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("chambered horn") is a genus of extinct, giant orthoconic cephalopod that lived mainly during the Ordovician period. It first appears during the middle Ordovician, around 470 million years ago, and was a fairly common component of the fauna in some places during the period, inhabiting the shallow seas of Laurentia, Baltica and Siberia. Its diversity and abundance became severely reduced following the Ordovician–Silurian extinction events, and the last remnants of the genus went extinct sometime during the Wenlock.
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Can you imagine diving into the ocean, and there's just giant flying sea shells.
How fast do they move is even weirder to imagine. You just swim beside them, and them they just *WHAP* knock you out of the way with their shell.
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Nice! Very pleasingly minimal. Good choice of creature. I looked it up. 20 to 30 feet long! What?
I'm just trying to imagine a giant thing like that floating around! Would they really swim like that?
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It was like a nautilus, used its large shell for buoyancy.
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