List of the prehistoric life of Kentucky
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This list of the prehistoric life of Kentucky contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Kentucky.
Precambrian
editThe Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Kentucky.
Paleozoic
editSelected Paleozoic taxa of Kentucky
editFossilized calyx of the Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Abrotocrinus - †Achatella
- †Achistrum
- †Acidaspis
- † Acrophyllum
- †Actinoceras
- †Actinocrinites
- †Agaricocrinus
Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris - †Alethopteris decurrens
- †Alethopteris lonchitica – or unidentified comparable form
- †Ammonellipsites
- †Amphiscapha
- †Amplexopora
- †Amplexus
- †Anchiopella
- †Anisophyllum
- †Annularia
- †Archaeocidaris
- †Archaeopteris
Fossils of the Carboniferous-Permian bryozoan Archimedes Fossilized teeth of the Devonian-Cretaceous shark Asteracanthus - †Athyris
- †Atrypa
- †Augustoceras
- †Aulopora
- †Aviculopecten
- †Aviculopecten germanus – or unidentified related form
- †Bellerophon
- †Beyrichoceras
- †Bisatoceras – tentative report
- †Bostonia
Life restoration of the Early Ordovician-Silurian trilobite Bumastus - †Calamites
- †Callixylon
- †Calyptaulax
- †Camarotoechia
- †Cameroceras
- †Cartersoceras
- †Ceratopsis
- †Ceraurus
- †Chasmatopora
- †Chonetes
Assemblage of fossilized shells of the Ordovician brachiopod Cincinnetina - †Cladochonus
- †Cleiothyridina
- †Climacograptus
- †Coenites
Fossilized shell of the Late Devonian-Permian brachiopod Composita - †Conostoma
- †Constellaria
- †Cordaites
- †Cornulites
- †Crania – tentative report
- †Craniops
- †Cyathocrinites
- †Cyclonema
- †Cydrocrinus
- †Cyphaspis
- †Cypricardinia
Restoration of the Cambrian-Middle Devonian nautiloid cephalopod Cyrtoceras - †Cyrtolites
- †Cystodictya
- †Decadocrinus
- †Declinognathodus
- †Diplograptus
- †Dizygocrinus
- †Edmondia
- †Emmonsia
- †Endoceras
- Eocaudina
- †Eospirifer
- †Equisetum
- †Eretmocrinus
Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites - †Fenestella
Front (left) and right side (right) views of an enrolled fossil of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian trilobite Flexicalymene - †Foerstia
- †Forbesiocrinus
- †Gastrioceras
- †Gilbertsocrinus
- †Glossina
- †Glyptocrinus
- †Glyptopleura
- †Gnathodus
- †Goniatites
- †Gravicalymene
Multiple views of a fossil of the Ordovician horn coral Grewingkia - †Hallia
- †Hallopora
- †Halysites
- †Heliophyllum
- †Helminthochiton
- †Hindia
- †Holopea
- †Hyolithes
- †Idiognathoides
- †Iocrinus
- †Isotelus
- †Kazakhstania
- †Krausella
- †Lepidodendron
- †Lepidodendron aculeatum – or unidentified comparable form
- †Lepidostrobus
Illustration of a fossilized shell of the Cambrian-Late Ordovician brachiopod Lingulella - †Liroceras
- Lithophaga – tentative report
- †Maelonoceras
- †Masonoceras – type locality for genus
- †Maximites
- †Meristella
- †Meristina – tentative report
- †Michelinoceras
- †Murchisonia
- †Murrayoceras
- †Neospirifer
Fronds of the Carboniferous seed fern Neuropteris - †Neuropteris gigantea
- †Neuropteris heterophylla
- †Neuropteris tenuifolia – or unidentified comparable form
- †Oncoceras
- †Onychocrinus
- †Ormoceras
- †Orthoceras
- †Pattersonia
- †Pecopteris
- †Pecopteris plumosa – or unidentified comparable form
- †Pentagonia
- †Pentamerus
- †Pentremites
- †Periastron
- †Phillipsia
- †Phragmolites
- †Pitys
- †Plaesiomys
- †Platyceras
- †Platycrinites
Fossilized shell of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Platystrophia - †Plectoceras
- †Pleurodictyum
- Pleurotomaria
- †Polygnathus
- †Polygrammoceras
Restoration of the Silurian trilobite Proetus - †Protosalvinia
- †Prototaxites
- †Pseudopolygnathus
- †Pterotheca
- †Quadratia
- †Scytalocrinus
- †Similodonta
- †Solenopora
- †Sowerbyella
- †Sphenophyllum
- †Sphenopteris
- †Sphenothallus
- †Spirifer
- †Spiriferina
- †Stenaster
- †Stigmaria
- †Stigmatella
Fossilized shell of the Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Strophomena - †Strophomena concordensis
- †Strophomena costellata – or unidentified comparable form
- †Strophomena neglecta
- †Strophomena planumbona
- †Strophomena sulcata
- †Subulites
- †Syringopora
- †Taxocrinus
- †Tetradium
- †Theelia
- †Treptoceras
Restoration showing the top (left) and underside of the Late Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus - †Triendoceras – tentative report
- †Trocholites
- †Ulrichicrinus
- †Whiteavesia
- †Worthenia
- †Zadelsdorfia – tentative report
Mesozoic
editThe Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Mesozoic fossils in Kentucky.
Cenozoic
edit- †Berhamniphyllum – type locality for genus
- †Berhamniphyllum claibornense – type locality for species
- Canis
- †Diplotropis
- †Diplotropis claibornensis – type locality for species
- Equus
Fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Holocene elephant relative Mammuthus, or mammoth - Microtus
- †Microtus xanthognathus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Platygonus
- Spermophilus
- †Spermophilus tridecemlineatus – or unidentified comparable form
- Taxidea
- Ursus
References
edit- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.