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(Top) 1 By type. Toggle By type subsection. 1.1 Land and avian animals. ... The following are lists of prehistoric animals: By type. Land and avian animals.
The heaviest known Old World monkey is the prehistoric baboon is Theropithecus oswaldi which have weighed 72 kg (159 lb), [224] some even suggested to reach 128 kg (282 lb). [225] A male specimen of Dinopithecus projected to weigh an average of 46 kg (101 lb) and up to 57 kg (126 lb), exceeds the maximum weight record of the chacma baboon , the ...
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Pterosaurs included the largest flying animals ever to have lived. They are a clade of prehistoric archosaurian reptiles closely related to dinosaurs. Species among pterosaurs occupied several types of environments, which ranged from aquatic to forested. Below are the lists that comprise the smallest and the largest pterosaurs known as of 2022.
The Lapitiguana is the largest iguana fossils. The extant members of genus Brachylophus are iguanas small and medium-sized, growing a length of 60–75 cm (24–30 in). ). Although, in the past there was a much larger member of this family – Brachylophus gibbonsi, reached in length of 1.2 m (3.9 ft), [citation needed] and thus, was 1.8 times longer than its modern re
[11] [12] The upper estimates of weight for these prehistoric animals would have easily rivaled or exceeded the largest rorquals and sauropods. [13] The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana) is the largest living land animal. A native of various open habitats in sub-Saharan Africa, males weigh about 6.0 tonnes (13,200 lb) on average. [14]
One of the coolest, most prehistoric-looking fish lives in Florida’s offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It happens to be one of the best to eat but also one of the most elusive.
This is an incomplete list of prehistoric mammals. It does not include extant mammals or recently extinct mammals . For extinct primate species, see: list of fossil primates .