Ammonite synonyms

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brachiopod (related)
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ammonoid
Any of various extinct cephalopods of the subclass Ammonoidea living from the Devonian to the Cretaceous Periods. Ammonoids had a symmetrical, coiled, chambered shell with angular sutures between the chambers. They are closely related to the nautiloids, including the modern-day chambered nautilus.
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belemnite (related)
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echinoid (related)
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belemnites (related)
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Asteroceras (related)
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trilobite (related)
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crinoid (related)
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ichthyosaur (related)
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bivalve (related)
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nautiloid (related)
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pyritised (related)
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Find another word for ammonite. In this page you can discover 12 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for ammonite, like: brachiopod, ammonoid, belemnite, echinoid, belemnites, Asteroceras, trilobite, crinoid, ichthyosaur, bivalve and nautiloid.
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  • Among the Hebrews, Yahweh, some of whose features associate him with thunder, lightning and storm, and with the gifts of the earth, has now become the national god, like the Moabite Chemosh or the Ammonite Milcolm.

  • It is a fossil ammonite - an extinct mollusk that floated through the seas in its coiled shell.

  • He showed that from each individual shell of an ammonite the entire ancestral series may be reconstructed, and that, while the earlier shell-whorls retain the characters of the adults of preceding members of the series, a shell in its own adult stage adds a new character, which in turn becomes the pre-adult character of the types which will succeed it; finally, that this comparison between the revolutions of the life of an individual and the life of the entire order of ammonites is wonderfully harmonious and precise.

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