Prehistoric Marine Animals List

The Ichthyostega was an amphibian that from its appearance especially its head and tail looked exactly like a fish.

Prehistoric marine animals list. List of fossil primates. Purussaurus was the top predator in that sea and with good reason. - predators include the Shastasaurus a reptile 21 meters 68 feet long.

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 10 Prehistoric Sea Creatures Tylosaurus. Marine biologists didnt know that fishermen off the coast of Africa had been occasionally catching them for years.

A small oily fish of the Atlantic and Pacific providing food for many fish marine mammals and birds. In contrast modern African elephants are between 82 and 13 feet tall. Its hard to keep the idea of a shark the size of a school bus out of pop culture.

Hyaenodon is a genus of large carnivorous mammals that lived from the Eocene to the mid Miocene epochs. At 12-15 meters long maybe more it was one of the largest crocodilians ever to have existed. 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 largest Hyaenodons were among the largest predators of their time. Plus science-minded entertainment sources like the Discovery Channel love creatures that. The furry prehistoric animal known as the steppe mammoth was the largest elephant that ever lived.

Megalodon is probably the best-known creature in the list. Genus Paranictops Qiu 1977. Fossils of steppe mammoth up to 15 feet 45 meters in height and nine to 11 tons in weight have been found.