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Description: | Cadoceras is an ammonite that has a very rounded shape. This shape is quite unusual, as the shells of most ammonites are much flatter. Ammonites lived in the sea, and moved around by using a jet-propulsion system, which means that they squirted water out of their shells, to help them travel in the opposite direction. Ammonites were similar to the modern Nautilus that lives in the warm waters of the Pacific Ocean. They were eaten by large marine reptiles such as the dolphin-like ichthyosaurs, which were alive at the same time as the dinosaurs. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | fossils natural world | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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