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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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