List of the Paleozoic life of Virginia

This list of the Paleozoic life of Virginia contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Virginia and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.

A

  • †Acanthocrania
  • †Acanthoparypha – type locality for genus
    • †Acanthoparypha chiropyga – type locality for species
    • †Acanthoparypha perforata – type locality for species
  • †Acmarhachis
    • †Acmarhachis acuta
  • †Adiantities
    • †Adiantities spectabilis
  • †Aechimina
  • †Agassizocrinus
    • †Agassizocrinus ovalis – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Allorisma
  • †Ambocoelia
    • †Ambocoelia umbonata
  • †Ambonychia
    • †Ambonychia bowmani
  • †Amecephalina
    • †Amecephalina poulseni
  • †Amphigenia
    • †Amphigenia curta
  • †Amphilichas
    • †Amphilichas minganensis
  • †Amplexograptus
    • †Amplexograptus confertus
  • Fossils of the Ordovician-Permian bryozoan Amplexopora
    †Amplexopora
  • †Ampyx
    • †Ampyx virginiensis
  • †Ampyxina
    • †Ampyxina lanceola – type locality for species
    • †Ampyxina powelli
  • †Anazyga
    • †Anazyga recurvirostra
  • †Ancanthoparypha
  • †Anguloceras – type locality for genus
    • †Anguloceras depressum – type locality for species
    • †Anguloceras ovatum – type locality for species
    • †Anguloceras rotundum – type locality for species
  • †Anolotichia
    • †Anolotichia explanata – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Anoplia
    • †Anoplia nucleata
  • †Anoplotheca
    • †Anoplotheca sulcata
  • †Antagmus
  • †Anthracospirifer
    • †Anthracospirifer leidyi
  • †Aphelaspis
    • †Aphelaspis quadrata – tentative report
  • †Apianurus
    • †Apianurus barbatus – type locality for species
    • †Apianurus glaber – type locality for species
  • †Archaeocyathus
    • †Archaeocyathus resseri
  • †Archaeosycon
    • †Archaeosycon balsami – type locality for species
  • Fossils of the Carboniferous-Permian bryozoan Archimedes
    †Archimedes
  • †Arthrorhachis
  • †Athyris
  • †Atlanticocoelia
    • †Atlanticocoelia acutiplicata
  • †Atrypa
  • †Aulopora
  • †Aviculopecten
    • †Aviculopecten monroensis

B

  • †Bassleroceras
    • †Bassleroceras bridgei
    • †Bassleroceras dalevillense
  • †Bathyholcus
    • †Bathyholcus gaspensis
  • †Bathyurus
  • †Batostoma
    • †Batostoma campensis
    • †Batostoma sevieri
    • †Batostoma suberassum – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Batostomella
  • Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic mollusc Bellerophon
    †Bellerophon
  • †Bellimurina
    • †Bellimurina charlottae
  • †Berounella
  • †Billingsaria
    • †Billingsaria parva
  • †Bilobia
  • †Bimuria
    • †Bimuria immatura – type locality for species
    • †Bimuria lamellosa
    • †Bimuria superba
  • †Blountia
    • †Blountia virginica
  • †Blountiella
    • †Blountiella buttsi – tentative report
  • †Bollia – tentative report
    • †Bollia diceratina
  • †Bonnemaia
  • †Bonnia
    • †Bonnia crassa
  • Life restoration of the Late Devonian placoderm fish Bothriolepis
    †Bothriolepis
    • †Bothriolepis virginiensis – type locality for species
  • †Brachyprion
  • †Bronteopsis
  • †Bucanella
    • †Bucanella nana – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Bucania
  • †Bumastoides
  • †Bumastus
  • †Buthotrephis
    • †Buthotrephis flexuosa – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Buthotrephis gracilis
    • †Buthotrephis inosculata
  • †Byssonychia
    • †Byssonychia praecursa
  • †Bythopora

C

  • †Caborcella
  • †Calipernurus
    • †Calipernurus insolitus – type locality for species
  • †Callixylon
  • Fossil of the Early Ordovician-Early Devonian trilobite Calymene
    †Calymene
  • †Calyptaulax
    • †Calyptaulax annulata
    • †Calyptaulax annulatus
    • †Calyptaulax callicephala
    • †Calyptaulax callirachis – type locality for species
    • †Calyptaulax confluens
    • †Calyptaulax gracilens – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Camarocladia
    • †Camarocladia gracilis
  • †Camarotoechia
    • †Camarotoechia contracta
    • †Camarotoechia quadriplicata
    • †Camarotoechia varians – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Camerella
    • †Camerella varians
  • †Campbelloceras
    • †Campbelloceras brevicameratum
    • †Campbelloceras virginianus
  • †Canarekka
    • †Canarekka varians – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Caneyella
  • †Carabocrinus
  • †Cardiopteris
    • †Cardiopteris abbensis – type locality for species
    • †Cardiopteris irregularis – type locality for species
  • †Carickia
  • †Cariniferella
  • †Carniferella
    • †Carniferella carinata
  • †Caryocystites
  • †Cavifera
    • †Cavifera concinna – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Centrotarphyceras
    • †Centrotarphyceras bridgei
    • †Centrotarphyceras macdonaldi
  • †Ceramoporella
  • †Ceratocephala
    • †Ceratocephala laciniata – type locality for species
    • †Ceratocephala rarispina – type locality for species
    • †Ceratocephala triacantheis – type locality for species
    • †Ceratocephala tridens
  • †Ceratopea – type locality for genus
    • †Ceratopea grandis
    • †Ceratopea keithi – type locality for species
  • †Ceratopsis
    • †Ceratopsis chambersi
  • †Ceraurinella – type locality for genus
    • †Ceraurinella chondra – type locality for species
    • †Ceraurinella typa – type locality for species
  • Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician trilobite Ceraurus
    †Ceraurus
    • †Ceraurus whittingtoni
  • †Charionella
    • †Charionella scitula
  • †Chasmatopora
  • †Chasmotopora
  • †Chazydictya – tentative report
  • †Cheilocephalus
  • †Cheirocrinus
    • †Cheirocrinus angulatus – tentative report
  • †Chepuloceras – type locality for genus
    • †Chepuloceras inelegans – type locality for species
  • †Chlidanophyton
    • †Chlidanophyton dublinensis
  • †Chomatopyge
    • †Chomatopyge falcata – type locality for species
    • †Chomatopyge marginifera – type locality for species
  • †Chonetes
  • †Christiania
    • †Christiania subquadrata
    • †Christiania trentonensis
  • Assemblage of fossilized shells of the Ordovician brachiopod Cincinnetina
    †Cincinnetina
  • †Cladopora
  • †Clarkoceras – tentative report
  • †Cleiocrinus
    • †Cleiocrinus tessellatus – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Cleiothyridina
  • †Cleirocrinus
    • †Cleirocrinus tessellatus – or unidentified comparable form
  • Assemblage of fossils of the Cambrian graptolite Climacograptus
    †Climacograptus
    • †Climacograptus scharenbergi
  • †Cliothyridina
    • †Cliothyridina sublamellosa
  • †Coeloclema – tentative report
  • †Coelospira
    • †Coelospira hemisphaerica
    • †Coelospira nitens
    • †Coelospira planoconvexa
  • †Coleoloides
  • †Colpomya
    • †Colpomya faba
  • †Columbocystis
    • †Columbocystis typica
  • †Columnaria
    • †Columnaria halli
  • Fossilized shell of the Late Devonian-Permian brachiopod Composita
    †Composita
  • †Conocardium
  • †Conocerina
  • †Conotreta
    • †Conotreta cuspidata
    • †Conotreta plana
  • †Constellaria
  • †Constellirostra
  • †Conularia
  • †Coosia
    • †Coosia alethes
    • †Coosia calanus
  • †Coosina
    • †Coosina ariston
  • †Corineorthis
  • †Cornellites
  • Fossil of the Middle Ordovician-Carboniferous horn coral Cornulites
    †Cornulites
  • †Craniops
  • †Crepicephalus
    • †Crepicephalus rectus
  • †Crossia
    • †Crossia virginiana
  • †Cryptolithus
    • †Cryptolithus tesselatus
  • †Cryptophragmus
  • †Ctenodonta
    • †Ctenodonta pulchella
  • †Ctenoloculina
  • †Cuneamya
    • †Cuneamya scapha
    • †Cuneamya umbonata
  • †Cupularostrum
    • †Cupularostrum congregata
    • †Cupularostrum contracta
  • †Cybeloides
    • †Cybeloides virginiensis
  • †Cyclospira
  • †Cymatonota
    • †Cymatonota pholadis – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Cypricarculana – tentative report
  • †Cypricardella
  • Restoration of the Cambrian-Middle Devonian nautiloid cephalopod Cyrtoceras
    †Cyrtoceras
  • †Cyrtodonta
  • †Cyrtodontula
    • †Cyrtodontula massanuttenensis
    • †Cyrtodontula nasuta
  • †Cyrtonella
  • †Cyrtonotella
    • †Cyrtonotella grandistriata
  • †Cyrtospirifer
    • †Cyrtospirifer disjunctus
  • †Cystelasma
    • †Cystelasma quinquiseptatum
  • †Cystiphylloides
  • †Cystiphyllum
  • †Cystodictya

D

  • †Dactylogonia
    • †Dactylogonia palustris – or unidentified related form
  • †Dakeoceras
  • †Dalmanella
    • †Dalmanella bassleri
    • †Dalmanella costellata
    • †Dalmanella fertilis
    • †Dalmanella rogata
    • †Dalmanella sculpta – or unidentified comparable form
  • Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Middle Devonian trilobite Dalmanites
    †Dalmanites – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Decoroproetus
  • †Dekayia
  • †Delocrinus
  • †Densastroma
    • †Densastroma pexisum
  • †Dermatostroma
  • †Devonochonetes
    • †Devonochonetes scitulus – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Diabolocrinus
  • †Diacanthaspis
    • †Diacanthaspis cooperi – type locality for species
    • †Diacanthaspis lepidus – type locality for species
    • †Diacanthaspis orandensis – type locality for species
    • †Diacanthaspis scitulus – type locality for species
    • †Diacanthaspis secretus – type locality for species
    • †Diacanthaspis ulrichi – type locality for species
  • †Diaphragmus
  • †Dicellograptus
  • †Dicellomus
    • †Dicellomus appalachia
  • †Dichotrypa
    • †Dichotrypa flabellum – tentative report
  • †Dictyoclostus
    • †Dictyoclostus burlingtonensis
    • †Dictyoclostus inflatus
    • †Dictyoclostus parvus
    • †Dictyoclostus scitulus
  • †Dielasma
    • †Dielasma arkansanum – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Dimeropyge
    • †Dimeropyge spinifera – type locality for species
    • †Dimeropyge virginiensis – type locality for species
  • †Dinorthis
    • †Dinorthis atavoides
    • †Dinorthis interstriata
    • †Dinorthis transversa
    • †Dinorthis willardi
  • †Dionide
    • †Dionide holdeni
  • Cambrian graptolite Diplograptus
    †Diplograptus
    • †Diplograptus foliaceus
    • †Diplograptus vespertinus – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Dizygopleura
  • †Doleroides
    • †Doleroides ponderosus – type locality for species
  • †Dolichoharpes
    • †Dolichoharpes reticulata
  • †Donaldina
  • †Douvillina
  • †Drabia
    • †Drabia curtoccipita
  • †Drepanella
    • †Drepanella richardsoni
  • †Dromopus
    • †Dromopus aduncus
  • †Dunderbergia
    • †Dunderbergia simplex
    • †Dunderbergia variagranula – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Dystactispongia
  • †Dystactospongia
    • †Dystactospongia minor

E

  • †Ecculiomphalus
  • †Eccyliopterus
  • †Echinoconchus
    • †Echinoconchus elegans – or unidentified related form
  • †Echinocrinus
  • Fossil of the Early-Middle Ordovician cystoid echinoderm Echinosphaerites
    †Echinosphaerites
    • †Echinosphaerites aurantium
  • †Ectenoceras
    • †Ectenoceras chepultepecense
    • †Ectenoceras compressum
    • †Ectenoceras exile
    • †Ectenoceras longum
  • †Edmondia – tentative report
  • †Edmondia
  • †Elliptoglossa
    • †Elliptoglossa ovalis
    • †Elliptoglossa rotundata
  • †Embolophyllum
    • †Embolophyllum schucherti
  • †Encrinuroides
  • †Eodevonaria
    • †Eodevonaria arcuata
  • †Eoharpes
  • †Eomonorachus
  • †Eophacops
  • †Eoplectodonta
    • †Eoplectodonta alternata
  • †Eopsongia
  • †Eoptychoparia
    • †Eoptychoparia clearbranches
    • †Eoptychoparia taylori
  • †Eospongia
    • †Eospongia roemeri
    • †Eospongia varians
  • †Eotomaria
    • †Eotomaria canalifera
  • †Epiphyton
  • †Eridorthis
    • †Eridorthis inexpecta – type locality for species
  • †Eridotrypa
  • †Escharopora
    • †Escharopora subrecta
  • †Esharopora
  • Illustration with inset cross-section diagrams of the Cambrian sponge Ethmophyllum
    †Ethmophyllum
    • †Ethmophyllum whitneyi
  • †Euchasma
    • †Euchasma blumenbachi
  • †Euphemites
    • †Euphemites galericulatus
  • †Eurychilina
    • †Eurychilina latimarginata – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Eurychilina subradiata
  • †Eurystomites
    • †Eurystomites bolarensis
  • †Eustephanella
    • †Eustephanella catastephanes

F

  • †Fardenia
  • Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites
    †Favosites
  • †Fenestralia
    • †Fenestralia sanctiludovici
  • †Fenestrellina
    • †Fenestrellina regalis – tentative report
    • †Fenestrellina serratula
    • †Fenestrellina tenax
  • †Finkelnburgia
    • †Finkelnburgia buttsi
  • †Fletcheria – tentative report
    • †Fletcheria incognita – or unidentified comparable form
  • Front (left) and right side (right) views of an enrolled fossil of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian trilobite Flexicalymene
    †Flexicalymene
  • †Foerstia
    • †Foerstia ohioensis
  • †Furcitella
    • †Furcitella plicata – type locality for species

G

  • †Gasconadia
    • †Gasconadia putilla
  • †Genselia
  • †Girtyella
    • †Girtyella indianensis
    • †Girtyella turgida
  • †Girvanella
  • †Glaphyraspis
    • †Glaphyraspis ovata
    • †Glaphyraspis parva
  • †Glauconome
  • †Glenodonta
  • †Globocrinus
    • †Globocrinus unionensis – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Glyptambonites
    • †Glyptambonites glyptus – type locality for species
    • †Glyptambonites musculosus
  • †Glyptometopsis
    • †Glyptometopsis marginata
    • †Glyptometopsis tumida
  • †Glyptopora
  • †Glyptorthis
    • †Glyptorthis bellarugosa
    • †Glyptorthis bellatula – type locality for species
    • †Glyptorthis equiconvexa
    • †Glyptorthis glypta – type locality for species
    • †Glyptorthis senecta – type locality for species
    • †Glyptorthis uniformis – type locality for species
  • †Gnetopsis
    • †Gnetopsis hispida
  • †Gonioceras
  • †Grammysia
  • †Graphiadactyllis
  • †Graptodictya
  • †Grenevievella – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Grivanella

H

  • Fossil of the Ordovician bryozoan ("moss animal") Hallopora
    †Hallopora
    • †Hallopora multitabulata
  • †Harpidella
  • †Healdia
  • †Hebertella
    • †Hebertella frankfortensis
    • †Hebertella sinuata
  • †Helcionella
  • †Helicotoma
    • †Helicotoma declivis
    • †Helicotoma granosa – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Helicotoma tennesseensis
    • †Helicotoma verticalis – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Heliomeroides
    • †Heliomeroides teres – type locality for species
  • †Hellopora
  • †Hemiphragma
  • †Hemithecella – type locality for genus
    • †Hemithecella expansa – type locality for species
  • †Hemitrypa
    • †Hemitrypa proutana
  • †Hesperorthis
    • †Hesperorthis tricenaria – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Heterotrypa
  • †Holdenia
    • †Holdenia typa
  • †Holia
    • †Holia cimelia – type locality for species
    • †Holia secristi – type locality for species
  • Fossilized shells of the Ordovician-Carboniferous sea snail Holopea
    †Holopea
    • †Holopea scrutator
  • †Homagnostus
  • †Homotelus
    • †Homotelus elongatus
    • †Homotelus simplex – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Hormotoma
  • †Howellella
  • †Hustedograptus
    • †Hustedograptus teretiusculus – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Hyboaspis
  • †Hyolithellus
    • †Hyolithellus micans
    • †Hyolithellus micras
Fossilized shells of the Cambrian-Permian brachiopod relative Hyolitha

†Hyolithes

  • †Hypseloconus
    • †Hypseloconus bessemerense – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Hystricurus – tentative report

I

  • Fossil of the Middle Ordovician trilobite Illaenus
    †Illaenus
    • †Illaenus fieldi
  • †Illaneus
  • †Inflatia
  • †Iridopteris
    • †Iridopteris eriensis
  • †Ischycondonta
  • †Ischyrodonta
    • †Ischyrodonta unionoides
  • †Isochilina
    • †Isochilina armata
  • Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus.
    †Isotelus

K

  • †Kingstonia
  • †Kionoceras
  • †Kirkbyella
  • †Komaspidella
    • †Komaspidella laevis
    • †Komaspidella lata
  • Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Kootenia
    †Kootenia
    • †Kootenia browni
    • †Kootenia oblivia
  • †Krausella
    • †Krausella arcuata
  • †Kullervo
    • †Kullervo ornata – type locality for species
    • †Kullervo parva – type locality for species
  • †Kutorgina
    • †Kutorgina cingulata

L

  • †Labyrinthus
  • †Lagenospermum
    • †Lagenospermum imparirameum
  • †Lambeophyllum
  • †Laticrura – type locality for genus
    • †Laticrura magna – type locality for species
    • †Laticrura pionodema – type locality for species
  • †Latouchella
  • †Lecanospira
    • †Lecanospira compacta
  • †Leiorhynchus
    • †Leiorhynchus mesicostale
  • †Leperditella
    • †Leperditella sulcata
  • †Leperditia
    • †Leperditia fabulites
  • Restoration of the Carboniferous-Late Triassic club moss relative Lepidodendron. Eli Heimans (1911).
    †Lepidodendron
  • †Lepidodendropsis
    • †Lepidodendropsis scobiniformis
    • †Lepidodendropsis sigillarioides
    • †Lepidodendropsis vandergrachti
  • †Leptaena
    • †Leptaena ordovicica – type locality for species
  • †Leptellina
    • †Leptellina transversa – type locality for species
  • †Leptobolus
  • †Leptocoelia
  • †Leptocyrtoceras
    • †Leptocyrtoceras virginianum
  • †Leptodesma
    • †Leptodesma potens
    • †Leptodesma spinerigum
  • Life restoration of the Early Ordovician nautiloid cephalopod Levisoceras
    †Levisoceras
    • †Levisoceras ellipticum
    • †Levisoceras instabile
    • †Levisoceras transitum
  • †Lichenaria
    • †Lichenaria carterensis
  • Lingula
    • †Lingula nicklesi – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Lingula nympha – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Lingulasma
    • †Lingulasma compactum – type locality for species
  • †Lingulella – tentative report
  • †Liocalymene
    • †Liocalymene clintoni
  • †Liospira
    • †Liospira vitruvia
  • †Lithostrontionella
    • †Lithostrontionella prolifera
  • †Llanoaspis
    • †Llanoaspis convexifrons
  • Fossil of the Ordovician trilobite Lonchodomas
    †Lonchodomas
    • †Lonchodomas carinatus – type locality for species
  • †Longispina
    • †Longispina mucronatus
  • †Lophonema – tentative report
  • †Lophospira
    • †Lophospira milleri
    • †Lophospira perangulata
  • †Loxobucania
    • †Loxobucania emmonsi
  • †Loxoplocus
  • †Lyrodesma

M

  • †Maclurina
    • †Maclurina bigsbyi
  • †Macluritella
    • †Macluritella gyroceras
    • †Macluritella multiseptarius – tentative report
    • †Macluritella uniangulata
  • †Maclurites
    • †Maclurites magnus
  • †Macrocoelia
    • †Macrocoelia magna
    • †Macrocoelia rotunda
  • †Macropyge – tentative report
  • †Marginovatia
    • †Marginovatia minor
  • †Marvillia
    • †Marvillia bristolensis
  • †Maryvillia
    • †Maryvillia arion
  • †Mastigobolbina
    • †Mastigobolbina lata
  • †Meekospira
  • †Megambonia
  • †Mesotaphraspis – type locality for genus
    • †Mesotaphraspis inornata – type locality for species
    • †Mesotaphraspis parva – type locality for species
  • †Mesotrypa
  • Restoration of the Cambrian trilobite Meteoraspis
    †Meteoraspis
    • †Meteoraspis mutica
  • †Mexicaspis
  • †Michelinoceras
  • †Microplasma
    • †Microplasma fasciculatum
  • †Mimella
    • †Mimella globosa
    • †Mimella melonica
    • †Mimella vulgaris
  • Life restoration of the Silurian trilobite Miraspis
    †Miraspis
  • †Modiolopsis
    • †Modiolopsis modiolaris
  • †Monogonoceras
    • †Monogonoceras magnisiphonatum
  • †Monotrypa
  • †Monticulipora
  • †Multicostella
    • †Multicostella brevis
    • †Multicostella bursa
    • †Multicostella platys
  • †Multispinula
    • †Multispinula cuneata
  • †Muriceras
  • †Mytilarca

N

  • Fossilized shell of the Early Devonian – Triassic sea snail Naticopsis
    †Naticopsis
    • †Naticopsis buttsi
  • †Nemagraptus
    • †Nemagraptus gracilis
  • †Neozaphrentis
  • †Nervostrophia
    • †Nervostrophia nervosa
  • †Nicholsonella
  • †Nicholsonells
  • †Nidulites
    • †Nidulites pyriformis
  • †Nileus
  • †Niobe
  • †Nisusia
    • †Nisusia festinata
  • †Nolichuckia
    • †Nolichuckia casteri
  • †Norwoodella
    • †Norwoodella saffordi
  • †Nothognathella
  • Interior of a fossilized shell of the Early Ordovician-modern marine bivalve Nucula
    Nucula
  • Nuculana
  • †Nuculites
  • †Nuculopsis
  • †Nuia

O

  • †Odontopleura
  • †Oepikina
    • †Oepikina minnesoteniss – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
    • †Oepikina minnesotensis
  • Restoration of the Cambrian trilobite Olenellus
    †Olenellus
  • †Olenoides
    • †Olenoides nitidus
  • †Omospira
    • †Omospira laticincta – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Onchocephalites
    • †Onchocephalites rotundiformis
  • †Onchocephalus
  • †Onniella
  • †Onychoceras
    • †Onychoceras subrotundum
  • †Ophileta
    • †Ophileta complanata
  • †Ophiletina
    • †Ophiletina sublaxa
  • †Opikina
    • †Opikina matutina – type locality for species
    • †Opikina varia
  • †Orbiculoidea
  • †Orbignyella
  • †Orthambonites
    • †Orthambonites divaricatus
  • †Orthoceras
    • †Orthoceras multicameratum
  • †Orthodesma
    • †Orthodesma nasutum
  • †Orthorhynchula
    • †Orthorhynchula linneyi – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Orthotetes
  • †Otarion
  • †Ottoseetaxis
  • †Oulodus
    • †Oulodus pectinata
  • †Ovatia
    • †Ovatia ovata – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Oxoplecia
    • †Oxoplecia gibbosa
    • †Oxoplecia holstonensis
    • †Oxoplecia hostonensis
    • †Oxoplecia multicostellata
    • †Oxoplecia simulatrix
  • †Ozarkispira
    • †Ozarkispira subelevata – type locality for species
  • †Ozarkodina

P

  • †Pachendoceras
    • †Pachendoceras brevicameratum – type locality for species
    • †Pachendoceras parvum
  • †Pachydictya
    • †Pachydictya robusta
    • †Pachydictya senilis – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Pachydomella – tentative report
  • †Pachyglossella
    • †Pachyglossella pachydermata
  • Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Pagetia
    †Pagetia
    • †Pagetia ellsi
  • †Palaeoneilo
    • †Palaeoneilo petila
  • †Palaeophycus – tentative report
  • †Palaeostrophomena
    • †Palaeostrophomena subtransversa – type locality for species
  • †Paleocrinus
    • †Paleocrinus striatus – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Paleyoldia
  • †Paractinoceras
    • †Paractinoceras lamellosum
  • †Parallelostroma
    • †Parallelostroma kaugatomicum
    • †Parallelostroma keyserense – type locality for species
    • †Parallelostroma longicolumnum – type locality for species
    • †Parallelostroma microporum
    • †Parallelostroma multicolumnum – type locality for species
    • †Parallelostroma typicum
  • †Paraparchites – tentative report
  • †Pararaphistoma – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Parastrophina
  • †Paratalarocrinus – type locality for genus
    • †Paratalarocrinus transitorius – type locality for species
  • †Paterina
  • †Pattella
    • †Pattella massanuttense
  • †Paucicrura
  • †Pauorthis
  • †Paupospira
    • †Paupospira burginensis
    • †Paupospira sumnerensis
    • †Paupospira tropidophora
  • †Paurorthis
    • †Paurorthis ponderosa
  • †Pemphigaspis
  • Fossilized theca of the Carboniferous blastoid echinoderm ("sea bud") Pentremites
    †Pentremites
    • †Pentremites planus – tentative report
  • †Perimecocoelia
    • †Perimecocoelia semicostata
    • †Perimecocoelia triangulata
  • †Peronopora
  • †Phaenopora
  • †Phestia
  • †Phillipsia
  • †Pholidops
    • †Pholidops areolata
    • †Pholidops cincinnatiensis
  • †Phragmolites
    • †Phragmolites triangularis – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Phragmorthis – type locality for genus
    • †Phragmorthis buttsi – type locality for species
  • †Phyllodictya
    • †Phyllodictya frondosa
  • †Phylloporina
  • Pinna
  • †Pionodema
    • †Pionodema miniscula
    • †Pionodema subaequata
  • †Plaesiomys
  • †Platyceras
  • †Platycrinus
    • †Platycrinus penicillus
  • †Platyrachella
  • Fossilized shell of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Platystrophia
    †Platystrophia
  • †Plectocamara
  • †Plectoceras
    • †Plectoceras bondi
  • †Plectonotus
  • †Plectorthis
    • †Plectorthis exfoliata – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Plethobolbina
  • †Plethrospira – tentative report
  • †Plexodictyon
    • †Plexodictyon waparksi – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Pliomerella
  • †Pocononia
    • †Pocononia whitei – type locality for species
  • †Pojetaconcha – tentative report
  • †Poliella
    • †Poliella virginica
  • †Polylopia
    • †Polylopia billingsi
  • †Polypora
    • †Polypora impressa – tentative report
  • †Posidonia
    • †Posidonia becheri
  • †Praenucula
    • †Praenucula albertina
  • †Prasopora
  • †Primaspis
    • †Primaspis ascitus – type locality for species
  • †Primitiella
    • †Primitiella constricta
  • †Prioniodina
  • †Prismostylus
    • †Prismostylus fibratum
  • †Probolichas
    • †Probolichas pandus – type locality for species
  • †Productella
  • †Productorthis
    • †Productorthis agilera
  • †Productus
    • †Productus altonensis
  • Restoration of the Silurian trilobite Proetus
    †Proetus
    • †Proetus crassimarginatus
  • †Prothyris
  • †Protobarinophyton
  • †Protolepidodendron
    • †Protolepidodendron primaevum
  • †Protoleptostrophia
    • †Protoleptostrophia perplana
  • †Protostigmaria
    • †Protostigmaria eggertiana
  • †Protozyga
    • †Protozyga uniplicata – type locality for species
  • †Prozacanthoides
    • †Prozacanthoides clearbranchensis
    • †Prozacanthoides virginicus
  • †Pseudagnostus
    • †Pseudagnostus communis
  • †Pseudosphaerexochus
  • †Pterinea
    • †Pterinea insueta
    • †Pterinea maternata
  • †Pterocephalops
    • †Pterocephalops acrophthalma
  • †Pterocrinus
    • †Pterocrinus serratus
  • †Pterygometopus
  • †Ptychoglyptus
    • †Ptychoglyptus virginiensis
  • †Ptychopleurella
    • †Ptychopleurella mediocostata – type locality for species
    • †Ptychopleurella rectangulata – type locality for species
    • †Ptychopleurella sulcata
  • †Punctospirifer
    • †Punctospirifer transversa – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Punctospirifer transversus

Q

  • †Quebecaspis
    • †Quebecaspis conifrons
    • †Quebecaspis marylandica

R

  • †Rafinesquina
    • †Rafinesquina altenata
    • †Rafinesquina alternata
    • †Rafinesquina deltoidea – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Rafinesquina fracta
    • †Rafinesquina obsoleta – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Rafinesquina planulata – type locality for species
    • †Rafinesquina pulchella
  • †Raphistomina
  • †Raymondaspis
    • †Raymondaspis gregarius
  • †Raymondella
    • †Raymondella elegans
  • Fossil of the Early Ordovician-Permian benthic alga Receptaculites
    †Receptaculites
    • †Receptaculites biconstrictus
    • †Receptaculites occidentalis
  • †Redstonia
    • †Redstonia cooperi
  • †Regnellicystis
    • †Regnellicystis typicalis
  • †Remopleurides
    • †Remopleurides asperulus – type locality for species
    • †Remopleurides caelatus – type locality for species
    • †Remopleurides caphyroides – type locality for species
    • †Remopleurides eximius – type locality for species
    • †Remopleurides plaesiourus – type locality for species
    • †Remopleurides simulus – type locality for species
  • †Resserella
    • †Resserella rogata
  • †Reticestus – tentative report
  • †Reticulariina
    • †Reticulariina spinosa – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Reuschella
    • †Reuschella americana – type locality for species
    • †Reuschella edsoni
  • †Rhacophyton
  • †Rhacopteris
  • †Rhinidictya
    • †Rhinidictya nicholsoni
  • †Rhipidomena
    • †Rhipidomena tennesseensis
  • Shell of a Rhodea land snail
    †Rhodea
    • †Rhodea blacksburgensis – type locality for species
    • †Rhodea vespertina – type locality for species
  • †Rhombopora
    • †Rhombopora simulatrix
  • †Rhynchotrema
  • †Rhytimya
  • †Robergia
    • †Robergia major
  • †Robergiella
    • †Robergiella sagittalis – type locality for species
  • †Robsonoceras
  • †Rodea
    • †Rodea vespertina – type locality for species
  • Rostricellula
    • †Rostricellula plena
    • †Rostricellula pristina
  • †Rothpletzella
  • †Ruedemannia
    • †Ruedemannia lirata

S

  • Illustration of fossilized shells of the mysterious Cambrian organism Salterella
    †Salterella
  • †Salteria
    • †Salteria americana
  • †Sanguinolites
  • †Scaphorthis
    • †Scaphorthis perplexa – type locality for species
  • †Scenellopora
    • †Scenellopora radiata
  • †Schellwienella – tentative report
  • †Schizambon
    • †Schizambon cuneatus
    • †Schizambon macrothyris
  • †Schizodus
  • †Schizophoria
    • †Schizophoria impressa
  • †Schizotreta
  • †Schuchertella
    • †Schuchertella desiderata
    • †Schuchertella pandora
  • †Scotoharpes
  • †Sedgwickia
  • †Sellenopora
  • †Septopora
    • †Septopora cestriensis
  • †Sinuopea
    • †Sinuopea basiplanata – or unidentified related form
  • †Siphonodella
    • †Siphonodella duplicata
  • †Skenidioides
    • †Skenidioides mediocostatus – type locality for species
    • †Skenidioides transversus – type locality for species
  • Solemya
  • Fossils of the red alga Solenopora
    †Solenopora
  • †Sowerbyella
    • †Sowerbyella acquistriata – or unidentified related form
    • †Sowerbyella aequistriata – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Sowerbyella curdsvillensis
    • †Sowerbyella delicatula
    • †Sowerbyella lebanonensis – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Sowerbyella levanonensis – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Sowerbyella negrita – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Sowerbyella pisum
    • †Sowerbyella rugosa
    • †Sowerbyella sericea – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
    • †Sowerbyella silicica – type locality for species
    • †Sowerbyella socialis
  • †Sowerbyites
    • †Sowerbyites triseptatus
  • †Sowrbyella
  • †Spathella
  • †Spathognathodus
  • †Spencella
    • †Spencella virginica
  • Fossil of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian trilobite Sphaerexochus
    †Sphaerexochus
    • †Sphaerexochus hapsidotus – type locality for species
    • †Sphaerexochus pulcher – type locality for species
  • †Sphaerocoryphe
    • †Sphaerocoryphe gemina – type locality for species
    • †Sphaerocoryphe longispina – type locality for species
  • †Sphenotreta
    • †Sphenotreta acutirostris
  • †Spinatrypa
    • †Spinatrypa spinosa
  • Fossilized shell of the Late Ordovician-Late Triassic brachiopod Spirifer
    †Spirifer
    • †Spirifer bifurcatus
    • †Spirifer macrus
    • †Spirifer marcyi – tentative report
    • †Spirifer mesistrialis
    • †Spirifer stratiformis – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Spirifer striatiformis – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Spirifer varicosus
    • †Spirifer winchelli – tentative report
  • †Spongophylloides
  • †Spyroceras
  • †Stegerhynchus
    • †Stegerhynchus neglectum
  • †Stenoblepharum – broadly construed
    • †Stenoblepharum strasburgense – type locality for species
  • †Stenopareia
  • †Stictopora
  • †Strepulites
  • †Stromatocerium
    • †Stromatocerium rugosum
  • †Stromatoceruium
    • †Stromatoceruium rugosum
  • Fossilized shell of the Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Strophomena
    †Strophomena
  • †Strphomena
    • †Strphomena incurvata
  • †Subligaculum
  • †Subulites
    • †Subulites regularis
  • †Sulevorthis
    • †Sulevorthis bielsteini
    • †Sulevorthis parvicrassicostatus
  • †Synprioniodina
  • Fossil of the Devonian tabulate coral Syringopora
    †Syringopora
    • †Syringopora virginica
  • †Syringothyris
    • †Syringothyris textus – or unidentified comparable form

T

  • †Tabulipora
    • †Tabulipora tuberculata
  • †Taenicephalites
    • †Taenicephalites macrops
  • †Talarocrinus
    • †Talarocrinus trijugis – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Tancrediopsis
  • †Taphrorthis
    • †Taphrorthis peculiaris
  • †Telephina
  • Fossilized shell of the Early Ordovician-Late Devonian probable mollusc Tentaculites
    †Tentaculites
    • †Tentaculites lowdoni – type locality for species
    • †Tentaculites minutus
    • †Tentaculites scalaris
  • †Terranovella
    • †Terranovella dorsalis
  • †Teteracamera – tentative report
  • †Tetracamera
  • †Tetradium
    • †Tetradium cellulosum
    • †Tetradium clarki – tentative report
    • †Tetradium columnare – tentative report
    • †Tetradium racemosum
    • †Tetradium syringoporoides
  • †Tetralobula
    • †Tetralobula delicatula
  • †Thaleops
    • †Thaleops conradi
  • †Titanambonites
    • †Titanambonites crassus
  • †Torynifer
    • †Torynifer pseudolineata – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Torynifer pseudolineatus
  • †Tretaspis
    • †Tretaspis sagenosus
  • Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Tricrepicephalus
    †Tricrepicephalus
    • †Tricrepicephalus cedarensis
    • †Tricrepicephalus simplex
  • †Trinodus
    • †Trinodus elspethi
  • †Triphyllopteris
    • †Triphyllopteris alleghanensis
    • †Triphyllopteris biloba – type locality for species
    • †Triphyllopteris lascuriana
    • †Triphyllopteris latilobata – type locality for species
    • †Triphyllopteris lescuriana
    • †Triphyllopteris lesuriana
    • †Triphyllopteris rarinervis – type locality for species
    • †Triphyllopteris uberis
    • †Triphyllopteris virginiana
  • †Trocholitoceras
    • †Trocholitoceras bevani
  • †Trochonema
    • †Trochonema bellulum
    • †Trochonema trochonemoides – tentative report
    • †Trochonema umbilicata
  • †Tropidodiscus
  • Fossils of the bore-hole ichnogenus Trypanites
    Trypanites
  • †Tryplasma
  • †Tubulibairdia
  • †Tylothyris
    • †Tylothyris mesacostalis

U

  • †Ulrichia
  • †Uncinulus

V

  • †Valcourea
    • †Valcourea crassa – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Valcourea deflecta – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Valcourea delfecta – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Valcourea semicarinata – type locality for species
  • †Vanuxemia
    • †Vanuxemia crassa – or unidentified comparable form

W

  • †Wilkingia
  • †Wilsoniella
  • †Woosteroceras
    • †Woosteroceras chepultepecense – type locality for species

Z

  • †Zaphrenthis
    • †Zaphrenthis spinulosa
  • †Zaphrentites
    • †Zaphrentites spinulosa – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Zelophyllum
  • †Zygobolba
    • †Zygobolba decora
  • †Zygosella
  • †Zygospira
    • †Zygospira lebanonensis
    • †Zygospira modesta

References

  • Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved December 17, 2021.