List of the Paleozoic life of Kentucky

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

A[]

    • – informal
  • Fossilized calyx of the Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Abrotocrinus
    Abrotocrinus
    • Abrotocrinus coreyi
    • – tentative report
    • Abrotocrinus unicus
  • Achatella
  • Achistrum
    • Achistrum ludwigi
    • Achistrum nicholsoni
  • Acidaspis
  • Acrophyllum
  • Actinoceras
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized calyx and partial stem of the Devonian-Permian crinoid ("sea lily") Actinocrinites
    Actinocrinites
    • Actinocrinites gibsoni
  • Agaricocrinus
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris
    Alethopteris
    • Alethopteris decurrens
    • Alethopteris lonchitica – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Ammonellipsites
  • Amphiscapha
  • Amphissites
  • Ordovician-Permian bryozoan Amplexopora
    Amplexopora
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Amplexus
  • – tentative report
  • Anchiopella
  • Anisophyllum
    • – tentative report
  • Fossil of the Carboniferous horsetail relative Annularia
    Annularia
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized shell and spines of the Late Devonian-Permian sea urchin Archaeocidaris
    Archaeocidaris
  • Archaeopteris
  • Fossils of the Carboniferous-Permian bryozoan Archimedes
    Archimedes
    • Archimedes communis
    • Archimedes compactus
    • Archimedes distans
    • Archimedes invaginatus
    • Archimedes lativolvis
    • Archimedes macfarlani
    • Archimedes meekanoides
    • Archimedes meekanus
    • Archimedes proutanus
    • Archimedes swallowvanus
    • Archimedes terebriformis
  • Arthropitys
  • – tentative report
  • Fossilized teeth of the Devonian-Cretaceous shark Asteracanthus
    Asteracanthus
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
  • Athyris
    • Athyris fultonensis
  • Fossilized shell of the Late Ordovician-Carboniferous brachiopod Atrypa
    Atrypa
  • Augustoceras
    • – type locality for species
    • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Aulopora
    Aulopora
    • – tentative report
    • Aulopora tubiporoides
  • Aviculopecten
    • Aviculopecten germanus – or unidentified related form

B[]

    • – or unidentified related form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Beecheria
    • – tentative report
  • Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic mollusc Bellerophon
    Bellerophon
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Beyrichoceras
  • Bisatoceras – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Bostonia
    • – type locality for species
  • Life restoration of the Early Ordovician-Silurian trilobite Bumastus
    Bumastus

C[]

  • Fossilized stems from the Carboniferous-Permian horsetail relative Calamites
    Calamites
    • Calamites cistii
    • Calamites undulatus
  • A polished round of the permineralised Late Devonian-Carboniferous wood Callixylon
    Callixylon
  • Calyptaulax
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Camarotoechia
    • Camarotoechia mutata
    • – or unidentified related form
  • Fossilized shell of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian nautiloid cephalopod Cameroceras
    Cameroceras
    • – type locality for species
    • Cameroceras trentonense – or unidentified comparable form
  • – tentative report
    • – informal
    • – type locality for species
  • Cartersoceras
    • – type locality for species
  • Ceratopsis
    • – or unidentified related form
  • Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician trilobite Ceraurus
    Ceraurus
  • – tentative report
  • Chasmatopora
    • – type locality for species
  • Chonetes
  • Cincinnetina
    • Cincinnetina meeki
    • Cincinnetina multisecta
  • Cladochonus
    • Cladochonus beecheri
    • Cladochonus crassus
    • – tentative report
  • – tentative report
  • Fossilized shell of the Middle Devonian-Permian brachiopod Cleiothyridina
    Cleiothyridina
    • Cleiothyridina hirsuta
    • Cleiothyridina sublamellosa
  • Climacograptus
  • Coenites
  • Fossilized shell of the Late Devonian-Permian brachiopod Composita
    Composita
    • Composita subquadrata
    • Composita trinuclea
  • Conostoma
  • Constellaria
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Cordaites
  • Fossil of the Middle Ordovician-Carboniferous horn coral Cornulites
    Cornulites
    • – type locality for species
  • Crania – tentative report
  • Craniops
  • Cryptolithus
    • – or unidentified related form
    • – or unidentified related form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Fossilized calyx and partial stem of the Silurian-Permian crinoid ("sea lily") Cyathocrinites
    Cyathocrinites
    • – type locality for species
    • Cyathocrinites glenni
    • Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus
    • Cyathocrinites parvibrachiatus
    • – informal
    • – or unidentified related form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Cyclonema
  • – tentative report
  • Cydrocrinus
    • – tentative report
    • – tentative report
  • Cyphaspis
  • Cyphotrypa
  • Cypricardinia
  • Restoration of the Cambrian-Middle Devonian nautiloid cephalopod Cyrtoceras
    Cyrtoceras
  • Cyrtolites
    • – type locality for species
    • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
  • Cystodictya
    • Cystodictya lineata
  • Cytherella

D[]

  • Fossilized calyx of the Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Decadocrinus
    Decadocrinus
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Declinognathodus
    • – or unidentified related form
    • Declinognathodus donetzianus
  • Dekayia
    • – tentative report
    • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
  • Cambrian graptolite Diplograptus
    Diplograptus
  • Dizygocrinus
    • Dizygocrinus whitei
  • Donaldina
  • [1]
    • – type locality for species[1]

E[]

    • – tentative report
  • Emmonsia
  • Fossilized shells and restored appearances of the Middle-Late Ordovician nautiloid cephalopod Endoceras
    Endoceras
  • Endothyra
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Eocaudina
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Eospirifer
  • A living Equisetum, or horsetail
    Equisetum
  • Eretmocrinus
    • Eretmocrinus magnificus
  • Eridotrypa
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
  • Euphemites

F[]

  • Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites
    Favosites
    • Favosites arbor
    • Favosites biloculi
    • Favosites discoideus
    • Favosites favosus
    • Favosites hisingeri
    • Favosites niagarensis
    • Favosites proximatus
    • Favosites quercus
    • Favosites rotundituba
    • Favosites turbinatus
  • Fenestella
  • Front (left) and right side (right) views of an enrolled fossil of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian trilobite Flexicalymene
    Flexicalymene
    • Flexicalymene meeki
  • Foerstia
  • [1]
    • – type locality for species[1]
  • Fossilized calyx of the Devonian-Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Forbesiocrinus
    Forbesiocrinus
    • – or unidentified comparable form

G[]

  • Gastrioceras
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized calyx and partial stem of the Devonian-Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Gilbertsocrinus
    Gilbertsocrinus
    • – tentative report
    • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
  • Glossina
  • Assemblage of fossils of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian crinoid ("sea lily") Glyptocrinus
    Glyptocrinus
  • Glyptopleura
  • Gnathodus
  • Fossilized shell of the Late Devonian-Late Triassic ammonoid cephalopod Goniatites
    Goniatites
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • – tentative report
  • Gravicalymene
  • Multiple views of a fossil of the Ordovician horn coral Grewingkia
    Grewingkia
    • Grewingkia rusticum

H[]

  • Hallia
    • – tentative report
  • Fossil of the Ordovician bryozoan ("moss animal") Hallopora
    Close-up photograph of a fossil of the Ordovician bryozoan ("moss animal") Hallopora
    Hallopora
  • Fossil of the Ordovician-Silurian tabulate coral Halysites
    Halysites
    • – type locality for species
    • – tentative report
    • ��
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossil of the Middle Devonian horn coral Heliophyllum
    Heliophyllum
    • Heliophyllum halli
  • Helminthochiton
  • Hemiphragma
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Hemitrypa
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Hindia
    • – tentative report
  • Fossilized shells of the Ordovician-Carboniferous sea snail Holopea
    Holopea
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Homotrypa
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – tentative report
Fossilized shells of the Cambrian-Permian brachiopod relative Hyolitha

Hyolithes

I[]

  • Idiognathoides
    • Idiognathoides sinuatus
  • Fossil of the Ordovician crinoid ("sea lily") Iocrinus
    Iocrinus
    • – tentative report
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Isorophus
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus.
    Isotelus
    • Isotelus gigas
    • Isotelus maximus

J[]

    • ��� – or unidentified related form

K[]

  • Kazakhstania
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Krausella

L[]

  • – tentative report
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Lepidocoleus
  • Restoration of the Carboniferous-Late Triassic club moss relative Lepidodendron. (1911).
    Lepidodendron
    • Lepidodendron aculeatum – or unidentified comparable form
  • Lepidostrobus
    • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
  • Leptaena
    • – type locality for species
  • Illustration of a fossilized shell of the Cambrian-Late Ordovician brachiopod Lingulella
    Lingulella
  • Linoproductus
  • Liroceras
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Lithophaga – tentative report
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – informal
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – tentative report

M[]

  • Maelonoceras
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Marginifera
  • Masonoceras – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Maximites
    • – type locality for species
  • – tentative report
    • – informal
  • Illustration (lower right, entry 15) of a fossilized shell in front and side views of the Silurian-Late Devonian brachiopod Meristella
    Meristella
  • Meristina – tentative report
  • – tentative report
  • Mesotrypa
    • – type locality for species
  • Michelinoceras
  • – or unidentified comparable form
  • – tentative report
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified related form
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
  • Monticulipora
  • Murchisonia
  • – tentative report
  • Murrayoceras
    • – or unidentified comparable form

N[]

    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized shell of the Carboniferous-Permian brachiopod Neospirifer
    Neospirifer
    • Neospirifer cameratus
  • Neuropteris
    • Neuropteris gigantea
    • Neuropteris heterophylla
    • Neuropteris tenuifolia – or unidentified comparable form
  • – tentative report
  • Nuculana
    • – or unidentified related form
  • – tentative report

O[]

  • Oncoceras
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossil of the Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Onychocrinus
    Onychocrinus
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Ormoceras
    • – type locality for species
  • Orthis
  • Orthoceras

P[]

    • – or unidentified related form
  • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
  • Paragassizocrinus
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
  • – tentative report
  • Pattersonia
  • Pecopteris
    • Pecopteris plumosa – or unidentified comparable form
    • – informal
  • Pentagonia
  • Pentamerus
  • Fossilized theca of the Carboniferous blastoid echinoderm ("sea bud") Pentremites
    Pentremites
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • Pentremites tulipaformis
  • Periastron
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Phestia
  • Phillipsia
  • Phragmolites
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Pitys
  • Fossilized shell of the Ordovician brachiopod Plaesiomys
    Plaesiomys
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Platyceras
  • Three fossilized calyces of the Devonian-Permian crinoid ("sea lily") Platycrinites
    Platycrinites
    • – tentative report
  • Fossilized shell of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Platystrophia
    Platystrophia
    • Platystrophia acutilirata
    • Platystrophia annieana
    • Platystrophia clarkesvillensis
    • Platystrophia clarksvillensis
    • Platystrophia cypha
  • Plectoceras
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • ��
  • Fossil of the Silurian-Carboniferous tabulate coral Pleurodictyum
    Pleurodictyum
  • Pleurotomaria
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Polygnathus
    • Polygnathus communis
  • Polygrammoceras
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Prasopora
    • ���
  • Productus
  • Restoration of the Silurian trilobite Proetus
    Proetus
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Protosalvinia
  • Restoration based on the "Schunnemunk tree" fossil of the Silurian-Late Devonian tree-like probable fungus Prototaxites
    Prototaxites
  • – tentative report
  • Pseudopolygnathus
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Pterotheca

Q[]

  • Quadratia
    • – type locality for species

R[]

  • Rafinesquina
  • Rhipidomella
  • Rhombopora
  • Rhombotrypa

S[]

  • – tentative report
    • – tentative report
  • Schizodus
  • Fossilized calyx of the Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Scytalocrinus
    Scytalocrinus
    • – or unidentified related form
  • Similodonta
    • – or unidentified related form
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossils of the red alga Solenopora
    Solenopora
  • Sowerbyella
    • – type locality for species
  • Sphenophyllum
    • Sphenophyllum cuneifolium
  • Fossilized foliage of the Late-Devonian-Cretaceous seed fern Sphenopteris
    Sphenopteris
    • – type locality for species
  • Sphenothallus
  • Fossilized shell of the Late Ordovician-Late Triassic brachiopod Spirifer
    Spirifer
    • Spirifer rockymontanus
  • – tentative report
  • Spiriferina
  • Fossils of the Ordovician-Silurian brittle star Stenaster
    Stenaster
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Stenopora
  • Fossil preserved in situ of a Carboniferous tree-like club moss relative with attached Stigmaria rhizome system
    Stigmaria
  • Stigmatella
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Stomatopora
    • – tentative report
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Fossilized shell of the Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Strophomena
    Strophomena
    • Strophomena concordensis
    • Strophomena costellata – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • Strophomena neglecta
    • Strophomena planumbona
    • Strophomena sulcata
  • Subulites
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossil of the Devonian tabulate coral Syringopora
    Syringopora

T[]

  • Tabulipora
  • Fossil of the Silurian-Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Taxocrinus (right)
    Taxocrinus
  • – tentative report
  • Tetradium
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Theelia
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized shell of the Ordovician nautiloid cephalopod Treptoceras
    Treptoceras
  • Triarthrus
    • Triarthrus eatoni
  • Triendoceras – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
  • Trocholites

U[]

  • Fossilized calyx ad partial stem of the Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Ulrichicrinus
    Ulrichicrinus
    • – type locality for species

V[]

    • – or unidentified related form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified related form
    • – type locality for species

W[]

  • – type locality for genus
  • Whiteavesia
    • – type locality for species
  • Worthenia

X[]

Z[]

  • Zadelsdorfia – tentative report
    • – tentative report

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d David M. Work; Charles E. Mason (2019). "Mississippian (latest Tournaisian; middle Osagean) ammonoids from the Nancy Member of the Borden Formation, east-central Kentucky". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 293 (3): 325–342. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2019/0844.
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