Hamites

Translingual

Etymology

From Latin hāmitēs (“hooked”), from hāmus (“hook”) + -ites. Named by James Parkinson in Organic Remains of the Former World (1811), after the hook-like shape of the fossils.

Proper noun

†Hamites m

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Hamitidae – a paraphyletic grouping of Cretaceous heteromorph ammonites.

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English

Noun

Hamites

  1. plural of Hamite

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