Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Alternative spellings: Ancyloceras (Hamites), Anisoceras (Hamites)
Parent taxon: Hamitidae according to M. Matsukawa 2021
See also Arkadiev et al. 2000, Cooper and Kennedy 1979, Förster 1975, Henderson 1990, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy 1995, Kennedy 2005, Kennedy and Cobban 1990, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Latil 2007, Kennedy and Morris 2018, Meek and Hayden 1858, Sepkoski 2002, Szives 2007 and Whitehouse 1926
Sister taxa: Hamitella, Helicohamites, Hemiptychoceras, Lytohamites, Metaptychoceras, Pictetia, Planohamites, Puebloites, Scaphamites, Stomohamites, Torneutoceras
Subtaxa: Hamites (Hamites) Hamites (Psilohamites) Hamites alternatus Hamites angolensis Hamites armatus Hamites attenuatus Hamites attenuatus Hamites carrancoi Hamites cimarronensis Hamites csaszari Hamites cylindraceus Hamites duplicatus Hamites elegans Hamites fueloepi Hamites gibbosus Hamites imitator Hamites intermedius Hamites kalvariensis Hamites maximus Hamites nokonis Hamites praegibbosus Hamites quadrinodosus Hamites rotundatus Hamites rotundus Hamites salebrosus Hamites simplex Hamites subcompressum Hamites subvirgulatus Hamites tenuis Hamites tropicalis Hamites undulatus Hamites venetzianus
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (7 collections), Antarctica (1), Australia (3), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Chile (1), Colombia (23), Egypt (1), France (31), Germany (6), Hungary (1), India (1), Japan (5), Madagascar (2), Mexico (6), Mozambique (1), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (1), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (3), South Africa (2), Switzerland (2), Tanzania (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (18: Arizona, California, Colorado, Mississippi, Montana, New Mexico, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 127 collections including 160 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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