List of the Paleozoic life of Tennessee

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

A[]

B[]

  • Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic mollusc Bellerophon
    Bellerophon
  • Bembexia
    • – tentative report
  • Bimuria
    • – type locality for species
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Life restoration of the Early Ordovician-Silurian trilobite Bumastus
    Bumastus

C[]

D[]

    • – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Middle Devonian trilobite Dalmanites
    Dalmanites
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Dicoelosia
  • Dimerocrinites
    • Dimerocrinites carleyi
    • Dimerocrinites inornatus
    • Dimerocrinites occidentalis
  • Distomodus
    • Distomodus staurognathoides
  • Douglasocaris
  • – tentative report

E[]

  • Eatonia
  • Fossil of the Early-Middle Ordovician cystoid echinoderm Echinosphaerites
    Echinosphaerites
    • – type locality for species
  • Eodictyonella (formerly Dictyonella)
    • – informal
    • – informal
  • Eospirifer
    • Eospirifer radiatus
  • Fossilized calyx and partial stem of the Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Eretmocrinus
    Eretmocrinus
    • Eretmocrinus magnificus
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Fossilized calyx of the Silurian-Middle Devonian crinoid ("sea lily") Eucalyptocrinites
    Eucalyptocrinites
    • Eucalyptocrinites caelatus
    • Eucalyptocrinites crassus
  • – tentative report

F[]

G[]

  • Fossilized calyx and partial stem of the Devonian-Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Gilbertsocrinus
    Gilbertsocrinus
  • Girvanella
  • – tentative report
  • Glyptocrinus
    • – type locality for species
  • Gonioceras
  • Graphiadactyllis
  • Gravicalymene
  • Multiple views of a fossil of the Ordovician horn coral Grewingkia
    Grewingkia
    • Grewingkia canadensis

H[]

    • – type locality for species
  • Fossil of the Ordovician bryozoan ("moss animal") Hallopora
    Hallopora
  • Hedstroemia
  • Fossilized shell of the Silurian mollusc Helcionopsis
    Helcionopsis
  • Hibbertia
  • Hindia
  • Fossilized shells of the Ordovician-Carboniferous sea snail Holopea
    Holopea
    • – or unidentified comparable form
Fossilized shells of the Cambrian-Permian brachiopod relative Hyolitha

Hyolithes

I[]

  • Fossil of the Middle Ordovician trilobite Illaenus
    Illaenus
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus.
    Isotelus

K[]

  • Kockelella
  • Krausella

L[]

  • – tentative report
  • Lepidocoleus
  • Leptaena
    • – type locality for species
  • Illustration of a fossilized shell of the Cambrian-Late Ordovician brachiopod Lingulella
    Lingulella
  • – tentative report
  • Fossil of the Ordovician trilobite Lonchodomas
    Lonchodomas
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species

M[]

    • – type locality for species
  • Marsupiocrinus
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • 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
  • Monomorphichnus
    • – type locality for species

N[]

    • – or unidentified comparable form

O[]

  • Orthoceras
  • Ozarkodina
    • Ozarkodina confluens

P[]

    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossil of the trilobite Paciphacops
    Paciphacops
    • – type locality for species
  • Panderodus
    • – tentative report
  • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
  • Fossilized theca of the Carboniferous blastoid echinoderm ("sea bud") Pentremites
    Pentremites
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Phragmolites
    • – type locality for species
  • Phycodes
  • Phylloporina
    • – type locality for species
  • Plaesiomys
  • Fossils of the burrow ichnogenus Planolites
    Planolites
  • Platyceras – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species
  • Platycrinites
  • Fossilized shell of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Platystrophia
    Platystrophia
    • Platystrophia acutilirata
    • Platystrophia cypha
  • Plectoceras
  • Fossil of the Silurian-Carboniferous tabulate coral Pleurodictyum
    Pleurodictyum
  • Plumulites
  • Proboscina
    • – tentative report
  • – tentative report
  • Restoration of the Silurian trilobite Proetus
    Proetus
  • Protosalvinia
  • Pterotheca

Q[]

  • Quadratia

R[]

  • Rafinesquina
  • Rhipidomella
  • Rhombopora
  • Robergia
  • Fossil of the arthropod burrow ichnogenus Rusophycus
    Rusophycus

S[]

    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • Sagenocrinites
  • Illustration of fossilized shells of the mysterious Cambrian organism Salterella
    Salterella
  • – type locality for genus
    • – type locality for species
  • Septopora
  • Siphonotreta
    • – type locality for species
  • Skenidioides
  • Fossils of the Cambrian-modern worm burrow ichnogenus Skolithos
    Skolithos
  • Solenopora
    • Solenopora compacta
  • Sowerbyella
    • – type locality for species
  • Sphaerocodium – tentative report
  • – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
  • Fossilized shell of the Late Ordovician-Late Triassic brachiopod Spirifer
    Spirifer
    • – or unidentified related form
    • – or unidentified related form
  • Spirorbis
  • Spyroceras
  • Stigmatella
    • – type locality for species
    • – or unidentified comparable form
    • – tentative report
    • – or unidentified comparable form
  • – tentative report
  • Fossilized shell of the Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Strophomena
    Strophomena
    • Strophomena concordensis
    • Strophomena filitexta
    • Strophomena incurvata
    • Strophomena neglecta
    • Strophomena planumbona
  • Subulites

T[]

  • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
  • Taxocrinus
  • Fossilized shell of the Early Ordovician-Late Devonian probable mollusc Tentaculites
    Tentaculites
  • Tetradium
  • Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Tricrepicephalus
    Tricrepicephalus
  • Trimerus
    • – type locality for species
  • – tentative report
    • – type locality for species
    • – type locality for species

U[]

V[]

W[]

X[]

Z[]

    • – 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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