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Pages in category "Prehistoric marine reptiles" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Following is a list of marine reptiles, reptiles which are adapted to life in marine or brackish environments. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items . ( August 2008 )
List of prehistoric chitons; List of prehistoric foraminifera genera; List of ichthyosaur genera; List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record; List of plesiosaur genera; List of prehistoric malacostracans; List of prehistoric medusozoan genera; List of prehistoric nautiloid genera; List of prehistoric ostracod genera; List of ...
Prehistoric marine reptiles (6 C, 15 P) T. Trilobozoa (8 P) Pages in category "Prehistoric marine animals" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total.
Marine reptiles are reptiles which have become secondarily adapted for an aquatic or semiaquatic life in a marine environment. Only about 100 of the 12,000 extant reptile species and subspecies are classed as marine reptiles, including marine iguanas , sea snakes , sea turtles and saltwater crocodiles .
A massive jawbone found by a father-daughter fossil-collecting duo on a beach in Somerset along the English coast belonged to a newfound species that’s likely the largest known marine reptile to ...
Ichthyosauria [a] is an order of large extinct marine reptiles sometimes referred to as "ichthyosaurs", although the term is also used for wider clades in which the order resides. Ichthyosaurians thrived during much of the Mesozoic era; based on fossil evidence, they first appeared around 250 million years ago ( Ma ) and at least one species ...
That would make it perhaps the largest-known marine reptile and would rival some of the largest baleen whales alive today. The blue whale, considered the largest animal ever on the planet, can ...