"ammonitology" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1984, Edward T. Tozer, The Trias and Its Ammonoids The Evolution of a Time Scale, page 23:",
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          "text": "Ammonitology was a bastion of documentation during the heyday of recapitulation, and therefore became the great hunting ground for a claim about frequent paedomorphosis when fashions shifted.",
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          "text": "Since the early times of the Hungarian geology, a special attention was dedicated to the Jurassic biostratigraphy and ammonitology.",
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