ammonitologistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

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, 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, 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:

     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.”

関連する語

• ammonitology