List of the prehistoric life of Missouri
This list of the prehistoric life of Missouri contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Missouri.
Precambrian
The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Alabama.
Paleozoic
Selected Paleozoic taxa of Missouri
- †Achatella
- †Achistrum
- †Acutimitoceras – tentative report
Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris - †Alethopteris davreuxi
- †Alethopteris decurrens
- †Alethopteris grandini
- †Alethopteris serlii
- †Alethopteris valida
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- †Amphiscapha
- † Ananias
- †Annularia
- †Annularia sphenophylloides
- †Annularia stellata
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- †Anomphalus
- †Anthracoceras
Restoration of the Late Ordovician nautiloid cephalopod Aphetoceras being preyed upon by a Cameroceras - †Aphlebia
- †Archeognathus – type locality for genus
- †Artisia
- †Asterotheca
- †Athyris
- †Athyris fultonensis
- †Athyris lamellosa
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- †Aulochiton – type locality for genus
- †Aviculopecten
- †Aviculopecten gradicosta
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- †Avonia
- †Bellerophon
- †Bellerophon graphicus
- †Bellerophon jeffersonensis– type locality for species
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- †Bembexia
- †Beyrichoceras
- †Bisatoceras
- †Bolbocephalus
- †Bumastus
- †Bumastus trentonensis
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Fossilized stems from the Carboniferous-Permian horsetail relative Calamites - †Calamites carinatus
- †Calamites cistii
- †Calamites cruciatus
- †Calamites suckowii
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- †Calyptaulax
- †Camarotoechia
- †Camarotoechia elegantula
- †Camarotoechia horsfordi
- †Camarotoechia tuta
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- †Campbelloceras
- †Cardiocarpus
- †Cavusgnathus
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician trilobite Ceraurus - †Chelodes
- †Chonetes
- †Chonetes geniculatus
- †Chonetes mesoloba
- †Chonetes ornatus
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- †Clarkoceras
- †Cleiothyridina
- †Cleiothyridina incrassata
- †Cleiothyridina orbicularis
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- †Cliftonia
- †Coenocystis
Fossilized shell of the Late Devonian-Permian brachiopod Composita - †Composita elongata
- †Composita ovata
- †Composita subtilita
- †Composita tetralobata
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- †Conocardium
- †Coolinia
- †Cordaicarpus
- †Cordaites
- †Cordaites crassinervis
- †Cordaites principalis
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- †Cornuella – type locality for genus
- †Cornulites
- †Crania
- †Crepipora
- †Crepipora globulifera– type locality for species
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- †Curtognathus
- †Cyclonema
- †Cyclopteris
- †Cyphaspis
- †Cyrtoceras
- †Cyrtolites
- †Dalmanites
- †Deckera
- † Della
- †Dicoelosia
Illustration of the jaws of Dinichthys - †Domatoceras
- †Dorycordaites
- †Earlandia
- †Echinosphaerites
- †Edmondia
- †Ellesmeroceras
- Eocaudina
- †Eospirifer
- †Euomphalus
Life restoration of the Permian Chimaera relative Fadenia - †Favosites
- †Flexicalymene
- †Flexicalymene senaria
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- †Gervillia
- †Glossina
- †Gnathodus
- †Gnathodus typicus
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- †Gondolella
- †Halysites
- †Helcionopsis
- †Hemithecella – type locality for genus
- †Hindia
- †Holia – type locality for genus
- †Holopea
- †Hyolithes
- †Hypseloconus
- †Idiognathodus
- †Irvingella
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. - †Isotelus gigas
- †Isotelus maximus
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- †Jeffersonia
- †Kendallina
- †Kirengella
- †Kirkella – type locality for genus
- †Lepidophyllum
- †Lingula
- †Liroceras
- †Matthevia
- †Maximites
- †Meristella
- †Meristina
- †Metacoceras
- †Murchisonia – tentative report
Fossilized shell of the Early Devonian – Triassic sea snail Naticopsis - †Naticopsis judithae– type locality for species
- †Naticopsis marthaae– type locality for species
- †Naticopsis scintilla– type locality for species
- †Naticopsis wortheniana– type locality for species
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- †Neospirifer
- †Neospirifer cameratus
- †Neospirifer goreii
- †Neospirifer latus
- †Neospirifer triplicatus
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- †Neuropteris
- †Neuropteris caudata
- †Neuropteris flexuosa
- †Neuropteris heterophylla
- †Neuropteris ovata
- †Neuropteris rarinervis
- †Neuropteris scheuchzeri
- †Neuropteris tenuifolia
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- Nucula
- †Oncagnostus
- †Oncagnostus tumidosus
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Restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian cartilaginous fish Orodus - †Orthoceras
- †Orygmaspis
- †Oulodus
- †Ozarkodina
- †Palaeoniscus
- †Paradycheia – type locality for genus
- †Pecopteris
- †Pecopteris unita
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- †Phillipsia – tentative report
- †Phragmolites
- †Pinnularia
- †Platyceras
- †Pleurocystites
- †Plicochonetes
- †Polygnathus
- †Polygnathus communis
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- †Prioniodus
- †Proetus
- †Pseudopolygnathus
- †Pteridosperm
- †Pterotheca
Life restoration of the Late Devonian placoderm fish Ptyctodus - †Quadratia
- †Receptaculites
- †Remopleurides
- †Robustum– type locality for genus
- †Robustum nodum – type locality for species
- †Rota
- †Shelbyoceras – type locality for genus
- †Sigillaria
- †Skenidioides
- Solemya
- †Spathognathodus
- †Sphaerocoryphe
- †Sphenophyllum
- †Sphenophyllum emarginatum
- †Sphenophyllum longifolium
- †Sphenophyllum majus
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- †Sphenopteris
Fossilized shell of the Late Ordovician-Late Triassic brachiopod Spirifer - †Spirifer marionensis
- †Spirifer opimus
- †Spirifer rockymontanus
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- Spirorbis
- †Spyroceras
- †Strepsodiscus
- †Streptognathodus
- †Streptognathodus clarki– type locality for species
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- †Strophomena
- †Strophomena incurvata
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- †Subulites
- †Tarphyceras
Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Tricrepicephalus - †Tryblidium
- †Vellamo
- †Whiteavesia
- †Wilkingia
- †Worthenia
Mesozoic
- †Acteon
Fossilized shell of the Early Cretaceous-Oligocene turtle Adocus - †Aenona
- †Albertosaurus
- †Ambigostrea
- Amuletum
- †Anatimya
- †Anchura
- †Anomia
- †Aphrodina
- Arrhoges
Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Baculites - †Baculites tippahensis
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- †Bellifusus
- †Belliscala
- †Bullopsis
- Caestocorbula
- †Caestocorbula crassaplica
- †Caestocorbula crassiplica
- †Caestocorbula percompressa
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- †Camptonectes
- †Caveola
- Cerithiella
- †Cerithiella semirugatum
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- †Clavipholas
- Cliona
- †Clisocolus
Shell of a Corbula basket clam - Crassatella
- †Crenella
- †Crenella elegantula
- †Crenella serica
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- Cucullaea
- †Cucullaea capax
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- †Cymbophora
- †Cymella
- †Cyprimeria
Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Discoscaphites - †Discoscaphites iris
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- †Drilluta
- †Eoacteon
- †Eoharpa
- †Eubaculites
- †Eufistulana
- †Eufistulina
- †Euspira
Interior of a fossilized shell of the Jurassic-Cretaceous foam oyster Exogyra - †Exogyra costata
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- †Fulgerca
- Fusinus
- †Fusinus macnairyensis – or unidentified related form
- Glycymeris
- †Glycymeris compressa
- †Glycymeris rotundata
- †Goniochasma – tentative report
- †Granocardium
- †Gryphaeostrea
- Gyrodes
- †Hamulus
- †Helicaulax
- Juliacorbula
- †Legumen
- †Leptosolen
- Lima
- Limatula
- †Linearis
- †Liopeplum
- †Liopistha
- †Liothyris
- †Lowenstamia
- †Lycettia
- Malletia
- †Micrabacia
- †Morea
Life restoration of two of the Late Cretaceous Mosasaurus - †Mosasaurus hoffmanni
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- †Naomichelys
- †Napulus
- †Nemocardium
- †Nemodon
- Nucula
- †Nucula camia
- †Nucula percrassa
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- Nuculana
- †Opertochasma
- †Paladmete
- Panopea
- †Parmicorbula
- †Parrosaurus– type locality for genus
- †Parrosaurus missouriensis
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Fossilized shell of the Early Triassic-Pliocene marine bivalve Pholadomya - †Pholadomya occidentalis
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- †Pinna
- †Pleuriocardia
- †Praeleda
- †Protocardia
- Pseudomalaxis
- †Pterotrigonia
- †Pterotrigonia angulicostata
- †Pterotrigonia eufalensis
- †Pterotrigonia eufaulensis
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- †Pyropsis
- †Scambula
Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Scaphites - Serpula
- Striarca
- †Syncyclonema
- Tellina
- †Tellinimera
- †Tenea
- †Tenuipteria
- Trachycardium
- †Trobus
Fossilized shells of the Late Jurassic-modern tower snail Turritella - †Turritella bilira
- †Turritella chalybeatensis
- †Turritella tippana
- †Turritella vertebroides
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- †Unicardium
- †Urceolabrum
- †Veniella
- †Volutomorpha
- †Weeksia
Cenozoic
- Alligator
- †Arctodus
- Bison
- †Bootherium
- Bufo
- †Bufo woodhousei
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Life restoration of the Pliocene-Holocene camel Camelops - Canis
- †Canis dirus
- †Canis latrans
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- Cnemidophorus
- †Cnemidophorus sexlineatus
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- Crotalus
- †Crotalus horridus
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- Dasypus
- Elaphe
- †Elaphe vulpina
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- Equus
- Geomys
- Lepus
- †Lepus americanus
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- †Mammut
- Mammut americanum
- †Mammuthus
- Marmota
- †Megalonyx
- †Megalonyx jeffersonii– or unidentified comparable form
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- Microtus
- †Microtus ochrogaster– or unidentified comparable form
- †Microtus pennsylvanicus
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- †Mylohyus
- Neotoma
- †Neotoma floridana
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- Nerodia
- †Nerodia sipedon
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- Ochrotomys
- †Ochrotomys nuttalli– or unidentified comparable form
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- Odocoileus
- †Odocoileus virginianus
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- Panthera
- Panthera onca
- †Platygonus
- Procyon
- †Procyon lotor
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- Puma
- †Puma concolor– or unidentified comparable form
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- †Rana
- †Rana pipiens
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- Sceloporus
- †Sceloporus undulatus
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- Sciurus
Life restoration of the Pleistocene-Holocene saber-tooth cat Smilodon - Spermophilus
- Spilogale
- †Spilogale putorius– or unidentified comparable form
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- Sylvilagus
- †Sylvilagus aquaticus
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- Synaptomys
- †Synaptomys cooperi
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- †Tanupolama
- †Tanupolama parvus – type locality for species
A living Tapirus, or tapir - Urocyon
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References
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.