Hamites angolensis Choffat 1888 (ammonite)

Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hamitidae

Full reference: P. Choffat. 1888. Description des fossiles crétaciques, mollusques, in Matériaux pour l'étude stratigraphique et paléontologique de la province d'Angola. Mémoires de la Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève 30(2):61-95

Belongs to Hamites according to P. Choffat 1905

See also Choffat 1888

Sister taxa: Hamites (Hamites), Hamites (Psilohamites), Hamites alternatus, Hamites attenuatus, Hamites attenuatus, Hamites beanii, Hamites carrancoi, Hamites cimarronensis, Hamites csaszari, Hamites cylindraceus, Hamites duplicatus, Hamites elegans, Hamites fueloepi, Hamites gibbosus, Hamites imitator, Hamites intermedius, Hamites kalvariensis, Hamites klamathensis, Hamites maximus, Hamites nokonis, Hamites praegibbosus, Hamites quadrinodosus, Hamites rotundatus, Hamites rotundus, Hamites salebrosus, Hamites simplex, Hamites siskiyouensis, Hamites subcompressum, Hamites subvirgulatus, Hamites tenuis, Hamites tropicalis, Hamites undulatus, Hamites venetzianus

Type specimen: Its type locality is Catumbella (Couches à Schloenbachia inflata), which is in an Albian carbonate limestone in the Cabo Ledo Formation of Angola

Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Angola (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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