Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Alternative spelling: Bhimaites
Full reference: T. Matsumoto. 1954. Family Puzosiidae from Hokkaido and Saghalien : Studies on the Cretaceous Ammonoidea from Hokkaido and Saghalien-V. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, Series D, Geology 5(2):69-118
Parent taxon: Puzosia according to J. P. Gautam et al. 2019
See also El Qot 2018, Matsumoto 1954, Sepkoski 2002, Wild and Stilwell 2016 and Wright and Kennedy 1984
Sister taxa: Puzosia (Anapuzosia), Puzosia (Latidorsella), Puzosia (Puzosia), Puzosia alaskana, Puzosia aldersona, Puzosia ambigua, Puzosia angladei, Puzosia bistricta, Puzosia brasiliana, Puzosia crebrisulcata, Puzosia cuvervillei, Puzosia diadema, Puzosia hoffmanni, Puzosia intermedia, Puzosia lata, Puzosia longmani, Puzosia media, Puzosia nipponica, Puzosia nolani, Puzosia octosulcata, Puzosia puma, Puzosia quenstedti, Puzosia skidegatensis, Puzosia spathi, Puzosia subquadrata, Puzosia sullivanae, Puzosia tenuis
Subtaxa: Puzosia (Bhimaites) bhima Puzosia (Bhimaites) stoliczkai
Type: Ammonites bhima
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Egypt (2 collections), India (2), Indian Ocean (1), North Atlantic (1), United States (1: California), Venezuela (2)
Total: 9 collections each including a single occurrence