Idiohamites pygmaeus Cooper and Kennedy 1979 (ammonite)

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

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