Ammonites Draw The Fossil

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Ammonites Draw The Fossil
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Class Work

• draw the fossil on one side
• On the other side of paper speculate on the
  organism that left the fossil
• sketch the imaginary view of the organism habitat
  using colored pencils
• write notes about history of the organism (what
  you think might have happened), predators, food
  source, present day relatives.

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Ammonites

• Fossils came from Germany
• Date back the Mesozoic Era, about 150 million
  years ago.
• They are cephalopod mollusks, related to
  octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish
• Their bodies occupied the largest section of
  their shell.

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Ammonites

• The smaller sections were filled with a gas that
  helped them maintain buoyancy in the water.
• They lived in the open ocean as predators, using
  their tentacles and rasping beaks to feed on
  small fish and crustaceans (shrimp, etc.)
• They were probably preyed upon by marine
  reptiles, sharks, and other larger fish.

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Related to Octopuses
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Squid
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Cuttlefish