Ammonites

He spent his days collecting, researching, preparing and meticulously cataloguing so many ammonites and buying specimens from professional collectors, that he had to put bricks under his floor boards to reinforce them.

The reef teemed with animals that snorkelers would recognize today—fish, crabs, sea urchins, snails, clams and oysters—but also now-extinct ammonites, which are essentially squid with external shells.

A mid-Carboniferous drop in sea level precipitated a major marine extinction, one that hit crinoids and ammonites especially hard.

During the Exodus, the Israelites were prohibited by the Ammonites from passing through their lands.

Hooke made the point that some fossils were no longer living, for example Ammonites : this was the source of Ray's concern.

In order to carry out this project, the Hasmoneans forcibly converted one-time Moabites, Edomites, and Ammonites to Judaism, as well as the lost kingdom of Israel.

It then describes Saul as leading a war against the Ammonites, being chosen by the people to be king, and leading them against the Philistines.

It was accounted a land of giants; and that giants formerly dwelt in it, whom the Ammonites called "Zomzommims".

Saul leads the army to victory over the Ammonites, and the people congregate at Gilgal where they acclaim Saul as king and he is crowned.

The Ammonites soon allied themselves with Eglon of Moab in attacking Israel.

The people of this kingdom are called "Children of Ammon" or "Ammonites".