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A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal.…

One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon. C. Kingsley.

Containing fossil ammonites.

An extensive group of fossil cephalopods often very abundant in Mesozoic rocks. See Ammonite.

One of a pair of shelly plates found in some cephalopods, as the ammonites.

A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.

= 1st Ammonite, 2.

the extinct genus Baculites, found fossil in the Cretaceous rocks. It is like an uncoiled ammonite.

A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite.

good land that is beyond Jordan. Deut. iii. 25. Ishmael . . . departed to go over to the Ammonites. Jer. xli. 10.

One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic.

A fossil cephalopod of the genus Hamites, related to the ammonites, but having the last whorl bent into a hooklike form.

Any species of ammonites of the genus Lituites. They are found in the Cretaceous formation.

A mammonite.

The fire god of the Ammonites, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Moloch. Lev. xviii. 21.

The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively.

An ammonite.

he American plains, or prairies. Descending fro the mountain into playn. Chaucer. Him the Ammonite Worshiped in Rabba and her watery plain. Milton.

The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods.

ork situated in and commanding a ditch. [Written also ramshorn.] Farrow. (b) (Paleon.) An ammonite.