Cameroceras looked like a squid inside a thin ice cream cone. It could have probably torn up any prey with its tentacles and gotten to the soft parts inside, if the prey had armor. Cameroceras was a genus of giant orthocone. It was 17 feet, or possibly even larger. Its name means "chambered horn" because of the ring-shaped chambers it had along its shell, which probably helped it go up and down by holding air in to go up and letting it out to go down.
http://www.mpm.edu/collections/learn/reef/ ?
ReplyDeleteThere was a cool Dinosaur Train episode about this one, I think.
ReplyDelete@ FlavorDav The creatures in that picture are probably a member of Dawsonoceratidae, but I'm just guessing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawsonoceratidae
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