†Idiohamites pygmaeus Cooper and Kennedy 1979 (ammonite)
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Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Full reference: M. R. Cooper and W. J. Kennedy. 1979. Uppermost Albian (Stoliczkaia dispar zone) ammonites from the Angolan littoral. Annals of the South African Museum 77:175-308
Belongs to Idiohamites according to M. R. Cooper and W. J. Kennedy 1979
Sister taxa: Idiohamites bispinosus, Idiohamites elegantulus, Idiohamites fremonti, Idiohamites pulchellus, Idiohamites spiniger, Idiohamites subspiniger, Idiohamites tuberculatus
Type specimen: USNM 236942, a shell. Its type locality is Porto Amboim, which is in an Albian marine horizon in Angola.
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution: found only at Porto Amboim
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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