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.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]
[Squamates]
- Dolichosauridae: Late Cretaceous
- Mosasauroidea
- Ophidia
- Sphenodontia
[Tanysauria]
[Sauropterygia]ns
- Placodonts: Triassic
- Nothosauroidea: Triassic
- Pachypleurosaurs: Triassic
- Pistosaurus:Middle Triassic
- Plesiosaurs: Early Jurassic - Late Cretaceous
Choristoderes">Choristodera">Choristoderes
[Crocodylomorph]s
- Thalattosuchia: Early Jurassic - Early Cretaceous
- Tethysuchia: Middle Jurassic - Early Eocene
- Gavialoidea: Late Cretaceous - Recent