List of marine reptiles
Following is a list of marine reptiles, reptiles which are adapted to life in marine or brackish environments.
Extant
The following marine reptiles are species which are currently extant or recently extinct.[Crocodiles]
[Lizards]
[Snakes]
[Sea turtle]s
Extinct
From the Permian to the present day there have been numerous groups of extinct reptiles that adapted to life in the marine realm:[Mesosaurs]
- Mesosauridae: Early Permian
[Phytosaurs]
- Pseudopalatinae: Late Triassic
[Squamates]
- Dolichosauridae: Late Cretaceous
- Mosasauroidea
- Ophidia
- Sphenodontia
[Tanysauria]
- Dinocephalosaurus: Middle Triassic
- Tanystropheus: Middle Triassic
[Sauropterygia]ns
- Placodonts: Triassic
- Nothosauroidea: Triassic
- Pachypleurosaurs: Triassic
- Pistosaurus:Middle Triassic
- Plesiosaurs: Early Jurassic - Late Cretaceous
Ichthyosaur">Ichthyosauria">Ichthyosaurs
Choristoderes">Choristodera">Choristoderes
- Champsosaurus
- Simoedosaurus
- ?Pachystropheus
- ?''Actiosaurus''
[Crocodylomorph]s
- Thalattosuchia: Early Jurassic - Early Cretaceous
- Tethysuchia: Middle Jurassic - Early Eocene
- Gavialoidea: Late Cretaceous - Recent
[Testudine]s
- Chelonioidea
- Araripemydidae
- Bothremydidae
[Thalattosaur]s
- Agkistrognathus
- Anshunsaurus
- Askeptosaurus
- Concavispina
- Clarazia
- Endennasaurus
- Gunakadeit
- Hescheleria
- Miodentosaurus
- Nectosaurus
- Paralonectes
- Thalattosaurus
- Wapitisaurus
- Wayaosaurus
- ''Xinpusaurus''