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A Fair-sized ammonite attacks a small Pachypleurosaur. The smallest nothosaurs and Pachypleurosaurs were surely food for many other sea creatures, including the more voracious invertebrates. Photos exist of a 2.5 meter ammonite from a cretaceous outcropping that was sadly never collected and dissapeared due to erosion, so I'm sure this scene could have taken place with giant ammonites attacking large nothosaurs or placodonts, too.
I really wanted to draw an ammonite attacking something, these poor guys are always drawn being eaten by ichthyosaurs, pliosaurs, mosasaurs, turtles. I'm sure that the more mobile kinds of ammonite could be voracious predators, and the largest, Parapusozia, at an estimated 2.5 meters, would have likely been an octopus-like foraging predator.
I really wanted to draw an ammonite attacking something, these poor guys are always drawn being eaten by ichthyosaurs, pliosaurs, mosasaurs, turtles. I'm sure that the more mobile kinds of ammonite could be voracious predators, and the largest, Parapusozia, at an estimated 2.5 meters, would have likely been an octopus-like foraging predator.
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i do like these picture of giant ammonites attacking fist and marine reptiles, i do. however, im doubt that ammonites had the mouthparts to do it. all of the ammonoid beaks (also called aptychi, anaptychi, or rhyncolites) usually had blunt edges and may have been better suited to scooping seawater or sediment. that kind of beak suggests a more nautilus-like lifestyle than that of a kraken.