Prehistoric Marine Animals List

In contrast modern African elephants are between 82 and 13 feet tall.

Prehistoric marine animals list. Shastasaurus the largest marine reptile species ever found was a variety of ichthyosaur. Not only was Megalodon the biggest prehistoric shark that ever lived. Top Ten Marine Predators.

From what paleontologists can decipher of this reptiles remains the Tanystropheus appears to have been a prehistoric reptile version of a giraffe with shorter legs a long neck that juts out rather than up and a massive tail. A bright-colored fish of coral reefs. The coelacanth is the best example of a living prehistoric creature we once thought extinct.

Purussaurus was the top predator in that sea and with good reason. - predators include the Shastasaurus a reptile 21 meters 68 feet long. The furry prehistoric animal known as the steppe mammoth was the largest elephant that ever lived.

The ichthyosaurs were marine predators that looked like modern dolphins and could reach a massive size during the Triassic period over 200 million years ago. Geologist William Buckland described the animal as a sea serpent run through a turtle Leedsicthys. Examples of Mesozoic Era animals include dinosaurs pterosaurs ammonites sharks plesiosaurs ichthyosaurs mosasaurs pseudosuchians insects and early mammals.

The largest Hyaenodons were among the largest predators of their time. Some other interesting - and terrifying. List of fossil primates.

It lived back in Cambrian times first appearing over 500 million years ago and when fossils of it were first found the various disassociated parts of it were described as jellyfish the mouth shrimp tails large grasping appendages and a sponge the body. 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. 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.