List of the Paleozoic life of Kansas

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This list of the Paleozoic life of Kansas contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Kansas and are between 541 and 252.17 million years of age.

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  • Life restoration of the Early Devonian-Permian "spiny shark" Acanthodes
    Acanthodes
  • Achistrum
  • Acitheca
  • Fossilized teeth of the Permian-Paleocene cartilaginous fish Acrodus
    Acrodus – tentative report
  • Acroplous
  • Actiobates – type locality for genus
    • Actiobates peabodyi – type locality for species
  • Agassizodus
    • ��Agassizodus variabilis
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  • Aglaocrinus
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  • Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris
    Alethopteris
    • Alethopteris grandini
    • Alethopteris serlii
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  • Amelacanthus
  • Ameura
  • Ammodiscus – tentative report
  • Amphiscapha
  • Amphissites
  • Ananias – tentative report
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  • Fossil of the Carboniferous horsetail relative Annularia
    Annularia
    • Annularia asteris
    • Annularia mucronata
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  • Aphlebia
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  • Araucarites – tentative report
  • Archaeolithophyllum
  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous synapsid (mammal precursor) Archaeovenator
    Archaeovenator – type locality for genus
    • Archaeovenator hamiltonensis – type locality for species
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  • Archimylacris
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  • Aristoceras
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  • Artisia
  • Asterotheca
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    • Asterotheca miltoni – or unidentified comparable form
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  • Aurikirkbya
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  • Mold fossil of a shell of the Early Devonian-Late Triassic bivalve Aviculopecten
    Aviculopecten
    • Aviculopecten arctisulcatus
    • Aviculopecten mccoyi – type locality for species
    • Aviculopecten nodocosta
    • Aviculopecten occidentalis
    • Aviculopecten peculiaris – type locality for species
    • Aviculopecten sumnerensis – type locality for species

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  • Restoration of the Carboniferous Chimaera relative Belantsea
    Belantsea – or unidentified comparable form
  • Bellerophon
    • Bellerophon graphicus – type locality for species
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  • Blattoidea
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  • Bobbodus
  • Living Botryococcus green algae
    Botryococcus
  • Bradyina
  • Bransonella
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  • Fossilized stems from the Carboniferous-Permian horsetail relative Calamites
    Calamites
    • Calamites cistii
  • Callipteris
    • Callipteris conferta
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    • Callipteris lyratifolia – tentative report
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  • Carbonita – tentative report
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  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous Chimaera relative Caseodus
    Caseodus
    • Caseodus eatoni
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  • Chaetetes
  • Chomatodus
  • Chonetes
    • Chonetes mesoloba
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  • Fossilized tooth of the shark Cladodus
    Cladodus
  • Cladophlebis
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  • Cleiothyridina
    • Cleiothyridina orbicularis
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  • Fossilized shell of the Late Devonian-Permian brachiopod Composita
    Composita
    • Composita elongata
    • Composita ovata
    • Composita subtilita
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  • Cordaicarpus
  • Fossilized foliage of the Carboniferous-Permian conifer relative Cordaites
    Cordaites
    • Cordaites principalis
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  • Crurithyris
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  • Fossil of the Carboniferous shark Ctenacanthus
    Ctenacanthus
    • Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias
  • Cyathus
  • Cyclopteris
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  • Cystodictya

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  • Delocrinus
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  • Shell of a Dentalium tusk shell
    Dentalium
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  • Dictyoclostus
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  • Fossils of the Cambrian-modern arthropod trackway ichnogenus Diplichnites
    Diplichnites
    • Diplichnites gouldi
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  • Ditomopyge – tentative report
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  • Donaldina
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  • Ductilodon – type locality for genus
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  • Dunbaria – type locality for genus
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  • Echinaria
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  • Life restoration of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Edestus
    Edestus
    • Edestus heinrichi – or unidentified comparable form
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  • Endothyra
  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous synapsid (mammal precursor) Eocasea
    Eocasea – type locality for genus
    • Eocasea martini – type locality for species
  • Eohaptodus
    • Eohaptodus garnettensis – type locality for species
  • Eoscopus – type locality for genus
    • Eoscopus lockardi – type locality for species
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  • Euconcordia – type locality for genus
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  • Euphemites
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  • Fenestella
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Assemblage of fossils of Silurian-Permian fusulinid foraminiferans

Fusulina

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  • Geinitzina
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  • Fossilized shell of the Carboniferous-Eocene bivalve Gervillia
    Gervillia
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  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous shark Glikmanius
    Glikmanius
    • Glikmanius occidentalis
  • Glyptopleura
  • Gordia
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  • Fossils of the burrow ichnogenus Helminthopsis
    Helminthopsis
  • Hesperoherpeton – type locality for genus
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  • Fossilized skeleton of the Permian-Late Cretaceous shark Hybodus
    Hybodus
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  • Restoration of the Carboniferous synapsid (mammal precursor) Ianthasaurus
    Ianthasaurus – type locality for genus
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  • Ianthodon – type locality for genus
    • Ianthodon schultzei – type locality for species
  • Isogramma

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  • Restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian ray-like cartilaginous fish Janassa (top and left)
    Janassa
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  • Juresania

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  • Phosphate nodules containing fossils of the Carboniferous Chimaera relative Kawichthys
    Kawichthys – type locality for genus
    • Kawichthys moodiei – type locality for species
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  • Kennedya – type locality for genus
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  • Kenomagnathus – type locality for genus
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  • Kirkella
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  • Fossil of the Late Jurassic horseshoe crab Mesolimulus at the end of the trackway that it produced of the ichnogenus Kouphichnium
    Kouphichnium
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  • Lecythiocrinus
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  • Restoration of the Carboniferous-Late Triassic club moss relative Lepidodendron. (1911).
    Lepidodendron
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  • Lingula
  • Linoproductus
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  • Lisca – type locality for genus
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  • Lissodus
  • Restoration of the Carboniferous-Early Triassic cartilaginous fish Listracanthus
    Listracanthus
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  • Lithophaga
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  • Life restoration of the Permian snake-like amphibian Lysorophus showing speculative egg-coiling behavior
    Lysorophus

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  • Marginifera
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  • Megactenopetalus
  • Meganeuropsis – type locality for genus
    • Meganeuropsis permiana – type locality for species
  • Megatypus – type locality for genus
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  • Mesolobus
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  • Fossilized shell of the Carboniferous-Permian nautiloid cephalopod Metacoceras
    Metacoceras
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  • Millerella
  • Minilya
  • Misthodotes – type locality for genus
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  • Fossilized shell of the Devonian-modern marine bivalve Modiolus, or horsemussel
    Modiolus
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N[]

  • Fossilized shell of the Early Devonian – Triassic sea snail Naticopsis
    Naticopsis
  • Neoaganides
  • Neospirifer
    • Neospirifer cameratus
    • Neospirifer dunbari
    • Neospirifer kansasensis
  • Fronds of the Carboniferous seed fern Neuropteris
    Neuropteris
    • Neuropteris auriculata – tentative report
    • Neuropteris odontopteroides
    • Neuropteris ovata
    • Neuropteris scheuchzeri
  • Noeggerathia
  • Norwoodia
  • Nucula
  • Nuculana
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  • Omphalotrochus
  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian synapsid (mammal precursor) Ophiacodon
    Ophiacodon – type locality for genus
    • Ophiacodon hilli – type locality for species
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  • Restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian cartilaginous fish Orodus
    Orodus
  • Orthacanthus
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  • Fossilized skeleton of the Permian bony fish Palaeoniscum
    Palaeoniscus
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  • Paleolimulus – type locality for genus
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  • Paragassizocrinus
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  • Fossils of the Late Devonian-Permian fern-like fronds Pecopteris
    Pecopteris
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    • Pecopteris hemitelioides
    • Pecopteris unita
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  • Fossilized tooth of the Carboniferous-Permian shark Petalodus
    Petalodus
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  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous reptile Petrolacosaurus
    Petrolacosaurus – type locality for genus
    • Petrolacosaurus kansensis – type locality for species
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  • Phestia
  • Phillipsia – tentative report
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  • Platyceras
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  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian bony fish Platysomus
    Platysomus
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  • Pleurotomaria
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  • Rhipidomella
  • Rhombopora
  • Roundyella

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  • Samaropsis
  • Sandalodus – or unidentified comparable form
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  • Schizodus
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  • Schizophoria
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  • Septopora
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  • Fossilized stump of the Carboniferous-Permian club moss relative Sigillaria
    Sigillaria
    • Sigillaria brardii
  • Fossilized leaves and branches of the Devonian-Triassic horsetail relative Sphenophyllum
    Sphenophyllum
    • Sphenophyllum oblongifolium
    • Sphenophyllum stoukenbergi – or unidentified comparable form
    • Sphenophyllum thonii – or unidentified comparable form
  • Sphenopteris
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  • Restoration of the Carboniferous reptile Spinoaequalis
    Spinoaequalis – type locality for genus
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  • Spirifer
    • Spirifer rockymontanus – tentative report
  • Spirorbis
  • Stemmatodus
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  • Streptognathodus
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    • Streptognathodus zethus
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  • Fossil of the Devonian tabulate coral Syringopora
    Syringopora
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  • Tabulipora
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  • Tetrataxis
  • Therates – type locality for genus
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  • Illustration in side view of several fossils of the Cambrian burrow ichnogenus Treptichnus
    Treptichnus
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  • Triticites
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  • Fossilized foliage of the Carboniferous-Permian conifer Walchia
    Walchia
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    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Wilkingia
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  • Worthenia

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References[]

  • Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
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