Hamites

Noun

noun plural form

1. Plural of Hamite

Latin hamites "with a hook", from hāmus "hook" plus -ites.

Named by James Parkinson in Organic Remains of the Former World (1811), after the hook-like shape of the fossils.

Full definition of Hamites

Proper noun

1. A group of heteromorph ammonites of the Turrilitaceae superfamily, alive during the Cretaceous.