List of the Paleozoic life of Ohio

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

A[]

  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Achatella
  • Acidaspis
  • Acleistoceras – tentative report
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Acutichiton – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Adamanterpeton – type locality for genus
    • Adamanterpeton ohioensis – type locality for species
  • Aethaspis
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Agnesia
  • Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris
    Alethopteris
  • Ambedus – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
  • Ameura
  • Amphiscapha
  • Ordovician-Permian bryozoan Amplexopora
    Amplexopora
  • – tentative report
  • Fossil of the Carboniferous horsetail relative Annularia
    Annularia
    • Annularia asteris
    • Annularia radiata
    • Annularia sphenophylloides
    • Annularia stellata
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Anthracodromeus
    • Anthracodromeus longipes – type locality for species
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Restoration of the face of the Carboniferous reptiliomorph Anthracosaurus
    Anthracosaurus
    • – type locality for species
  • Aphlebia
  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous synapsid (mammal precursor) Archaeothyris
    Archaeothyris
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossil of the Silurian trilobite Arctinurus
    Arctinurus
  • Armenoceras
  • Arthropitys
  • Artisia
    • – type locality for species
  • Asterotheca
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Athyris
  • Atrypa
    • Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Late Devonian brachiopod Atrypa reticularis
      Atrypa reticularis
    • Atrypa reticularus – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
  • Augustoceras
  • Aulopora
    • Aulopora microbuccinata
  • Mold fossil found near Wooster of a shell of the Early Devonian-Late Triassic bivalve Aviculopecten
    Aviculopecten
    • Aviculopecten appalachianus – type locality for species
    • Aviculopecten columbianus – type locality for species
    • Aviculopecten coxanus
    • Aviculopecten fasciculatus
    • Aviculopecten occidentalis
    • Aviculopecten winchelli

B[]

  • – tentative report
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Baldwinonus
  • Barbclabornia
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic mollusc Bellerophon
    Bellerophon
    • Bellerophon jeffersonensis
    • Bellerophon spergensis
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Bembexia
    • – type locality for species
  • Bickmorites
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous amphibian Brachydectes
    Brachydectes – type locality for genus
    • Brachydectes newberryi – type locality for species
  • Broiliellus
    • – type locality for species

C[]

  • Fossilized stems from the Carboniferous-Permian horsetail relative Calamites
    Calamites
    • Calamites carinatus
    • Calamites cisti
    • Calamites suckowi
    • Calamites suckowii
    • Calamites undulatus
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • A polished round of the permineralised Late Devonian-Carboniferous wood Callixylon
    Callixylon
  • – tentative report
  • Camarotoechia
  • Restoration of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian nautiloid cephalopod Cameroceras feeding on an Aphetoceras, while a quartet of swim by
    Cameroceras
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossil of the Ordovician-Silurian tabulate coral Catenipora
    Catenipora
    • – tentative report
  • Centrorhynchus (= )
  • Ceratocephala
  • Ceratopsis
  • Ceraurinus
  • Ceraurus
  • Chagrinia
  • Charactoceras
  • Chasmatopora
  • Fossil of the Late Ordovician trilobite Chasmops
    Chasmops
  • Chaunograptus
  • Chondrites
  • Chonetes
    • – tentative report
    • – tentative report
  • Assemblage of fossilized shells found in southern Ohio of the Ordovician brachiopod Cincinnetina
    Cincinnetina
    • Cincinnetina meeki
    • Cincinnetina multisecta
  • Cladochonus
  • Fossil found in Ohio of the Late Devonian shark Cladoselache
    Cladoselache
  • Clarkesvillia
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Assemblage of fossils of the Cambrian graptolite Climacograptus
    Climacograptus
    • – tentative report
  • Coenites
  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous tetrapodomorph Colosteus
    Colosteus
    • – type locality for species
  • Columnaria
    • Columnaria calicina
  • Composita
    • Composita subtilita
  • Conchidium
  • Constellaria
  • Cordaites
    • Cordaites principalis – or unidentified comparable form
  • Fossil of the Middle Ordovician-Carboniferous horn coral Cornulites
    Cornulites
    • Cornulites flexuosus
  • Craniella
  • Crepipora
  • Crurithyris
  • Cryptolithus
  • Ctenacanthus
  • Ctenerpeton
    • – type locality for species
  • Restoration of the Permian synapsid (mammal precursor) Ctenospondylus
    Ctenospondylus
    • – type locality for species
  • Cyclonema
  • Fossilized foliage from the Carboniferous seed fern Cyclopteris
    Cyclopteris
    • – type locality for species
  • Cylindrophyllum
    • – type locality for species
  • Cypricardinia
    • Cypricardinia indenta
  • Cyrtolites
  • Fossilized shells of the Middle-Late Devonian brachiopod Cyrtospirifer
    Cyrtospirifer
  • Cystodictya
  • Cytherella

D[]

  • Fossilized calyx of the Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Decadocrinus
    Decadocrinus
  • Dekayia
  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous amphibian Diceratosaurus
    Diceratosaurus
    • Diceratosaurus brevirostris – type locality for species
  • Dictyoclostus
  • Dictyonema
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Dinichthys
    • Dinichthys herzeri
  • Life restoration of a swimming group of the Permian amphibian Diploceraspis
    Diploceraspis
  • Diplograptus
  • Discina
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Ditomopyge
  • Life restoration of the Silurian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Dolichopterus
    Dolichopterus
  • Donaldina
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Life restoration of the Late Devonian placoderm fish Dunkleosteus
    Dunkleosteus
    • – type locality for species

E[]

  • Ecdyceras
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossil found near Sylvania of the Middle-Late Devonian trilobite Eldredgeops
    Eldredgeops
    • Eldredgeops rana
  • – tentative report
  • Elpe
  • Elrodoceras
  • Emmonsia
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized shells and restored appearances of the Middle-Late Ordovician nautiloid cephalopod Endoceras
    Endoceras
  • Endothyra
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – tentative report
  • Life restoration of the Silurian-Early Devonian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Erettopterus
    Erettopterus
  • Eridotrypa
  • Erpetosaurus
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized holdfast found in Ohio of the Silurian-Middle Devonian crinoid ("sea lily") Eucalyptocrinites
    Eucalyptocrinites
    • – type locality for species
  • Euomphalus
    • Euomphalus planodorsatus
  • Euphemites
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • – tentative report
  • Life restoration of Silurian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Eurypterus
    Eurypterus
    • Eurypterus ornatus
  • Eusauropleura – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species

F[]

  • Faberia
  • Faberoceras
  • Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites
    Favosites
    • Favosites discoideus
    • Favosites favosus
    • Favosites hisingeri
    • Favosites turbinatus
  • Fayettoceras
  • Fenestella
  • Front (left) and right side (right) views of an enrolled fossil of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian trilobite Flexicalymene
    Flexicalymene
    • Flexicalymene meeki
  • Foerstia
  • Assemblage of fossils of Silurian-Permian fusulinid foraminiferans
    Fusulina

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G[]

    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Fossilized calyx and partial stem of the Devonian-Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Gilbertsocrinus
    Gilbertsocrinus
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
  • Assemblage of fossils of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian crinoid ("sea lily") Glyptocrinus
    Glyptocrinus
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Multiple views of a fossil of the Ordovician horn coral Grewingkia
    Grewingkia
    • Grewingkia rusticum

H[]

  • Fossil of the Ordovician bryozoan ("moss animal") Hallopora
    Hallopora
    • Hallopora subnodosa
  • Halysites
  • Hamiltonella
  • Helcionopsis
  • Fossil of the Middle Devonian horn coral Heliophyllum
    Heliophyllum
    • Heliophyllum halli
  • Helminthochiton
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • – tentative report
    • – tentative report
  • Heteronema – tentative report
  • Fossil of the Devonian colonial rugose coral Hexagonaria, also known as a Petoskey stone
    Hexagonaria
  • Hexameroceras
  • Hindia
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized shells of the Ordovician-Carboniferous sea snail Holopea
    Holopea
  • Holoptychus – or unidentified comparable form
  • Homotrypa
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized shells of the Cambrian-Permian brachiopod relative Hyolitha
    Hyolithes
    • – type locality for species
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I[]

    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Icriodus
  • Iocrinus
  • Isodectes
    • – type locality for species
  • Isonema
  • Isorophus
  • Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. Isotelus is the state fossil of Ohio.
    Isotelus
    • Isotelus maximus

J[]

  • Juresania

K[]

L[]

  • Lambeoceras
    • – type locality for species
  • Leiorhynchus
  • Leiosphaeridia
  • Lepidocoleus
  • External mold fossil found in Ohio of the Carboniferous tree-sized club moss relative Lepidodendron
    Lepidodendron
    • Lepidodendron aculeatum
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Leptaena
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
  • Leptophractus – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Lingula
  • Linoproductus
    • – type locality for species
  • Liroceras – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
  • – tentative report
    • – tentative report
  • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous tetrapod Loxomma
    Loxomma
    • Loxomma lintonensis – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species

M[]

  • Macrerpeton
    • – type locality for species
  • Maelonoceras
  • Manitoulinoceras
  • Fossilized shell of the Devonian ammonoid cephalopod Manticoceras
    Manticoceras
  • Marsupiocrinus
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous amphibian Megalocephalus
    Megalocephalus – type locality for genus
    • Megalocephalus lineolatus – type locality for species
  • Megalograptus
  • Mesotrypa
  • Metaxys
    • – type locality for species
  • Michelinoceras
    • – type locality for species
  • Modiolus
    • – type locality for species
  • Molgophis – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Monticulipora
  • Fossilized shell found in Paulding County of the Devonian brachiopod Mucrospirifer
    Mucrospirifer
    • Mucrospirifer grabaui – or unidentified comparable form
    • Mucrospirifer mucronatus
    • Mucrospirifer prolificus
  • Murchisonia
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • – or unidentified comparable form

N[]

    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized shell of the Early Devonian – Triassic sea snail Naticopsis
    Naticopsis
    • – type locality for species
    • Naticopsis comperta
    • Naticopsis levis
    • – type locality for species
  • Neospirifer
    • Neospirifer cameratus
    • Neospirifer dunbari
  • – tentative report
  • Fronds of the Carboniferous seed fern Neuropteris
    Neuropteris
    • Neuropteris heterophylla
    • Neuropteris ovata
    • Neuropteris scheuchzeri
  • Nodonema
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Interior of a fossilized shell of the Early Ordovician-modern marine bivalve Nucula
    Nucula
  • Nuculana
    • – or unidentified related form
  • Nyassa

O[]

  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous amphibian Odonterpeton
    Odonterpeton – type locality for genus
    • Odonterpeton triangulare – type locality for species
  • Odontopleura
  • Oestocephalus – type locality for genus
    • Oestocephalus amphiuminum – type locality for species
  • Olenoides
  • Oncoceras
    • – type locality for species
  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian synapsid (mammal precursor) Ophiacodon
    Ophiacodon
    • Ophiacodon uniformis – or unidentified comparable form
  • Orthis – tentative report
  • Orthoceras
    • – informal
  • – tentative report
    • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Oulodus
  • Ozarkodina
    • Ozarkodina confluens

P[]

    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified related form
    • – type locality for species
  • Palaeopalaemon
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Panderodus
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
  • Assemblage of the Early-Middle Devonian brachiopod Paraspirifer
    Paraspirifer
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Pattersonia
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossils of the Late Devonian-Permian fern-like fronds Pecopteris
    Pecopteris
    • Pecopteris arborescens
    • Pecopteris hemitelioides
    • Pecopteris unita
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Pentamerus
  • Petalodus
    • Fossilized tooth found in Athens County of the Carboniferous-Permiand shark Petalodus
  • Petraster
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Phestia
  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian amphibian Phlegethontia.
    Phlegethontia – type locality for genus
    • Phlegethontia linearis – type locality for species
    • Phlegethontia longissima – type locality for species
  • Phragmolites
    • Phragmolites elegans – type locality for species
  • Phylloporina
    • – type locality for species
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Pinna
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized shell of the Ordovician brachiopod Plaesiomys
    Plaesiomys
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Fossilized shell found near Wooster of the Silurian-Early Triassic sea snail Platyceras
    Platyceras
    • Platyceras bucculentum
    • Platyceras carinatum
    • Platyceras rarispinum
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized skeleton of the Carboniferous amphibian Platyrhinops
    Platyrhinops – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Platystrophia
    • Platystrophia acutilirata
    • Platystrophia annieana
    • Platystrophia clarksvillensis
    • Platystrophia cypha
    • Platystrophia moritura
  • Fossil of the Silurian-Carboniferous tabulate coral Pleurodictyum
    Pleurodictyum
  • Pleuroptyx – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Pleurorthoceras
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Poleumita
  • Various conodont elements of Polygnathus
    Polygnathus
    • Polygnathus eiflius
    • Polygnathus linguiformis
    • Polygnathus pseudofoliatus
    • Polygnathus xylus
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Posidonia
  • Proboscina
  • Productus
  • Restoration of the Silurian trilobite Proetus
    Proetus
    • – type locality for species
  • – tentative report
  • Protobalanus
    • – type locality for species
  • Protosalvinia
  • Restoration based on the "Schunnemunk tree" fossil of the Silurian-Late Devonian tree-like probable fungus Prototaxites
    Prototaxites
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Pterochiton
  • Pterotheca
  • Life restoration of the Silurian-Middle Devonian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Pterygotus
    Pterygotus
  • Ptyonius
    • Ptyonius marshii – type locality for species
  • Pugnax
  • Pustula

Q[]

R[]

  • Rafinesquina
  • Reteocrinus
    • – type locality for species
  • Rhipidomella
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Fossil of the burrow ichnogenus Rhizocorallium
    Rhizocorallium
  • Rhombopora
  • Richmondoceras
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossil found in southern Ohio of the arthropod burrow ichnogenus Rusophycus
    Rusophycus

S[]

    • – tentative report
  • Samaropsis
    • – type locality for species
  • Restoration of the Carboniferous amphibian Sauropleura
    Sauropleura – type locality for genus
    • Sauropleura pectinata – type locality for species
  • – tentative report
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Schizodus
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Schizophoria
  • – tentative report
  • – tentative report
  • Septopora
  • Fossilized stump of the Carboniferous-Permian club moss relative Sigillaria
    Sigillaria
    • Sigillaria brardii
    • Sigillaria elegans
    • – type locality for species
  • Similodonta – tentative report
  • Modern specimen of the marine bivalve Solemya
    Solemya
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Solenomorpha
  • Sowerbyella
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Fossilized leaves and branches of the Devonian-Triassic horsetail relative Sphenophyllum
    Sphenophyllum
    • Sphenophyllum majus
    • Sphenophyllum oblongifolium
  • Sphenopteris
    • Sphenopteris elegans – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Sphenothallus
    • – type locality for species
    • – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
  • Fossilized shell of the Late Ordovician-Late Triassic brachiopod Spirifer
    Spirifer
    • Spirifer opimus
    • – type locality for species
  • Spirorbis
  • Spyroceras
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Stegops
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Life restorations of a male (foreground) and female (background) of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Stethacanthus
    Stethacanthus
    • Stethacanthus altonensis
  • Stigmatella
  • Stomatopora
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
  • Fossilized shell of the Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Strophomena
    Strophomena
    • Strophomena concordensis
    • Strophomena erratica
    • Strophomena extenuata
    • Strophomena neglecta
    • Strophomena nutans
    • Strophomena planumbona
    • Strophomena sulcata
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Stylonema
  • Subulites
    • – type locality for species
  • Syntomopterus
  • Fossil of the Devonian tabulate coral Syringopora
    Syringopora – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
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T[]

  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Teichichnus
  • Fossilized shell of the Early Ordovician-Late Devonian probable mollusc Tentaculites
    Tentaculites
  • Tetradium
    • – tentative report
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Tornoceras
  • Fossilized shell of the Ordovician nautiloid cephalopod Treptoceras
    Treptoceras
  • Triarthrus
  • Triendoceras – tentative report
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Trocholites
    • – type locality for species
  • Truncatiramus – now regarded as a jr. synonym of Erettopterus[1][2]
  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous amphibian Tuditanus
    Tuditanus – type locality for genus
    • Tuditanus punctulatus – type locality for species

U[]

    • – type locality for species
  • – type locality for genus
  • Fossil of the Ordovician-Devonian sea star Urasterella
    Urasterella

V[]

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

W[]

X[]

  • Illustration of a fossil of the Carboniferous millipede Xyloiulus
    Xyloiulus
    • – type locality for species

Z[]

  • Zittelloceras
  • Fossil of the feeding trace ichnogenus Zoophycos
    Zoophycos

References[]

  1. ^ Ciurca, Samuel J.; Tetlie, O. Erik (2007). "Pterygotids (Chelicerata; Eurypterida) from the Silurian Vernon Formation of New York". Journal of Paleontology. 81 (4): 725–736. doi:10.1666/pleo0022-3360(2007)081[0725:PEFTSV]2.0.CO;2. ISSN 0022-3360.
  2. ^ Dunlop, J. A., Penney, D. & Jekel, D. 2015. A summary list of fossil spiders and their relatives. In World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 18.5 http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/resources/fossils/Fossils18.5.pdf (PDF).
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