List of the Paleozoic life of Maryland

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

A[]

  • – tentative report
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Amphiscapha
  • Fossils of the Ordovician-Permian bryozoan Amplexopora
    Amplexopora
    • – type locality for species
    • – tentative report
  • Ancyrospora
  • Archimylacris
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Atrypa
    • Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Late Devonian brachiopod Atrypa reticularis
      Atrypa reticularis – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
  • Aviculopecten

B[]

  • Bassipterus
    • – tentative report
  • Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic mollusc Bellerophon
    Bellerophon
    • – type locality for species
  • – tentative report

C[]

  • Calymene
  • Camarotoechia
    • Camarotoechia andrewsi
    • Camarotoechia litchfieldensis
    • Camarotoechia tonolowayensis
  • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
  • Chonetes
    • Chonetes novascoticus
  • Assemblage of fossilized shells of the Ordovician brachiopod Cincinnetina
    Cincinnetina
    • Cincinnetina multisecta
  • Clitendoceras
  • Composita
    • Composita ovata – tentative report
  • Fossil of the Middle Ordovician-Carboniferous horn coral Cornulites
    Cornulites
  • Crurithyris
  • Cryptolithus
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Cyphotrypa
  • Cypricardinia
    • Cypricardinia elegans

D[]

  • Dakeoceras
  • Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Middle Devonian trilobite Dalmanites
    Dalmanites
    • Dalmanites limulurus
  • Dekayia
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Life restoration of the Silurian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Dolichopterus
    Dolichopterus
  • Donaldina
    • – type locality for species

E[]

F[]

  • Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites
    Favosites
    • Favosites niagarensis – or unidentified comparable form
    • – tentative report
  • Flexicalymene

G[]

    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized shell of the Late Devonian-Late Triassic ammonoid cephalopod Goniatites
    Goniatites
  • Gyrodoma

H[]

  • Fossil of the Ordovician bryozoan ("moss animal") Hallopora
    Hallopora
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized shells of the Ordovician-Carboniferous sea snail Holopea
    Holopea
  • Hyolithes
  • – tentative report

I[]

  • – tentative report
  • Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus.
    Isotelus

J[]

K[]

L[]

    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – tentative report
  • Leiorhynchus
  • Leptaena
    • – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Shell of the Cambrian-modern brachiopod Lingula
    Lingula
  • Linoproductus
  • Life restoration of the Permian snake-like amphibian Lysorophus showing speculative egg-coiling behavior
    Lysorophus

M[]

    • – type locality for species
  • Mcqueenoceras
    • – or unidentified related form
  • Megamolgophis
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Meristina
  • Fossilized shell of the Carboniferous-Permian nautiloid cephalopod Metacoceras
    Metacoceras
    • – type locality for species
  • Monticulipora
    • – type locality for species

N[]

    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized shell of the Early Devonian – Triassic sea snail Naticopsis
    Naticopsis
  • Neospirifer
    • Neospirifer dunbari – tentative report

O[]

  • Obolella
  • Obolus – tentative report
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Restoration of the Cambrian trilobite Olenellus
    Olenellus
    • – type locality for species
    • – tentative report
  • Ormoceras
  • Orthoceras
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species

P[]

  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – tentative report
  • – type locality for genus
    • – tentative report
    • – tentative report
  • – tentative report
  • Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic sea snail Platyceras
    Platyceras
  • Pleurophorus
  • – type locality for genus
  • – tentative report
  • Proterocameroceras
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Restoration of the Silurian-Middle Devonian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Pterygotus
    Pterygotus

R[]

  • Rafinesquina
  • Rhipidomella
  • Rhombopora – tentative report
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Ribeiria
  • Rioceras
  • – tentative report

S[]

    • – type locality for species
  • Schizodus
    • – tentative report
  • Modern specimen of the marine bivalve Solemya
    Solemya
  • Solenopsis
  • Sowerbyella
  • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized shell of the Late Ordovician-Late Triassic brachiopod Spirifer
    Spirifer
    • Spirifer vanuxemi
  • Stenosiphon
  • Fossilized shell of the Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Strophomena
    Strophomena

T[]

U[]

V[]

W[]

X[]

Z[]

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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