ammonitologist

English

Etymology

From ammonite +‎ -ologist.

Noun

ammonitologist (plural ammonitologists)

  1. (paleontology) A paleobiologist or researcher specializing in the study of ammonites.
    • 1984, Edward T. Tozer, The Trias and Its Ammonoids The Evolution of a Time Scale‎[1], page 23:
      Arkell was a Jurassic ammonitologist with immense personal experience.
    • 1996, Cyprian Kulick, “Ammonoid Shell Microstructure”, in Kazushige Tanabe, Neil H. Landman, Richard Arnold Davis, editors, Ammonoid Paleobiology‎[2], page 95:
      However, a clearly distinctive element is the ammonitella, which is now the focus of attention of many ammonitologists.
    • 2021 January 31, Sabrina Imbler, “This Ammonite Was Fossilized Outside Its Shell”, in The New York Times‎[3]:
      René Hoffmann, an ammonitologist at the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany who reviewed the study, called the fossil a “paleontological jackpot you have only once in a lifetime.”
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