List of the prehistoric life of Alaska

This list of the prehistoric life of Alaska contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Alaska.

Precambrian

The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Alaska.

Paleozoic

Selected Paleozoic taxa of Alaska

  • Abadehella
  • Acanthophyllum
  • Fossil of the Silurian-Middle Devonian trilobite Acanthopyge
    Acanthopyge
  • Acmarhachis
  • Agoniatites – tentative report
  • Amplexus
  • Ancyrognathus
  • Anomphalus – tentative report
  • Athyris
    • Athyris lamellosa – or unidentified related form
  • Atrypa
  • Aulopora
  • Mold fossil of a shell of the Early Devonian-Late Triassic bivalve Aviculopecten
    Aviculopecten
    • Aviculopecten chesterensis – tentative report
    • Aviculopecten delawarensis – or unidentified related form
    • Aviculopecten edwardsi – or unidentified related form
    • Aviculopecten fasciculatus – or unidentified related form
    • Aviculopecten hardinensis – or unidentified related form
    • Aviculopecten mccoyi – or unidentified related form
    • Aviculopecten montpelierensis – or unidentified related form
    • Aviculopecten occidentalis – or unidentified related form
    • Aviculopecten similis – or unidentified related form
  • Avonia – tentative report
  • Bailiaspis
  • Bathyuriscus
  • Belemnites – tentative report
  • Bellerophon
    • Bellerophon chapmani
    • Bellerophon livengoodensis
    • Bellerophon spergensis – or unidentified related form
  • Bembexia – tentative report
  • Bimuria
  • Callograptus
  • Calymene
  • Camarotoechia
    • Camarotoechia billingsi – or unidentified comparable form
    • Camarotoechia duplicata – tentative report
    • Camarotoechia winiskensis – or unidentified comparable form
  • Capulus
  • Catenipora
    • Catenipora jacovikii – or unidentified comparable form
    • Catenipora robustus – or unidentified comparable form
    • Catenipora rubra – or unidentified comparable form
  • Cedaria
  • Cheirurus
  • Chirognathus – tentative report
  • Chonetes
    • Chonetes capax – or unidentified related form
    • Chonetes illinoisensis – or unidentified related form
    • Chonetes manitobensis – or unidentified comparable form
    • Chonetes timanicus – or unidentified related form
    • Chonetes verneuile – or unidentified comparable form
    • Chonetes verneuilianus – or unidentified related form
  • Christiania
  • Cladochonus
  • Cladospongia – type locality for genus
  • Cleiothyridina
    • Cleiothyridina sublamellosa – or unidentified related form
  • Assemblage of fossils of the Cambrian graptolite Climacograptus
    Climacograptus
    • Climacograptus antiquus – or unidentified related form
    • Climacograptus bicornis
    • Climacograptus eximius – or unidentified comparable form
    • Climacograptus hughesi – or unidentified comparable form
    • Climacograptus indivisus
    • Climacograptus innotatus
    • Climacograptus medius
    • Climacograptus minutus – tentative report
    • Climacograptus phyllophorus – or unidentified comparable form
    • Climacograptus pungens
    • Climacograptus rectangularis
    • Climacograptus scalaris
    • Climacograptus stenotelus
    • Climacograptus trifilis
  • Coenites
  • Fossilized shell of the Late Devonian-Permian brachiopod Composita
    Composita
    • Composita ambigua – or unidentified comparable form
    • Composita bellula – or unidentified related form
  • Conchidium
  • Conocardium
  • Cordylodus – tentative report
  • Crania
  • Craticula – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
  • Cyclonema
  • Cyclopteris – tentative report
  • Cymbidium
  • Cyphaspis
  • Cypricardinia
  • Restoration of the Cambrian-Middle Devonian nautiloid cephalopod Cyrtoceras
    Cyrtoceras
  • Cyrtospirifer
    • Cyrtospirifer buddingtoni – type locality for species
    • Cyrtospirifer paridaensis
  • Cystodictya
    • Cystodictya lineata – or unidentified related form
    • Cystodictya pustulosa – or unidentified related form
  • Dalmanites
  • Dendrograptus
  • Dentalium
    • Dentalium hecetaensis
  • Dicoelosia
  • Dictyonema
  • Fossil of the Middle Ordovician graptolite Didymograptus
    Didymograptus
    • Didymograptus extensus – or unidentified comparable form
    • Didymograptus nitidus – or unidentified comparable form
    • Didymograptus sagitticaulis
    • Didymograptus serratulus
  • Diplograptus
    • Diplograptus cyperoides – or unidentified comparable form
    • Diplograptus elongatus
    • Diplograptus euglyptus
    • Diplograptus hughesi
    • Diplograptus inutilis
    • Diplograptus modestus
    • Diplograptus mucroterminatus
    • Diplograptus multidens – or unidentified related form
    • Diplograptus nicolsoni – or unidentified comparable form
  • Diplopora – tentative report
  • Drepanophycus
  • Edmondia
  • Ella – tentative report
  • Ellesmeroceras
  • Elrathia
  • Emmonsia
  • Eospirifer
  • Epiphyton
  • Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Permian sea snail Euomphalus
    Euomphalus
    • Euomphalus brooksensis
    • Euomphalus bundtzeni
    • Euomphalus planodorsatus – or unidentified related form
    • Euomphalus planorbis
    • Euomphalus utahensis – or unidentified related form
  • Favosites
    • Favosites emmonsi – or unidentified comparable form
    • Favosites hemispericus
    • Favosites hemisphericus
    • Favosites limitaris
    • Favosites radiciformis
  • Fenestella
  • Fletcheria – tentative report
  • Fusulina
  • Gastrioceras
  • Fossil of the Early-Late Ordovician trilobite Geragnostus
    Geragnostus
  • Gervillia
  • Girvanella
  • Gomphoceras
  • Goniatites
  • Grewingkia
  • Gypospirifer
  • Halysites
  • Harpides
  • Harpidium
  • Hedstroemia – tentative report
  • Heliophyllum
  • Hemirhodon
  • Hercynella
  • Fossil of the Devonian colonial rugose coral Hexagonaria, also known as a Petoskey stone
    Hexagonaria
  • Hindeodus
  • Holopea
  • Homagnostus
  • Howittia
  • Icriodus
    • Icriodus angustoides
    • Icriodus taimyricus
  • Idiognathodus
  • Isograptus
    • Isograptus forcipiformis
    • Isograptus manubriatus – or unidentified comparable form
  • Fossilized shells of the Middle Ordovician-Permian nautiloid cephalopod Kionoceras
    Kionoceras
  • Kootenia
    • Kootenia anabarensis – or unidentified comparable form
    • Kootenia granulospinosa – type locality for species
    • Kootenia serrata – or unidentified comparable form
  • Krausella
  • Lejopyge
  • Lichas
  • Lima
  • Lingula
  • Lithostrotion
    • Lithostrotion mclareni
    • Lithostrotion portlocki – or unidentified related form
    • Lithostrotion sinuosum
    • Lithostrotion warreni
  • Lucina
  • Martinia
  • Illustration (lower right, entry 15) of a fossilized shell in front and side views of the Silurian-Late Devonian brachiopod Meristella
    Meristella
    • Meristella barrisi – or unidentified comparable form
    • Meristella ceras – or unidentified comparable form
    • Meristella tumida – tentative report
  • Meristina
  • Mesophyllum
  • Michelinoceras – tentative report
  • Microplasma
  • Modiolus – tentative report
  • Fossils of the Early Devonian graptolite Monograptus
    Monograptus
    • Monograptus acinaces
    • Monograptus atavus
    • Monograptus bohemicus
    • Monograptus buddingtoni
    • Monograptus calamistratus
    • Monograptus clingani – or unidentified related form
    • Monograptus convolutus
    • Monograptus crenularis – or unidentified comparable form
    • Monograptus crinitus
    • Monograptus cyphus
    • Monograptus difformis – or unidentified comparable form
    • Monograptus dubius
    • Monograptus gregarius
    • Monograptus incommodus – or unidentified comparable form
    • Monograptus involutus – or unidentified comparable form
    • Monograptus nilssoni
    • Monograptus noyesensis
    • Monograptus pacificus
    • Monograptus praedubius – or unidentified related form
    • Monograptus priodon
    • Monograptus pseudodubius
    • Monograptus raitzhainesis – or unidentified related form
    • Monograptus revolutus
    • Monograptus scanicus
    • Monograptus tenuis
    • Monograptus thomasi – or unidentified related form
    • Monograptus tumescens
    • Monograptus uncinatus
    • Monograptus undulatus
    • Monograptus varians
    • Monograptus vulgaris – or unidentified comparable form
    • Monograptus yukonensis
  • Morania
  • Fossilized shell of the Devonian brachiopod Mucrospirifer
    Mucrospirifer
    • Mucrospirifer refugiensis – type locality for species
  • Murchisonia
  • Naticopsis
    • Naticopsis bowsheri
    • Naticopsis carleyana – or unidentified related form
    • Naticopsis suturicompta
  • Neogondolella
  • Neospirifer
    • Neospirifer cameratus
    • Neospirifer fasciger – or unidentified related form
    • Neospirifer striatus – tentative report
  • Nowakia
  • Interior of a fossilized shell of the Early Ordovician-modern marine bivalve Nucula
    Nucula
    • Nucula shumardiana – or unidentified related form
  • Oncagnostus
    • Oncagnostus tumidosus
  • Oonoceras
  • Orthoceras
    • Orthoceras anguliferas – or unidentified comparable form
  • Oulodus
  • Ozarkodina
    • Ozarkodina confluens
    • Ozarkodina eberleini – type locality for species
    • Ozarkodina paucidentata – or unidentified comparable form
  • Pagetia
  • Panenka
  • Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Paradoxides
    Paradoxides
  • Parafusulina – tentative report
  • Pecopteris
    • Pecopteris arborescens
    • Pecopteris hemitelioides
    • Pecopteris unita
  • Pentamerus
  • Peronopsis
  • Phalagnostus
  • Phillipsia
  • Phyllograptus
  • Pinna
  • Platyceras
  • Platycrinites
  • Pleurotomaria
  • Various conodont elements of Polygnathus
    Polygnathus
    • Polygnathus alexanderensis
    • Polygnathus angusticostatus
    • Polygnathus angustipennatus
    • Polygnathus aspelundi
    • Polygnathus borealis
    • Polygnathus brevis
    • Polygnathus churkini
    • Polygnathus costatus
    • Polygnathus eberleini
    • Polygnathus eiflius
    • Polygnathus inversus
    • Polygnathus kennettensis
    • Polygnathus linguiformis
    • Polygnathus pacificus
    • Polygnathus parawebbi
    • Polygnathus perbonus – or unidentified related form
    • Polygnathus praetrigonicus
    • Polygnathus pseudofoliatus
    • Polygnathus robusticostatus
    • Polygnathus samueli
    • Polygnathus sinuosus
    • Polygnathus trigonicus
    • Polygnathus unicornis
    • Polygnathus xylus
  • Prodentalium
  • Proetus
  • Prohedinia
  • Pseudoamplexus
  • Pseudobornia
    • Pseudobornia ursina
  • Pseudomelania
  • Fossil of the primitive Devonian vascular plant Psilophyton
    Psilophyton
  • Pteria – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
  • Ptychagnostus
  • Pugnax
  • Receptaculites
  • Rhynchonella
  • Rothpletzella
  • Sarcinula
  • Schwagerina
  • Sinutropis
  • Skenidioides
  • Solenopora
    • Solenopora compacta
    • Solenopora filiformis
  • Solenopsis – tentative report
  • Sowerbyella
  • Spathognathodus
  • Sphaerina
  • Sphaerocodium
  • Fossilized shell of the Late Ordovician-Late Triassic brachiopod Spirifer
    Spirifer
    • Spirifer schellwieni – or unidentified related form
  • Spiriferina
    • Spiriferina panderi – or unidentified related form
  • Spirorbis
  • Spyroceras
  • Stringocephalus
  • Strophomena
  • Syringopora
  • Taeniocrada
  • Teganium
  • Assemblage of fossilized shells of the Early Ordovician-Late Devonian probable mollusc Tentaculites
    Tentaculites
  • Tetradium
  • Tetragraptus
  • Triarthrus
  • Uraloceras
    • Uraloceras burtiense
    • Uraloceras fedorowi
    • Uraloceras involutum
    • Uraloceras nevadense
  • Westergaardodina
  • Restoration of the Permian shark Wodnika
    Wodnika
  • Zacanthoides

Mesozoic

Selected Mesozoic taxa of Alaska

This list of the Mesozoic life of Alaska contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Alaska and are between 252.17 and 66 million years of age.

Cenozoic

Selected Cenozoic taxa of Alaska

This list of the Cenozoic life of Alaska contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Alaska and are between 66 million and 10,000 years of age.

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References

    • Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 7 August 2017.
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