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Definition of Ammonoids
1. ammonoid [n] - See also: ammonoid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ammonoids
Literary usage of Ammonoids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Biology: An Introduction to the Geological History of Organisms by Henry Shaler Williams (1895)
"The ammonoids Illustrate the Law of Acquirement of Differences by Gradual
Modification.—The ammonoids illustrate another of the laws of evolution in a ..."
2. An Introduction to Historical Geology: With Special Reference to North America by William John Miller (1916)
"ammonoids much like Jurassic though somewhat diminished and with straight forms
... ammonoids greatly advanced in numbers, species, and complexity of septa, ..."
3. Sketches and Reminiscences of the Radical Club of Chestnut Street, Boston by Mary Elizabeth Fiske Sargent (1880)
"... straight form of the Orthoceras, the course of the lecture was again turned
upward to trace the branching off of the ammonoids from the Nautiloids. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"As Hyatt states, ammonoids experienced a progressive evolution from the early
... ammonoids exist in great abundance in the rocks of this period in the ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"There are no known cases of degraded series of uncoiled forms among the ammonoids
of the earlier or paleozoic periods: they mav have occurred, but they must ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"In the majority of the ammonoids the septal necks are continued forwards from
the septa to which they belong, and such forms are t ..."
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