Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
Alternative spelling: Himalayitinae
Parent taxon: Perisphinctoidea according to S. Jain and G. Schweigert 2022
See also Boughdiri et al. 1999, Bulot et al. 2014, Frau et al. 2015, Frau et al. 2016, Frau et al. 2016, Garrido et al. 2018, Helmstaedt 1969, Imlay and Jones 1970, Klein 2005, Salazar and Stinnesbeck 2016, Shome et al. 2005, Vašíček and Skupien 2016, Verma and Westermann 1973 and Wright 1952
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Ardesciella Aulacosphinctes Corongoceras Dalmasiceratinae Djurjuriceras Durangites Hegaratites Hemispiticeras Himalayites Himalayitinae Parodontoceras Parrasiella Riasanella Tithopeltoceras Toucasiella Windhauseniceras
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Chile (3 collections), the Czech Republic (2), France (16), Georgia (1), Hungary (2), Iraq (3), Italy (1), Mexico (5), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (1), Ukraine (4), Yemen (4)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Argentina (1), Chile (6), Spain (1)
• Jurassic of Algeria (2), Argentina (37), Chile (12), China (1), Colombia (3), Cuba (15), the Czech Republic (2), Ethiopia (2), France (26), India (6), Iraq (3), Italy (3), Madagascar (3), Mexico (16), Nepal (1), Peru (11), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), Tunisia (3), United States (5: California), Yemen (2)
Total: 208 collections including 350 occurrences