Prehistoric Marine Animals List

Here are 10 of the scariest prehistoric sea monsters to ever call the ocean home in prehistory.

Prehistoric marine animals list. Plus science-minded entertainment sources like the Discovery Channel love creatures that. Shastasaurus the largest marine reptile species ever found was a variety of ichthyosaur. Genus Wania Wang 1995.

One thing that separates Plesiosaur from the other prehistoric marine reptiles is how it reproduced. 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. 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. Top Ten Marine Predators. Or Top 10 Sea Monsters if you prefer 10- Dunkleosteus.

Hyaenodon is a genus of large carnivorous mammals that lived from the Eocene to the mid Miocene epochs. Examples of Mesozoic Era animals include dinosaurs pterosaurs ammonites sharks plesiosaurs ichthyosaurs mosasaurs pseudosuchians insects and early mammals. - predators include the Shastasaurus a reptile 21 meters 68 feet long.

What was the biggest prehistoric water animal. 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. Marine biologists didnt know that fishermen off the coast of Africa had been occasionally catching them for years.

Geologist William Buckland described the animal as a sea serpent run through a turtle Leedsicthys. The remains of other animals missing limbs or bitten in half are a macabre proof of this giant caimans appetite. List of fossil primates.