Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Parent taxon: Turrilitoidea according to W. J. Kennedy and N. J. Morris 2018
See also Arkadiev et al. 2000, Cooper and Kennedy 1979, Henderson 1990, Hoffmann et al. 2013, Kennedy 1994, Kennedy 2005, Kennedy and Cobban 1990, Kennedy et al. 2008, Kennedy and Latil 2007, Lehmann et al. 2016, Summesberger 1992, Szives 2007, Wild and Stilwell 2016, Wright 1952 and Wright 1979
Sister taxa: Anisoceratidae, Baculitidae, Diplomoceratidae, Nostoceratidae, Plesiohamites, Turrilitidae
Subtaxa: Hamitella Hamites Helicohamites Hemiptychoceras Lytohamites Metaptychoceras Pictetia Planohamites Puebloites Scaphamites Stomohamites Torneutoceras
Type: Hamites
Ecology: fast-moving nektonic carnivore
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Angola (10 collections), Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Australia (4), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Brazil (8), Canada (4: British Columbia), Chile (1), Colombia (23), Egypt (2), France (32), Germany (8), Hungary (1), India (1), Indian Ocean (1), Italy (1), Japan (8), Madagascar (7), Mexico (7), Mozambique (1), New Zealand (1), Nigeria (1), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (3), South Africa (2), Switzerland (4), Tanzania (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (19), United States (36: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Mississippi, Montana, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
Total: 194 collections including 248 occurrences