ammonitologist

plural ammonitologists

1. biologyA paleobiologist or researcher specializing in the study of ammonites.

   Arkell was a Jurassic ammonitologist with immense personal experience.

   1984, Edward T. Tozer, The Trias and Its Ammonoids The Evolution of a Time Scale, page 23

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   However, a clearly distinctive element is the ammonitella, which is now the focus of attention of many ammonitologists.

   1996, Cyprian Kulick, “Ammonoid Shell Microstructure”, in Kazushige Tanabe, Neil H. Landman, Richard Arnold Davis, editors, Ammonoid Paleobiology, page 95

   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.”

   2021 January 31, Sabrina Imbler, “This Ammonite Was Fossilized Outside Its Shell”, in The New York Times