Prehistoric Marine Animals List

Fossils of steppe mammoth up to 15 feet 45 meters in height and nine to 11 tons in weight have been found.

Prehistoric marine animals list. Shastasaurus the largest marine reptile species ever found was a variety of ichthyosaur. 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. Elasmosaurus a 14 meters 45 feet reptile that swallowed stones whole or the Mosasaurus which looked like a 15 meter 50 feet crocodile.

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. A small oily fish of the Atlantic and Pacific providing food for many fish marine mammals and birds.

Family Pseudictopidae Sulimski 1969 Mingotheriidae Schoch 1985 Genus Anictops Qiu 1977. A bright-colored fish of coral reefs. Genus Cartictops Ding.

These have been some fun facts about marine prehistoric animals. Genus Wania Wang 1995. Ourfirst entry is actually the oldest animal on the list Dunkleosteuswas a placodermspecifically an arthrodire placoderm fish thatlived during the Devonian period when vertebrates were.

Hyaenodon is a genus of large carnivorous mammals that lived from the Eocene to the mid Miocene epochs. Here are ten of the largest most fearsome sea monsters ever to prowl the oceans. In contrast modern African elephants are between 82 and 13 feet tall.

Some of the earliest land animals happened to be spiders and insects. At 12-15 meters long maybe more it was one of the largest crocodilians ever to have existed. Purussaurus was the top predator in that sea and with good reason.