Prehistoric Marine Animals List

At 12-15 meters long maybe more it was one of the largest crocodilians ever to have existed.

Prehistoric marine animals list. Megalodon didnt earn its nickname Big Tooth for nothing. On this list youll find ten of the most interesting and largest prehistoric sea animals from the megalodon to the spinosaurus and the helicoprion. This was because it used to lay its jelly covered eggs in water.

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. 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. Top Ten Marine Predators.

The largest of these animals stretched up to 20 feet 6 meters long with the Tanystropheus 12-vertebrae neck comprising more than half of that sources. With a long skull and powerful doglike body it would have had little to fear from most other animals. These have been some fun facts about marine prehistoric animals.

Its hard to keep the idea of a shark the size of a school bus out of pop culture. The coelacanth is the best example of a living prehistoric creature we once thought extinct. The largest Hyaenodons were among the largest predators of their time.

Shastasaurus the largest marine reptile species ever found was a variety of ichthyosaur. Some other interesting - and terrifying. 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.

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. Here are ten of the largest most fearsome sea monsters ever to prowl the oceans. Elasmosaurus a 14 meters 45 feet reptile that swallowed stones whole or the Mosasaurus which looked like a 15 meter 50 feet crocodile.