Coconut Grab

The Coconut Grab, Nuctoceras litureperus, is an unusual acanthocertoid ammonite that crawls onto land to eat coconuts, similar to a robber crab, in The New Dinosaurs: An Alternative Evolution. It is found along the shorelines of tropical islands in Oceania and near Irian. A major predator of it is the shorerunner.

Scattered across the vast Pacific Ocean that covers almost half the globe, is a multitude of islands. These are not fragments of any continent, but have grown completely independently of Gondwana. They have appeared mainly through volcanic action, where an underwater volcano has reached the surface and cooled. The flanks of these islands are further extended by reefs built up by corals and other sea creatures. Belonging to no recognized zoogeographic realm, this array of islands is described here as part of the Australasian ecozone.