List of the prehistoric life of Ohio

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This list of the prehistoric life of Ohio contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Ohio.

Precambrian[]

The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Ohio.

Paleozoic[]

Main article: List of the Paleozoic life of Ohio

Selected Paleozoic taxa of Ohio[]

  • †Achatella
  • †Acidaspis
  • †Acleistoceras – tentative report
  • †Acutichiton – type locality for genus
  • †Adamanterpeton – type locality for genus
    • †Adamanterpeton ohioensis – type locality for species
  • †Aethaspis
  • †Agnesia
  • †Alethopteris
  • †Ambedus – type locality for genus
  • †Amphiscapha
  • †Amplexopora
  • †Annularia
    • †Annularia asteris
    • †Annularia radiata
    • †Annularia sphenophylloides
    • †Annularia stellata
  • †Anthracodromeus
    • †Anthracodromeus longipes – type locality for species
  • Restoration of the face of the Carboniferous reptiliomorph Anthracosaurus
    †Anthracosaurus
  • †Aphlebia
  • †Archaeothyris
  • †Arctinurus
  • †Armenoceras
  • †Artisia
  • †Asterotheca
  • †Athyris
  • †Atrypa
    • †Atrypa reticularis
    • †Atrypa reticularus – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
  • †Augustoceras
  • †Aulopora
    • †Aulopora microbuccinata
  • †Aviculopecten
    • †Aviculopecten appalachianus – type locality for species
    • †Aviculopecten columbianus – type locality for species
    • †Aviculopecten coxanus
    • †Aviculopecten fasciculatus
    • †Aviculopecten occidentalis
    • †Aviculopecten winchelli
  • †Baldwinonus
  • †Bellerophon
    • †Bellerophon jeffersonensis
    • †Bellerophon spergensis
  • †Bembexia
  • †Bickmorites
  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous amphibian Brachydectes
    †Brachydectes – type locality for genus
    • †Brachydectes newberryi – type locality for species
  • †Broiliellus
  • †Calamites
    • †Calamites carinatus
    • †Calamites cisti
    • †Calamites suckowi
    • †Calamites suckowii
    • †Calamites undulatus
  • †Callixylon
  • †Camarotoechia
  • Restoration of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian nautiloid cephalopod Cameroceras feeding on an Aphetoceras, while a quartet of swim by
    †Cameroceras
  • †Catenipora
  • †
  • †Ceratocephala
  • †Ceratopsis
  • †Ceraurinus
  • †Ceraurus
  • †Chagrinia
  • †Charactoceras
  • †Chasmatopora
  • †Chasmops
  • †Chaunograptus
  • †Chondrites
  • †Chonetes
  • Assemblage of fossilized shells of the Ordovician brachiopod Cincinnetina
    †Cincinnetina
    • †Cincinnetina meeki
    • †Cincinnetina multisecta
  • †Cladochonus
  • †Cladoselache
  • †Clarkesvillia
  • †Climacograptus
  • †Coenites
  • †Colosteus
  • †Columnaria
    • †Columnaria calicina
  • †Composita
    • †Composita subtilita
  • †Conchidium
  • †Constellaria
  • †Cordaites
    • †Cordaites principalis – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Cornulites
    • †Cornulites flexuosus
  • Craniella
  • †Crepipora
  • †Ctenacanthus
  • †Ctenerpeton
  • Restoration of the Permian synapsid (mammal precursor) Ctenospondylus
    †Ctenospondylus
  • †Cyclonema
  • †Cyclopteris
  • †Cypricardinia
    • †Cypricardinia indenta
  • †Cyrtolites
  • †Cyrtospirifer
  • †Cystodictya
  • †Decadocrinus
  • †Diceratosaurus
    • †Diceratosaurus brevirostris – type locality for species
  • †Dictyonema
  • †Dinichthys
    • †Dinichthys herzeri
  • †Diploceraspis
  • †Diplograptus
  • Discina
  • †Dolichopterus
  • Mounted skull of the Late Devonian placoderm fish Dunkleosteus
    †Dunkleosteus
  • †Ecdyceras
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  • †
  • †Eldredgeops
    • †Eldredgeops rana
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  • †Elpe
  • †Elrodoceras
  • †Emmonsia
  • †Endoceras
  • †Erettopterus
  • †Erpetosaurus
  • †Eucalyptocrinites
  • †Euomphalus
    • †Euomphalus planodorsatus
  • Life restoration of Silurian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Eurypterus
    †Eurypterus
    • †Eurypterus ornatus
  • †Eusauropleura – type locality for genus
  • †Faberia
  • †Faberoceras
  • †Favosites
    • †Favosites discoideus
    • †Favosites favosus
    • †Favosites hisingeri
    • †Favosites turbinatus
  • †Fayettoceras
  • †Fenestella
  • †Flexicalymene
    • †Flexicalymene meeki
  • †Foerstia
  • †Fusulina
  • †Gilbertsocrinus
  • †Glyptocrinus
  • Multiple views of a fossil of the Ordovician horn coral Grewingkia
    †Grewingkia
    • †Grewingkia rusticum
  • †Hallopora
    • †Hallopora subnodosa
  • †Halysites
  • †Hamiltonella
  • †Helcionopsis
  • †Heliophyllum
    • †Heliophyllum halli
  • †Helminthochiton
  • †Hexagonaria
  • †Hexameroceras
  • †Hindia
  • †Holopea
  • †Holoptychus – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Hyolithes
  • †Icriodus
  • †Iocrinus
  • †Isodectes
  • †Isonema
  • Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus.
    †Isotelus
    • †Isotelus maximus
  • †Kindleoceras
  • †Kionoceras
  • †Kockelella
  • †Lambeoceras
  • †Leiosphaeridia
  • †Lepidodendron
    • †Lepidodendron aculeatum
  • Lingula
  • †Liroceras – tentative report
  • †Loxomma
    • †Loxomma lintonensis – type locality for species
  • †Maelonoceras
  • †Manitoulinoceras
  • †Manticoceras
  • †Marsupiocrinus
  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous amphibian Megalocephalus
    †Megalocephalus – type locality for genus
    • †Megalocephalus lineolatus – type locality for species
  • †Megalograptus
  • †Metaxys
  • †Michelinoceras
  • Modiolus
  • †Molgophis – type locality for genus
  • †Mucrospirifer
    • †Mucrospirifer grabaui – or unidentified comparable form
    • †Mucrospirifer mucronatus
    • †Mucrospirifer prolificus
  • †Murchisonia
  • Fossilized shell of the Early Devonian – Triassic sea snail Naticopsis
    †Naticopsis
    • †Naticopsis comperta
    • †Naticopsis levis
  • †Neospirifer
    • †Neospirifer cameratus
    • †Neospirifer dunbari
  • †Neuropteris
    • †Neuropteris heterophylla
    • †Neuropteris ovata
    • †Neuropteris scheuchzeri
  • †Nodonema
  • Nucula
  • † Nyassa
  • †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
  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian synapsid (mammal precursor) Ophiacodon
    †Ophiacodon
    • †Ophiacodon uniformis – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Orthoceras
  • †Oulodus
  • †Ozarkodina
    • †Ozarkodina confluens
  • †Paraspirifer
  • †Pattersonia
  • †Pecopteris
    • †Pecopteris arborescens
    • †Pecopteris hemitelioides
    • †Pecopteris unita
  • †Pentamerus
  • †Petalodus
  • 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
  • Pinna
  • †Plaesiomys
  • †Platyceras
    • †Platyceras bucculentum
    • †Platyceras carinatum
    • †Platyceras rarispinum
  • †Platyrhinops – type locality for genus
  • Fossilized shell of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Platystrophia
    †Platystrophia
    • †Platystrophia acutilirata
    • †Platystrophia annieana
    • †Platystrophia clarksvillensis
    • †Platystrophia cypha
    • †Platystrophia moritura
  • †Pleurodictyum
  • †Pleuroptyx – type locality for genus
  • †Pleurorthoceras
  • †Poleumita
  • †Polygnathus
    • †Polygnathus eiflius
    • †Polygnathus linguiformis
    • †Polygnathus pseudofoliatus
    • †Polygnathus xylus
  • †Posidonia
  • †Proetus
  • †Protobalanus
  • †Protosalvinia
  • Life restoration with a conifer-like body plan of the Silurian-Late Devonian tree-like probable fungus Prototaxites. John William Dawson (1888).
    †Prototaxites
  • †Pterochiton
  • †Pterotheca
  • †Pterygotus
  • †Ptyonius
    • †Ptyonius marshii – type locality for species
  • †Pugnax
  • †Reteocrinus
  • †Rhizocorallium
  • †Richmondoceras
  • †Rusophycus
  • †Samaropsis
  • †Sauropleura – type locality for genus
    • †Sauropleura pectinata – type locality for species
  • †Sigillaria
    • †Sigillaria brardii
    • †Sigillaria elegans
  • †Similodonta – tentative report
  • Solemya
  • †Solenomorpha
  • †Sowerbyella
  • Fossilized leaves and branches of the Devonian-Triassic horsetail relative Sphenophyllum
    †Sphenophyllum
    • †Sphenophyllum majus
    • †Sphenophyllum oblongifolium
  • †Sphenopteris
    • †Sphenopteris elegans – or unidentified comparable form
  • †Sphenothallus
  • †Spirifer
    • †Spirifer opimus
  • Spirorbis
  • †Spyroceras
  • †Stegops
  • Life restorations of a male (foreground) and female (background) of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Stethacanthus
    †Stethacanthus
    • †Stethacanthus altonensis
  • †Stigmatella
  • †Strophomena
    • †Strophomena concordensis
    • †Strophomena erratica
    • †Strophomena extenuata
    • †Strophomena neglecta
    • †Strophomena nutans
    • †Strophomena planumbona
    • †Strophomena sulcata
  • †Stylonema
  • †Subulites
  • †Syntomopterus
  • †Syringopora – tentative report
  • †Teichichnus
  • †Tentaculites
  • †Tetradium
  • †Tornoceras
  • †Treptoceras
  • †Triarthrus
  • †Triendoceras – tentative report
  • †Trocholites
  • Life restoration of the Carboniferous amphibian Tuditanus
    †Tuditanus – type locality for genus
    • †Tuditanus punctulatus – type locality for species
  • †Urasterella
  • †Vinella
  • †Walchia
  • †Westonoceras
  • †Whiteavesia
  • †Wilkingia
  • †Worthenia
  • †Wurmiella
    • †Wurmiella excavata
  • †Xyloiulus
  • †Zittelloceras
  • †Zoophycos

Mesozoic[]

The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Mesozoic fossils in Ohio.

Cenozoic[]

  • Acella
    • †
  • Amnicola
  • †Arctodus
    • †Arctodus simus
  • †Bembidium
    • † – type locality for species
  • Castor
    • †Castor canadensis
  • Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Pleistocene giant beaver Castoroides
    †Castoroides
    • †Castoroides ohioensis
  • †Cervalces
    • †Cervalces scotti
  • Clethrionomys
    • †Clethrionomys gapperi
  • Equus
  • Erethizon
    • †Erethizon dorsatum
  • Fossaria
  • Gyraulus
  • Helisoma
  • Helophorus
    • † – type locality for species
  • †Hydrochus
    • † – type locality for species
  • Lucina
  • Lymnaea
  • †Mammut
    • Restoration of a Mammut americanum, or American mastodon
      †Mammut americanum
  • †Megalonyx
    • †Megalonyx jeffersonii
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  • Microtus
    • †Microtus xanthognathus
    • †
  • Mustela
    • †
    • †Mustela richardsonii
  • Odocoileus
    • A living Odocoileus virginianus, or white-tailed deer
      †Odocoileus virginianus
  • Ondatra
    • †Ondatra zibethicus
  • Pekania
    • †Pekania pennanti
  • Phenacomys
    • †Phenacomys intermedius
  • Physa
    • †Physa heterostropha – or unidentified comparable form
  • Picea
  • Planorbis
  • Restoration of a herd of alarmed Miocene-Pleistocene peccaries of the genus Platygonus. Charles R. Knight (1922).
    †Platygonus
    • †Platygonus compressus
  • Promenetus
    • †Promenetus exacuous
  • Pterostichus
    • † – type locality for species
  • Rangifer
    • †Rangifer tarandus
  • Sorex
    • †Sorex cinereus
    • †Sorex hoyi
  • Sphaerium
  • Stagnicola
    • †
  • Ursus
    • A living Ursus arctos, or brown bear
      †Ursus arctos – type locality for species
  • Valvata

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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