Extinct mollusks

Usage examples of ammonites.

Closely allied to the ammonites were the belemnites, smaller straight-shelled cephalopods more closely related to modern squid.

Mollusks hunted ammonites, boring through shells, poisoning prey animals, and firing deadly darts.

And as she descended she was battered by debris, helpless ammonites, clams, squid, even rocks torn from the floor.

It was littered with clams, crustaceans, squid, fish, ammonites of all sizes, all of them drowning in the air.

Three immense ammonites, probably several feet in diameter, hung suspended in the clear water.

The most spectacular of Cretaceous mollusks were the ammonites, chambered cephalopods related to the modern pearly nautilus and, more distantly, to squid and octopus.

The distinguishing characteristic of all ammonites was the complex suture pattern formed by the meeting of the growth chamber walls with the outside shell.

In addition, many ammonites were ornamented with regularly placed bumps and nodes.

Inoceramid clams and ammonites are especially common in some layers of the Pierre.

Especially useful are the ammonites, an extinct, shelled relative of modern octopus, squid, and the chambered nautilus.

At or near the end of the Cretaceous the ammonites, like the ancient dinosaurs, became extinct.

In the days when Saul had smitten the besieging Ammonites and freed the city of Jabesh-Gilead, bone-weary men had raised their voices in psalms to the glory of Yahweh and Saul.

Though a queen as well as a Siren before she had married Saul, she was used to this poor little desert kingdom without fixed boundaries, and many times she had fled with her household before the advance of Philistines, Ammonites, or Moabites and lived for weeks on lizards and manna.

Within two years he put him on the Ammonites, a big collection having been received from Europe at that time.

All the ammonites vanished, but their cousins the nautiloids, who lived similar lifestyles, swam on.