Prehistoric Marine Animals List

Genus Wania Wang 1995.

Prehistoric marine animals list. These have been some fun facts about marine prehistoric animals. Some of the earliest land animals happened to be spiders and insects. 10 Strange Animals You Didnt Know Existed.

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. Top 10 Prehistoric Sea Creatures Tylosaurus. Megalodon is probably the best-known creature in the list.

The furry prehistoric animal known as the steppe mammoth was the largest elephant that ever lived. List of fossil primates. Or Top 10 Sea Monsters if you prefer 10- Dunkleosteus.

Family Pseudictopidae Sulimski 1969 Mingotheriidae Schoch 1985 Genus Anictops Qiu 1977. They gave birth to live young which means they may have been warm-blooded. Shastasaurus the largest marine reptile species ever found was a variety of ichthyosaur.

Examples of Mesozoic Era animals include dinosaurs pterosaurs ammonites sharks plesiosaurs ichthyosaurs mosasaurs pseudosuchians insects and early mammals. Hyaenodon is a genus of large carnivorous mammals that lived from the Eocene to the mid Miocene epochs. 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.

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. 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. A bright-colored fish of coral reefs.