The closest living relative of the ammonite is the chambered nautilus.    From Wordnik.com.  [billingsgazette.com] Reference

The ammonite sank again, carrying the tax collector with it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

What you see there are actually the internal parts of ammonite (ph) shells.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2004] Reference

Far below was a tentacled ammonite whose shell was the size of a farmhouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

So whenever one of us finds an ammonite, we are reminded of Hilda and her great works.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Women I Adore - Installment 3: Hilda of Whitby] Reference

“Yes,” said Peter, fiddling with the fossil ammonite that the Doctor used for a paper-weight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Railway Children] Reference

Threefingers hadn't signaled with the ammonite-shell horn, though it rested on the frames beside him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

Not with a window display consisting of a skeletal, balsa Triceratops, some bryozoans and half an ammonite.    From Wordnik.com.  [August 14th, 2005] Reference

A huge ammonite rose, its body concealed within a curled shell with all the shimmering colors of a fire opal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

Upper Kimmeridgian ammonite faunas of the Wash area and a subzonal scheme for the lower part of the Upper Kimmeridgian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorset and East Devon Coast, United Kingdom] Reference

Next time you pick up a leaflet about Mr Wood's Fossils the main image will be my photo of a rather wonderful ammonite lagerstätte.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

Greece and Asia Minor, constitutes a well-marked geological horizon by its regular stratification and its characteristic ammonite fossils.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference

A slab containing many specimens of the Jurassic ammonite.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

The ammonite stem branched into a most luxuriant variety of forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Geology] Reference

Baculites, a straight-shelled form of ammonite, flourished in the seas.    From Wordnik.com.  [1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)] Reference

Forerunners of the great ammonite family of cephalopod mollusks now appear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Geology] Reference

They reveal the mouthparts of three ammonite specimens discovered in Belle Fourche, South.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

"Yes," said Peter, fiddling with the fossil ammonite that the Doctor used for a paper-weight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Railway Children] Reference

I have not yet observed either an ammonite or nautilus, though they occur sparingly in the eocene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference

"What's happened?" said the vicar, putting the ammonite on the loose sheets of his forth-coming sermon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invisible Man] Reference

There was Mr.H. of the Linnean Society, whose waxed moustache curled round upon itself like an ammonite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alone] Reference

I saw all types of fossils - ammonite, root fossils, antropods - the whole place used to be covered by the ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com Recent Updates] Reference

It was an ammonite nodosus, corroded at the ends but weighing quite six pounds; and in his enthusiasm Pécuchet exclaimed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life] Reference

ammonite: 'The ammonite looks like it would be related to spiral-shelled creatures, but have I got a whopper of a surprise for you!.    From Wordnik.com.  [IGN Complete] Reference

Saligram or ammonite representing Vishnu is performed and all these vegetables are offered to her and afterwards generally consumed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala] Reference

The day of the ammonite and the belemnite also now drew to a close, and only a few of these cephalopods were left to survive the period.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Geology] Reference

” said the vicar, putting the ammonite on the loose sheets of his forthcoming sermon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Cuss Interviews the Stranger] Reference

(ammonite) crest, that bears the mystery of the Tetragrammaton upon its upturned front.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference

Current Mood: ammonite.    From Wordnik.com.  [mordicai: crown me king!] Reference

The ammonite manhole cover, India Point.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Confessions of sleep, the awakening seed."] Reference

The ammonite manhole cover is wonderful.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Confessions of sleep, the awakening seed."] Reference

A wee ammonite, I remember.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Judge] Reference

The nautilus and the ammonite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library] Reference

And the ammonite was no more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Every Child Should Know The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library] Reference