Hercoglossidae

Hercoglossidae is a family of nautilid cephalopods in the superfamily Nautilaceae. It was established by Spath in 1927 for smooth, involute nautiloids characterized by a suture with differentiated elements, known from the Upper Jurassic to the Oligocene.

Hercoglossidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NautiloideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Nautilida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Nautilida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Nautilida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Cephalopoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Cephalopoda

Time the record covers

At least 73 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 2 of 343 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 23 of 343 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 163 of 343 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 152 of 343 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 343 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 343 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–102 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 1 occurrence82–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 6 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 37 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 74 occurrences62–59 Mya — about 30 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 25 occurrences56–53 Mya — about 21 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 21 occurrences50–47 Mya — about 22 occurrences47–44 Mya — about 24 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 24 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 25 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 12 occurrences36–33 Mya — about 3 occurrences30–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences100.5 Mya27.3 Mya108 Mya21 Mya

343 occurrences of Hercoglossidae on record, most of them in the Paleocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

343 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

78 formations

Clayton — 30.71°N, 84.86°WClayton — 31.90°N, 87.07°WClayton — 32.08°N, 87.33°WClayton — 31.89°N, 84.80°WClayton — 32.21°N, 87.48°WClayton — 31.93°N, 86.68°WClayton — 31.95°N, 86.71°WClayton — 31.99°N, 87.07°WClayton — 31.98°N, 87.22°WClayton — 32.11°N, 87.42°WClayton — 31.98°N, 86.97°WClayton — 33.40°N, 88.83°WClayton — 33.17°N, 88.71°WClayton — 33.47°N, 88.91°WClayton — 32.28°N, 86.61°WClayton — 32.29°N, 87.77°WClayton — 34.65°N, 92.43°WLondon Clay — 50.83°N, 0.78°WLondon Clay — 50.89°N, 1.28°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.54°N, 0.16°WLondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.90°ELondon Clay — 51.58°N, 0.15°WLondon Clay — 51.49°N, 0.31°WLondon Clay — 51.29°N, 1.05°WLondon Clay — 51.28°N, 0.99°WLondon Clay — 51.63°N, 0.16°WLondon Clay — 51.94°N, 1.27°ELondon Clay — 51.43°N, 0.80°EDaban — 10.33°N, 45.22°EAuradu — 10.38°N, 45.17°EAuradu — 10.47°N, 45.42°EAuradu — 10.43°N, 45.65°EAuradu — 10.03°N, 46.35°EAuradu — 10.15°N, 46.47°EAuradu — 9.88°N, 46.47°EKincaid — 29.16°N, 99.60°WKincaid — 33.00°N, 95.94°WKincaid — 32.42°N, 96.19°WKincaid — 29.75°N, 97.87°WKincaid — 28.39°N, 100.26°WKincaid — 28.45°N, 100.25°WKincaid — 30.05°N, 97.61°WKincaid — 28.46°N, 100.19°WKincaid — 31.29°N, 96.72°WPorters Creek — 31.90°N, 86.88°WPorters Creek — 31.93°N, 87.02°WPorters Creek — 32.12°N, 87.26°WPorters Creek — 31.99°N, 87.29°WPorters Creek — 31.98°N, 87.13°WPorters Creek — 32.37°N, 88.04°WRoca — 37.67°S, 67.50°WRoca — 39.00°S, 67.53°WRoca — 42.00°S, 65.10°WRoca — 41.00°S, 69.25°WEwekoro — 6.92°N, 3.19°ELandana — 5.22°S, 12.14°ETeberemt — 16.97°N, 2.60°ETeberemt — 17.40°N, 0.43°ETeberemt — 16.67°N, 0.50°ETeberemt — 18.87°N, 0.25°WTeberemt — 18.87°N, 0.24°WPebble Point — 38.70°S, 143.18°EPebble Point — 37.75°S, 145.50°EWills Point — 31.75°N, 96.48°WWills Point — 30.27°N, 97.42°WWills Point — 32.13°N, 96.23°WDakhla — 25.33°N, 30.58°EDakhla — 25.73°N, 30.69°EDakhla — 25.86°N, 30.71°EDakhla — 26.52°N, 27.66°EDakhla — 25.90°N, 28.60°ESoldado — 10.08°N, 61.35°WSoldado — 10.29°N, 61.46°WSimsima — 25.07°N, 55.82°ESimsima — 25.05°N, 55.81°EGiralia Calcarenite — 22.67°S, 114.05°EGiralia Calcarenite — 22.60°S, 114.20°EWerillup — 33.74°S, 121.25°EWerillup — 33.79°S, 121.92°EWerillup — 34.83°S, 118.18°EWerillup — 35.02°S, 117.88°ELillebælt Clay — 55.60°N, 9.81°ENanjemoy — 38.40°N, 76.99°WLakhish — 31.91°N, 34.92°ENaredi — 23.57°N, 68.62°ENaredi — 23.65°N, 68.69°ENaredi — 23.53°N, 68.68°EHarudi — 23.58°N, 68.61°EHarudi — 23.52°N, 68.68°EBlanche Point — 35.25°S, 138.46°EBlanche Point — 35.27°S, 138.55°EBlanche Point — 34.42°S, 137.92°EOkinoshima — 32.69°N, 129.78°E

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The named rock units Hercoglossidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 54 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 91 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hercoglossidae and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Hercoglossidae and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

1,652 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 289 sites for Hercoglossidae, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

92 references

Each of the 343 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 80 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Hercoglossidae

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No 3D scan of Hercoglossidae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Spath 1927)