List of the prehistoric life of Iowa
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This list of the prehistoric life of Iowa contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Iowa.
Precambrian
editThe Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Alabama.
Paleozoic
editSelected Paleozoic taxa of Iowa
edit- †Acidaspis
Fossilized calyx and partial stem of the Devonian-Permian crinoid ("sea lily") Actinocrinites - †Agassizodus
- †Aglaocrinus
- †Amplexus
- †Anataphrus
- †Anomphalus
- †Archaeogastropod
- †Arctinurus
- †Athyris
- †Athyris fultonensis – or unidentified comparable form
Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Late Devonian brachiopod Atrypa reticularis - †Aviculopecten
- †Bellerophon
- †Bembexia
- †Bothriocidaris
- †Bumastus
- †Calymene
- †Camarotoechia
- †Cardiola
- †Catenipora
- †Ceratocephala
- †Ceratopsis
- †Ceraurus
- †Charactoceras
Fossil of the Cambrian-Middle Devonian trilobite Cheirurus - †Chomatodus
- †Chonetes
- †Cleiothyridina
- †Cleiothyridina incrassata – or unidentified comparable form
- †Cleiothyridina sublamellosa
- †Climacograptus
- †Coenites
Fossilized shell of the Late Devonian-Permian brachiopod Composita - †Composita humilis – tentative report
- †Composita trinuclea
- †Conocardium
- †Coolinia
- †Cornulites
- †Crania
- †Crotalocrinites
- †Curtognathus
- †Cyathocrinites
- †Cyclonema
- †Cyphaspis
- †Cypricardinia
- †Cyrtolites
Fossilized shells of the Middle-Late Devonian brachiopod Cyrtospirifer - †Cystodictya
- †Dalmanites
- †Decadocrinus
- †Deiphon
- †Deltaherpeton – type locality for genus
- †Dentalium
- †Dicoelosia
- †Dimerocrinites
- †Diplograptus
- †Diplograptus modestus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Discosorus
- †Earlandia
Life restoration of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Edestus - †Edmondia
- †Eldredgeops
- †Ellesmeroceras
- †Encrinurus
- †Endoceras
- Eocaudina
- †Eodictyonella
- †Eophacops
- †Eospirifer
- †Eucalyptocrinites
- †Euomphalus
- †Favosites
- †Fenestella
Front (left) and right side (right) views of an enrolled fossil of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian trilobite Flexicalymene - †Goniatites
- †Gravicalymene
- †Greenops
- †Grewingkia
- †Gyroceras
- †Hallopora
- †Halysites
- †Harpidium
- †Heliophyllum
- †Hexagonaria
- †Hindia
- †Holopea
- †Huronia
- †Hyolithes
- †Icriodus
- †Idiognathodus
Life restoration of the Carboniferous Chimaera relative Iniopteryx - †Iocrinus
- †Isotelus
- †Kayoceras
- †Kionoceras
- †Krausella
- †Leptopora
- †Lingula
- †Manticoceras
- †Marsupiocrinus
Illustration (lower right, entry 15) of a fossilized shell in front and side views of the Silurian-Late Devonian brachiopod Meristella - †Meristina
- †Michelia
- †Michelinoceras
- †Murchisonia
- †Mycterops
- †Mystrocephala
- †Naticopsis
- †Naticopsis depressa – type locality for species
- †Neospirifer
- Nucula
- †Odontopleura
Life restoration of the Middle-Late Devonian lobe-finned fish Onychodus - †Orthoceras
- †Oulodus
- †Ozarkodina
- †Pachyphyllum
- †Paladin
- †Palmatolepis
- †Peachocaris
- †Pentamerus
- †Pentremites
- †Periechocrinus
Fossilized tooth of the Carboniferous-Permian shark Petalodus - †Phacops
- †Phillipsia
- †Pinnocaris
- †Plaesiomys
- †Platyceras
- †Platycrinites
- †Platystrophia
- †Plectodonta
- †Pleurocystites
- Pleurotomaria – tentative report
- †Plicochonetes
- †Poleumita
- †Polygnathus
- †Posidonia
- †Proetus
Life restoration of the Late Devonian placoderm fish Ptyctodus - †Rhynchodus
- †Rigidella
- †Scutellum
- †Scytalocrinus
- †Septemchiton
- †Sigournea – type locality for genus
- †Sigournea multidentata – type locality for species
- †Similodonta
- †Skenidioides – tentative report
- †Sowerbyella
- †Sphenothallus
- †Spirifer
- †Spiriferina
- Spirorbis
- †Spyroceras
Life restorations of a male (foreground) and female (background) of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Stethacanthus - †Streptognathodus
- †Strophomena
- †Stylonema – tentative report
- †Syringopora
- †Taxocrinus
- †Tranodis
- †Whatcheeria – type locality for genus
- †Worthenia
- †Youngia
Mesozoic
edit- †Arcellites
- †Arcellites crillensis – type locality for species
- †Arcellites disciformis
- †Balmeisporites
- †Balmeisporites auriculata – type locality for species
- †Chrysotheca
- †Chrysotheca dakotaensis – type locality for species
- †Chrysotheca diskoensis
- †Chrysotheca levis
- Coptothyris
- †Coptothyris dakotaensis – type locality for species
- †Dunveganoceras
Fossilized shell of the Early Jurassic-Late Cretaceous marine bivalve Inoceramus with a human indicating its size - †Metengonoceras
- †Microcarpolithes
- †Minerisporites
- †Molaspora – type locality for genus
- †Molaspora lobata
- †Molaspora rugosa – type locality for species
- †Perotrilites
- †Perotrilites bursatus – type locality for species
- †Perotrilites convolutus – type locality for species
- †Pilularia
- †Regnellidium
- †Spermatites
Cenozoic
edit- Blarina
Life restoration of the Pliocene-Holocene camel Camelops - Canis
- Castor
- †Castoroides
- Didelphis
- Equus
- †Euceratherium – tentative report
- Geomys
- Lepus
- Lontra
- †Mammut
- †Mammuthus
Life restorations of a Mammut americanum, or American mastodon (right), and a Mammuthus primigenius, or wooly mammoth (left)
- †Megalonyx
- Microtus
- Mictomys
- Odocoileus
- Ondatra
- Panthera
- †Paramylodon
- †Platygonus
- Procyon
- Rangifer
- Sciurus
- Sorex
- †Sorex dispar – or unidentified comparable form
Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Pleistocene elephant relative Stegomastodon - †Stegomastodon aftoniae – type locality for species
- Sylvilagus
- Taxidea
- Ursus
- Vulpes
References
edit- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.