Extinct reptiles

A closer look at extinct reptiles

This page gathers the catalogue’s other extinct reptiles. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs and marine reptiles have separate browsing groups. A large size or an unfamiliar skull does not make every reptile a dinosaur: Titanoboa, for example, was a giant snake known from fossils in Colombia.

These reptiles did not all live in the age of dinosaurs. Titanoboa lived after the extinction of non-avian dinosaurs, while the crocodile relative Voay survived into the Holocene in Madagascar. Each profile gives its own period and evidence, rather than placing them in one shared prehistoric scene.

Are all extinct reptiles dinosaurs?

No. Snakes and crocodile relatives belong to reptile lineages outside dinosaurs. This is a browsing collection, not a claim that every animal here is a close relative or a direct ancestor of a living species.

Further reading: Florida Museum: Titanoboa research · Hekkala and colleagues: The extinct Holocene crocodile Voay