Ammonites
Britishplural noun
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Ammonites were marine mollusks that somewhat resemble the present-day nautilus, although they were more closely related to squid and octopi.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 29, 2019
Those tuning in late will need to know that Jephtha has been recalled from exile to lead the Israelites into battle against the harassing, idolatrous Ammonites.
From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2017
Ammonites, coil-shelled cephalopods that bobbed through Mesozoic seas for tens of millions of years, are often mentioned in the litany of lineages that died at the end of the Cretaceous.
From Slate • Feb. 7, 2013
Ammonites were an abundant marine organism that went extinct about the same time as the dinosaurs—roughly 65 million years ago.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 6, 2011
Goniatites, gō-ni-a-tī′tēz, n. a genus of fossil cephalopodous mollusca, kindred to the Ammonites.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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