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Type Words
Synonyms ammonoid
Type of fossil
Derivation ammonitic

Examples of ammonite

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In fact, the ammonite genus Hildoceras takes its scientific name from St. Hilda.
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An ammonite shell viewed in section, revealing the internal chambers and septa.
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Ammonite fossils have been discovered showing teeth marks, scars from attacks.
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The capitals topping the pilasters sported volutes in the shape of ammonite fossils.
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A Shaligrama constitutes a sacred pebble that often conceals ammonite fossils within.
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An ammonite used to resolve the biostratigraphy of the successions.
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Then, one day, he passed a Cardiff crystals shop and his eye was taken by a hunk of ammonite.
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Saturday, May 12 t Do you know an ammonite from a devil's toe nail?
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Size and function of ammonite aptychi in comparison with buccal masses of modem cephalopods.
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  • One of the coiled chambered fossil shells of extinct mollusks
  • (ammonitic) of or related to an order of fossil cephalopods
  • Ammonites, as they pertain specifically to the order Ammonitida, are an extinct group of marine animals belonging to the cephalopod subclass Ammonoidea. They are excellent index fossils, and it is often possible to link the rock layer in which they are found to specific geological time periods.
  • The Ammonite language is the extinct Canaanite language of the Ammonite people mentioned in the Bible, who used to live in modern-day Jordan, and after whom its capital Amman is named. ...
  • Ammonite is Nicola Griffith's first novel, it was published in 1992 (ISBN 0345378911). It won both the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) fiction, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for science fiction or fantasy that explores or expands our understanding of gender.
  • (Ammonites (Book of Mormon)) According to the Book of Mormon, the Ammonites were a group of Lamanites who had been converted to the Christian religion of the Nephites by the missionary efforts of Ammon and his brothers. ...
  • Ammon (Hebrew: u05E2u05B7u05DEu05BCu05D5u05B9u05DF, Modernu00A0Ammon, Tiberianu00A0u02BBAmmu00F4nu00A0; "People"; Arabic: u0639u0645u0651u0648u0646u200E, translit.u00A0u02BBAmmu016Bnu200E) was an Iron Age Semitic-speaking nation occupying the east of the Jordan River, between the torrent valleys of Arnon and Jabbok, in present-day Jordan. The chief city of the country was Rabbah or Rabbath Ammon, site of the modern city of Amman, Jordan's capital...
  • An explosive prepared from ammonium nitrate; amatol; Any of an extinct group of cephalopods of the subfamily Ammonoidea; a fossil shell of such an animal
  • (AMMONITES) A group of fossil, spiral, chambered shells, allied to the existing pearly Nautilus, but having the partitions between the chambers waved in complicated patterns at their junction with the outer wall of the shell.