Prehistoric Marine Animals List

Top Ten Marine Predators.

Prehistoric marine animals list. 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. One thing that separates Plesiosaur from the other prehistoric marine reptiles is how it reproduced. Top 10 Prehistoric Sea Creatures Tylosaurus.

Here are ten of the largest most fearsome sea monsters ever to prowl the oceans. The furry prehistoric animal known as the steppe mammoth was the largest elephant that ever lived. This was because it used to lay its jelly covered eggs in water.

A prized species of tuna. Genus Wania Wang 1995. From here you will have entries for the dinosaurs but also other creatures of the Mesozoic like the pterosaurs early mammals ancient crocodiles and the first birds Other index entries will be for the mammals that became the dominant life forms of the planet after the dinosaurs with entries from the sabre toothed cats to the first whales You will even find entries for animals that are prehistoric but.

It appeared in the oceans of the world about 360 million years ago during the Upper Devonian period and died out almost at the same time as the dinosaurs pterosaurs and marine reptiles at the end of the Cretaceous period. Some other interesting - and terrifying. Genus Cartictops Ding.

List of fossil primates. With a long skull and powerful doglike body it would have had little to fear from most other animals. Megalodon didnt earn its nickname Big Tooth for nothing.

Shastasaurus the largest marine reptile species ever found was a variety of ichthyosaur. They gave birth to live young which means they may have been warm-blooded. Or Top 10 Sea Monsters if you prefer 10- Dunkleosteus.