Prehistoric Marine Animals List

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.

Prehistoric marine animals list. Genus Paranictops Qiu 1977. 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. 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.

Here are ten of the largest most fearsome sea monsters ever to prowl the oceans. A prized species of tuna. In contrast modern African elephants are between 82 and 13 feet tall.

These have been some fun facts about marine prehistoric animals. But at 60 or so tons the middle Eocene Basilosaurus was certainly the biggest prehistoric whale that ever lived outweighing even the much later Leviathan which itself may have tangled with the biggest prehistoric shark of all time Megalodon by 10 or 20 tons. Shastasaurus the largest marine reptile species ever found was a variety of ichthyosaur.

Marine biologists didnt know that fishermen off the coast of Africa had been occasionally catching them for years. Not only was Megalodon the biggest prehistoric shark that ever lived. Purussaurus was the top predator in that sea and with good reason.

At 12-15 meters long maybe more it was one of the largest crocodilians ever to have existed. Geologist William Buckland described the animal as a sea serpent run through a turtle Leedsicthys. Family Pseudictopidae Sulimski 1969 Mingotheriidae Schoch 1985 Genus Anictops Qiu 1977.

Some other interesting - and terrifying. Or Top 10 Sea Monsters if you prefer 10- Dunkleosteus. Megalodon is probably the best-known creature in the list.