Ammonites are an extinct group of marine animals (subclass Ammonoidea) in the phylum Mollusca and class Cephalopoda. Their closest living relative is probably not the modern Nautilus, whom they resemble, but rather the Subclass Coleoidea (octopus, squid, and cuttlefish). Their fossil shells take the form of flat spirals (though there are some rarer helically spiraled and non-spiraled forms, called heteromorphs) and are responsible for the animals' name as they somewhat resemble a tightly coiled ram's horn (the god Ammon was com ...

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Because ammonites and their close relatives are extinct, little is known about their way of life. Their soft body parts are practically never preserved in any detail. Nonetheless, a lot has been worked out by examining ammonite shells and by using models of these shells in water tanks. Many ammonites probably lived in the open water of ancient seas, rather than at the sea bottom; this is suggested by the fact that their fossils are often found in rocks that were laid down under conditions where no benthic (bottom-dwelling) life is fou ...

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The Ammonite language is the extinct Hebrew Canaanite language of the Ammonite people mentioned in the Bible, who used to live in modern-day Jordan, and after whom its capital Amman is named. Only fragments of their language survive - chiefly the 9th century BC Amman Citadel Inscription, the 7th-6th century BC Tell Siran bronze bottle, and a few ostraca. As far as can be determined from this small corpus, it was extremely similar to Biblical Hebrew, with some possible Aramaic influence including the use of ‘bd instead of comm ...

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Originating from within the bactritoid nautiloids, Ammonites first appeared in the Late Silurian to Early Devonian (~400 million years ago) and became extinct at the close of the Cretaceous along with the dinosaurs (65 million years ago). The classification of ammonites is based in part on the ornamentation and structure of the septa comprising their shells' gas chambers; by these and other characteristics we can divide this subclass into three orders and eight known suborders. While nearly all nautiloids show gently curving sutures, the amm ...

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Nahash - serpent. (1.) King of the Ammonites in the time of Saul. The inhabitants of Jabesh-Gilead having been exposed to great danger from Nahash, sent messengers to Gibeah to inform Saul of their extremity. He promptly responded to the call, and gathering together an army he marched against Nahash. "And it came to pass that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them [the Ammonit ...

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Ammonite - Basic shell anatomy. The chambered part of the ammonite shell is called a phragmocone. The phragmocone contains a series of progressively larger chambers, called camerae (sing. camera) that are divided by thin walls called septa (sing. septum). Only the last and largest chamber, the body chamber, was occupied by the living animal at any given moment. As it grew, it adde ...

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In medieval times, ammonites were believed to be petrified snakes. They were frequently fitted with carved snake-like heads and sold to pilgrims. A famous example of this links the ammonite fossils common in the Jurassic sediments around Whitby, North Yorkshire with the legend that St. Hilda turned a plague of snakes into stone. Even today, tourists can buy ammonite fossils with heads carved onto them to make them look more snake-like. It is said that the original discus used by the ancient Greeks in their Olympics was in fact a fossilized ammonite; a number of ammonite generic names include an explicit reference to the discus ...

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Zelek (ze'-lek), an Ammonite; one of King David’s men Reference: “2 Samuel 23:37”. “1 Chronicles 11:39” Meaning: cleft Other related archives

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Originating from within the bactritoid nautiloids, Ammonites first appeared in the Late Silurian to Early Devonian (~400 million years ago) and became extinct at the close of the Cretaceous along with the dinosaurs (65 million years ago). The classification of ammonites is based in part on the ornamentation and structure of the septa comprising their shells' gas chambers; by these and other characteristics we can divide this subclass into three orders and eight known suborders. While nearly all nautiloids show gently curving sutures, the ammonite suture line (the intersection of the septum with the outer shell) was folded, forming ...

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Camerae (sing. Camera) are the spaces or chambers enclosed between two adjacent septa in the phragmocone of a nautiloid or ammonoid cephalopod. These can be seen in cross-sections of a nautilus shell and in the polished cross-sections of ammonites. In life these chambers are filled with gas, mediated by the siphuncle, and used to control buoyancy. Some Palaeozoic nautiloid genera, especially those with long, straight shells, are distinguished by Cameral Deposits. These were accumulations of calcium carbonate secreted in ...

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Ammon or Ammonites (עַמּוֹן "People", Standard Hebrew ʻAmmon, Tiberian Hebrew ʻAmmôn), also referred to in the Bible as the "children of Ammon," were a people living east of the Jordan river, who along with the Moabites traced their origin to Lot, the nephew of the patriarch Abraham, and who were regarded as close relatives of the Israelites and Edomites. Ammon - Territory. The borders of the Ammonite territory are not clearly defined in the Bible. In Judges xi. 13, the ...

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The Zamzummim were a race of giants in Hebrew mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. They are described as having been a powerful people, populous and having a successful kingdom. They were defeated in the War of the Kings along with other Biblical giants such as the Rephaim, the Emim and the Horim. Sometimes the Zamzummim are referred to as Zumim. In Hebrew, "Zamzummim" (used by the Ammonites) literally translates into "Buzz-Buzzers", or "the people whos speech sounds like buzzing." The area of Moab at Ar, (the region East of the Jord

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Image:Shaligrama.jpg The Saligrama or Shaligrama is the most sacred stone worshipped by Vaishnavas and is worshipped as a from of Lord Vishnu. Use of the shaligrama is similar to the use of lingam, a form of Shiva. The stone resembles an ammonite fossil, and is found only in the river Gandaki (near Muktinath) in Nepal. According to Hindu tradition this stone is the shelter for a small insect known as vajra-keeta that cuts through the shaligrama stone and stays inside it. There are many different types of saligrama sila, each differentiated as a different for ...

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Barakhel or Barakel ("blessed by El") was a king of Ammon in the 670s BCE. He is known from a small (15.9x16.9 mm) black clay bulla bearing his seal impression. A groove and several dots around the impression demonstrate that the seal likely took the form of a metal ring. Fingerprints found around the edge of the bulla may belong to Barakel himself. His name, which invokes the name of the god El (as do the names of his fellow Ammonite kings Pado'el and Barakel suggests that El was worshipped in Ammon alo ...

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all extinct Baculites ("walking stick rock") is a genus of extinct marine animals in the phylum Mollusca and class Cephalopoda. They are a nearly straight-shelled type of heteromorph ammonite that lived worldwide throughout the Late Cretaceous period. The genus was named by the French paleontologist Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny in 1850. Baculites grew up to two meters long and are thought to have lived in a vertical orientation with the head hanging straight down. As there is no counterweight to the head at the ape ...

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Aulacocerida Phragmoteuthida Belemnitida Diplobelida Belemnoteuthina Belemnites (or belemnoids) are an extinct group of marine cephalopod, very similar in many ways to the modern squid and closely related to the modern cuttlefish. Like them, the belemnites possessed an ink sac and ten arms (or tentacles). Belemnites were numerous during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, and their fossils are abundant in Mesozoic marine rocks, often accompanying their cousins the ammonites. The belemnites become ...

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Ammolite is a rare and valuable opal-like organic gemstone found primarily along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains of the United States and Canada. It is made of the fossilized shells of ammonites, which in turn are composed primarily of aragonite, the same mineral that makes up nacreous pearls. It is one of the three biogenic gemstones, the other two being amber and pearl.1 In 1981, ammolite was given official gemstone status by the World Jewellery Confederation, the same year commercial mining of ammolite began. In 2004 it was designated th ...

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Rephaim is a general title that the Book of Joshua states was given to the aborigines of Palestine, which were afterwards conquered and dispossessed by the Canaanite tribes. They were known to the Moabites as Emim, i.e., "fearful", (Deut. 2:11), and to the Ammonites as Zamzummim. In the Books of Samuel, it states that some of them found refuge among the Philistines, and were still existing in the days of David. We know nothing of their origin. S ...

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During the Jurassic, the "highest" life forms living in the seas were fish and marine reptiles. The latter include ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and marine crocodiles of the families Teleosauridae and Metriorhynchidae. In the invertebrate world, several new groups appeared, such as: planktonic foraminifera and calpionelids, which are of great stratigraphic relevance; rudists, a reef-forming variety of bivalves; belemnites; and brachiopods of the terebratulid and rinchonelid groups. Ammonites (shelled cephalopods) wer ...

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