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Predator and Prey in The Bearpaw Sea
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Crabs, lobsters, cuttlefish, turtles and ammonites swam along
with beasts like the mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs, and ten-ton fish with 10 foot
jaws with hundreds of teeth. They thrived in an ocean rich with plankton
due to the abundant fresh water that flowed into it from the Rockies as they
rose and the dinosaurs made their brief appearance on the lands. |
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22" Mosasaur jaw
that could crush an Ammonite like a peanut shell.
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| It is in dispute whether or
not mosasaurs or other marine reptiles ate ammonites. Some believe that the
circular marks found on ammonite fossils were made by limpids, a barnacle
like parasite that may have attached itself to the shell of the ammonite and,
with the help of gastric acids, bore in for a meal. |
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