Prehistoric Marine Animals List

Elasmosaurus a 14 meters 45 feet reptile that swallowed stones whole or the Mosasaurus which looked like a 15 meter 50 feet crocodile.

Prehistoric marine animals list. At 12-15 meters long maybe more it was one of the largest crocodilians ever to have existed. Or Top 10 Sea Monsters if you prefer 10- Dunkleosteus. The remains of other animals missing limbs or bitten in half are a macabre proof of this giant caimans appetite.

Fossils of steppe mammoth up to 15 feet 45 meters in height and nine to 11 tons in weight have been found. The furry prehistoric animal known as the steppe mammoth was the largest elephant that ever lived. Plus science-minded entertainment sources like the Discovery Channel love creatures that.

The Coelacanth is a huge prehistoric fish that can measure nearly 6 feet long and weigh around 200 pounds and which lived around the same time as the dinosaurs. Today the most dangerous creatures in the sea are sharks along with the some whales and fish--but that wasnt the case tens of millions of years ago when the oceans were dominated by pliosaurs ichthyosaurs mosasaurs and the occasional snake turtle and crocodile. Genus Paranictops Qiu 1977.

Megalodon didnt earn its nickname Big Tooth for nothing. Shastasaurus the largest marine reptile species ever found was a variety of ichthyosaur. What was the biggest prehistoric water animal.

Family Pseudictopidae Sulimski 1969 Mingotheriidae Schoch 1985 Genus Anictops Qiu 1977. Examples of Mesozoic Era animals include dinosaurs pterosaurs ammonites sharks plesiosaurs ichthyosaurs mosasaurs pseudosuchians insects and early mammals. This six-foot fish was known from the fossil record but thought to die out 65 million years ago around the same time as the dinosaurs.

In contrast modern African elephants are between 82 and 13 feet tall. It was the largest predatory marine creature in the history of the planet outweighing both modern Great White Sharks and ancient reptiles like Liopleurodon and Kronosaurus. Genus Wania Wang 1995.