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<p>[QUOTE="randygeki, post: 1941296, member: 13719"]Another cross over into ancient coins, kind of</p><p><br /></p><p>"<i>The name "ammonite", from which the scientific term is derived, was inspired by the spiral shape of their fossilized shells, which somewhat resemble tightly coiled <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_(sheep)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_(sheep)" rel="nofollow">rams</a>' horns. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" rel="nofollow">Pliny the Elder</a> (d. 79 AD near Pompeii) called fossils of these animals ammonis cornua ("horns of Ammon") because the Egyptian god Ammon (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun" rel="nofollow">Amun</a>) was typically depicted wearing ram's horns.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonoidea#cite_note-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonoidea#cite_note-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> Often the name of an ammonite genus ends in -ceras, which is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" rel="nofollow">Greek</a> (κέρας) for "horn"</i>."</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]336919[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]336920[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]336921[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="randygeki, post: 1941296, member: 13719"]Another cross over into ancient coins, kind of "[I]The name "ammonite", from which the scientific term is derived, was inspired by the spiral shape of their fossilized shells, which somewhat resemble tightly coiled [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_(sheep)']rams[/URL]' horns. [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder']Pliny the Elder[/URL] (d. 79 AD near Pompeii) called fossils of these animals ammonis cornua ("horns of Ammon") because the Egyptian god Ammon ([URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun']Amun[/URL]) was typically depicted wearing ram's horns.[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonoidea#cite_note-1'][1][/URL] Often the name of an ammonite genus ends in -ceras, which is [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language']Greek[/URL] (κέρας) for "horn"[/I]." [ATTACH=full]336919[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]336920[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]336921[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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