Prehistoric Marine Animals List

On this list youll find ten of the most interesting and largest prehistoric sea animals from the megalodon to the spinosaurus and the helicoprion.

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. 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. Megalodon didnt earn its nickname Big Tooth for nothing.

- predators include the Shastasaurus a reptile 21 meters 68 feet long. Plus science-minded entertainment sources like the Discovery Channel love creatures that. Genus Cartictops Ding.

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. 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. With a long skull and powerful doglike body it would have had little to fear from most other animals.

Genus Paranictops Qiu 1977. Megalodon is probably the best-known creature in the list. The largest Hyaenodons were among the largest predators of their time.

A small oily fish of the Atlantic and Pacific providing food for many fish marine mammals and birds. Not only was Megalodon the biggest prehistoric shark that ever lived. In contrast modern African elephants are between 82 and 13 feet tall.

These have been some fun facts about marine prehistoric animals. Purussaurus was the top predator in that sea and with good reason. Megalodon is probably the best-known creature in the list.