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Description
Prehistoric World Creature File 47
Name: Nautilus Belauensis
Diet: Crustaceavore
Habitat: Indo-Pacific Ocean/Coral Reef 220 Million Years B.C to present day
Current Park Population: 2 females
The Nautilus is a cephalopod the lives at deep cliffs of coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. It is one of the many living fossils that roam the world today, the Nautilus had survived, and had gone unchanged since the Triassic period. It is a living relative of the prehistoric Ammonites, a genus of cephalopods that have a coiled shell and have several tentacles that had live for more than 500 million years. They are a small species, only at an average of 10 inches in length. They mostly eat crustaceans, such as lobsters and hermit craps, but they will eat carrion when available. This makes the Nautilus one of the living survivors of Prehistoric World.

Description
Prehistoric World Creature File 47
Name: Nautilus Belauensis
Diet: Crustaceavore
Habitat: Indo-Pacific Ocean/Coral Reef 220 Million Years B.C to present day
Current Park Population: 2 females
The Nautilus is a cephalopod the lives at deep cliffs of coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. It is one of the many living fossils that roam the world today, the Nautilus had survived, and had gone unchanged since the Triassic period. It is a living relative of the prehistoric Ammonites, a genus of cephalopods that have a coiled shell and have several tentacles that had live for more than 500 million years. They are a small species, only at an average of 10 inches in length. They mostly eat crustaceans, such as lobsters and hermit craps, but they will eat carrion when available. This makes the Nautilus one of the living survivors of Prehistoric World.