List of the Paleozoic life of Minnesota

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

A[]

  • Actinoceras
  • Actinodiscus
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Amorphognathus
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • – tentative report
  • Armenoceras

B[]

    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Reconstructive diagram (left) of a fossil (right) of the Ordovician sea urchin Bothriocidaris. The short spines which were attached to the tubercles are not drawn.
    Bothriocidaris
  • Life restoration of the Early Ordovician-Silurian trilobite Bumastus
    Bumastus
    • Bumastus orbicaudatus

C[]

  • Fossil of the Early Ordovician-Early Devonian trilobite Calymene
    Calymene
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Restoration of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian nautiloid cephalopod Cameroceras feeding on an Aphetoceras, while a quartet of swim by
    Cameroceras
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Ceratopsis
  • Ceraurinella
  • Ceraurinus
  • Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician trilobite Ceraurus
    Ceraurus
  • Charactoceras
  • Chasmatopora
  • Chidleyenoceras
  • Chirognathus
  • Assemblage of fossilized shells of the Ordovician brachiopod Cincinnetina
    Cincinnetina
    • Cincinnetina minnesotensis – type locality for species
  • Fossil of the Ordovician bryozoan Constellaria
    Constellaria
  • Cordylodus
  • Cotteroceras
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Crania
  • Craniops
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Culumbodina
    • – or unidentified related form
    • – or unidentified related form
  • Curtognathus
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Cyclonema
  • Cyptendoceras
    • – type locality for species
  • Cyrtolites

D[]

    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – tentative report
    • – or unidentified related form
    • – type locality for species
  • Cambrian graptolite Diplograptus
    Diplograptus
    • – type locality for species

E[]

    • – type locality for species
  • Ellesmeroceras
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized shells and restored appearances of the Middle-Late Ordovician nautiloid cephalopod Endoceras
    Endoceras
    • – type locality for species
  • – tentative report
  • Eridotrypa
  • Erratencrinurus
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species

F[]

  • Fayettoceras – tentative report
  • Fossil of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian trilobite Flexicalymene
    Flexicalymene
    • Flexicalymene senaria

G[]

H[]

  • Fossil of the Ordovician bryozoan ("moss animal") Hallopora
    Hallopora
  • – tentative report
  • Helcionopsis
  • Hemiphragma
  • Hindia
  • Fossilized shells of the Ordovician-Carboniferous sea snail Holopea
    Holopea
  • Homotrypa
    • – or unidentified related form
  • Hypseloconus – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species

I[]

  • Icriodus
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Illaenus
  • Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus.
    Isotelus
    • Isotelus gigas

K[]

  • Kentlandoceras
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • – tentative report
  • Fossilized shells of the Middle Ordovician-Permian nautiloid cephalopod Kionoceras
    Kionoceras
  • Kirengella
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Krausella

L[]

  • Lambeoceras
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
  • Shell of the Cambrian-modern brachiopod Lingula
    Lingula
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species

M[]

  • Manitoulinoceras
  • Michelinoceras
    • – type locality for species

N[]

  • Nanno
    • – or unidentified comparable form

O[]

    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Ormoceras – tentative report
  • Orthoceras
  • Oulodus
  • Ozarkodina

P[]

  • Panderodus
  • Periodon
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Phragmolites
  • Fossilized shell of the Ordovician brachiopod Plaesiomys
    Plaesiomys
  • Platystrophia
    • – tentative report
  • Plectoceras
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossil of the Late Ordovician cystoid echinoderm Pleurocystites
    Pleurocystites
  • Polygnathus
    • Polygnathus linguiformis
    • Polygnathus parawebbi
  • Polygrammoceras
    • – or unidentified related form
  • Prasopora
    • – type locality for species
  • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Pterotheca
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Ptilodictya – tentative report

Q[]

R[]

  • Rafinesquina
    • – type locality for species
  • – tentative report
  • Reedsoceras
  • Reteocrinus
  • Rigidella
    • – type locality for species
  • Rioceras
    • – tentative report

S[]

  • Saffordia
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossils of the Cambrian mollusc Scenella
    Scenella
    • Scenella compressa
    • Scenella obtusa
  • Similodonta
    • – type locality for species
  • Skenidioides
  • Sowerbyella
  • Spyroceras
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Stigmatella
  • Strepsodiscus
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized shell of the Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Strophomena
    Strophomena
    • Strophomena billingsi
    • Strophomena filitexta
    • Strophomena incurvata
    • Strophomena plattinensis – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
  • Subulites

T[]

  • Teichertoceras
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Thaleops
  • – or unidentified related form
  • Illustration of a fossilized shell in multiple views of the Silurian monoplacophoran mollusc Tryblidium reticulatum. Head region is to the left.
    Tryblidium

U[]

W[]

  • Westonoceras
  • Whiteavesia
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species

Z[]

  • Zittelloceras
    • – type locality for species

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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