# List of the prehistoric life of Michigan

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

## Precambrian

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

## Paleozoic
### Selected Paleozoic taxa of Michigan

* †Acidaspis
* †Actinoceras
* †Alethopteris
** †Alethopteris decurrens
* Fossil of the Carboniferous horsetail relative Annularia †Annularia
** †Annularia asteris
** †Annularia sphenophylloides
* †Athyris
* †Atrypa
** †Atrypa traversensis
* †Aulopora
** †Aulopora microbuccinata
* †Bellerophon
* †Calamites
** †Calamites carinatus
** †Calamites cistii
** †Calamites ramosus
** †Calamites schutzeiformis
** †Calamites suckowii
** †Calamites undulatus
* †Callixylon
* †Calymene
* †Camarotoechia
* Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician trilobite Ceraurus †Ceraurus
* †Chonetes
** †Chonetes ensicosta
** †Chonetes hybus
** †Chonetes pachyactis
* †Climacograptus
* †Columnaria
** †Columnaria alveolata
** †Columnaria calicina
** †Columnaria stokesi
* †Cordaites
** †Cordaites borassifolius
** †Cordaites crassinervis
** †Cordaites michiganensis
** †Cordaites palmaeformis
** †Cordaites principalis
* †Cornulites
** †Cornulites corrugatus
** †Cornulites flexuosus
** †Cornulites sterlingensis – or unidentified comparable form
* †Cyclonema
* †Cyrtolites
* †Eldredgeops
** †Eldredgeops rana
* †Encrinurus
* †Endoceras
* †Erieopterus
* †Favosites
* Flexicalymene enrolled †Flexicalymene
** †Flexicalymene croneisi
** †Flexicalymene magnipapilla – type locality for species
** †Flexicalymene meeki – or unidentified comparable form
** †Flexicalymene planilabra – type locality for species
** †Flexicalymene praelongicephala – type locality for species
** †Flexicalymene quadricapita – type locality for species
** †Flexicalymene senaria
* †Gilbertsocrinus
* †Girvanella
* †Grewingkia
** †Grewingkia canadensis
* †Hallopora
** †Hallopora subnodosa
* †Halysites
* Fossil of the Devonian colonial rugose coral Hexagonaria, also known as a Petoskey stone †Hexagonaria
** †Hexagonaria pericarinata
* †Hindia
* †Holopea
* †Icriodus
* †Isotelus
** †Isotelus gigas
* †Lepidodendron
** †Lepidodendron aculeatum
** †Lepidodendron Brittsii
** †Lepidodendron dichotomum
** †Lepidodendron lanceolatum
** †Lepidodendron lycopodiodes
** †Lepidodendron obovatum
** †Lepidodendron obvatum
** †Lepidodendron ophiurioides
** †Lepidodendron vestitum
* †Lepidostrobus
* †Lingula
* †Maelonoceras
* †Meristella
* Fossilized shell of the Devonian brachiopod Mucrospirifer †Mucrospirifer
** †Mucrospirifer attenuatus
** †Mucrospirifer grabaui
** †Mucrospirifer latus
** †Mucrospirifer mucronatus
** †Mucrospirifer profundus
** †Mucrospirifer prolificus
** †Mucrospirifer thedfordensis
* †Murchisonia
* †Naticopsis
** †Naticopsis manitobensis
* Fronds of the Carboniferous seed fern Neuropteris †Neuropteris
** †Neuropteris caudata
** †Neuropteris dilitata
** †Neuropteris flexuosa
** †Neuropteris gigntea – tentative report
** †Neuropteris harrisi – or unidentified comparable form
** †Neuropteris heterophylla – or unidentified comparable form
** †Neuropteris obliqua
** †Neuropteris rarinervis
** †Neuropteris saginawensis
** †Neuropteris scheuchzeri
** †Neuropteris Schlehani
** †Neuropteris tenuifolia
* †Nodonema
* †Nowakia
* †Nuculoidea
* †Ogygites
* †Oncoceras
* †Orthoceras
* †Panenka
* †Paraspirifer
* †Pecopteris
* †Pentamerus
* †Phragmolites
* †Plaesiomys
* Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic sea snail Platyceras †Platyceras
** †Platyceras bucculentum
** †Platyceras carinatum
** †Platyceras rarispinum
* †Platystrophia
** †Platystrophia acutilirata
** †Platystrophia annieana
** †Platystrophia clarkesvillensis
** †Platystrophia clarksvillensis
** †Platystrophia cypha – or unidentified related form
** †Platystrophia moritura
* †Pleurodictyum
* †Polygnathus
* Restoration of the Silurian trilobite Proetus †Proetus
** †Proetus chambliensis
* †Samaropsis
* †Scenella – tentative report
* †Scutellum
* †Sigillaria
* †Sphenophyllum
** †Sphenophyllum bifurcatum
** †Sphenophyllum cuneifolium
** †Sphenophyllum emarginatum
** †Sphenophyllum majus
** †Sphenophyllum saxifragaefolium
* †Sphenopteris
* †Spirifer – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
* †Spyroceras
* Life restorations of a male (foreground) and female (background) of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Stethacanthus †Stethacanthus
* †Stigmaria
* †Stigmatella
* †Strophomena
** †Strophomena alpenensis
** †Strophomena costata
** †Strophomena crassa
** †Strophomena elongata
** †Strophomena erratica
** †Strophomena extenuata
** †Strophomena heteromys
** †Strophomena huronensis
** †Strophomena inaequiradiata
** †Strophomena levidensa
** †Strophomena neglecta
** †Strophomena nutans – or unidentified comparable form
** †Strophomena parvula
** †Strophomena pentagonia
** †Strophomena planumbona
** †Strophomena potterensis
** †Strophomena sulcata
** †Strophomena tenuicosta
** †Strophomena titan
* †Syringopora
* †Tentaculites
* †Tetradium
* Restoration showing the top (left) and underside of the Late Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus †Triarthrus
** †Triarthrus eatoni

## Mesozoic

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

## Cenozoic

* Abies
** †Abies balsamea
* Acer
* †Achnanthes
** †Achnanthes biasolettiana
** †Achnanthes exigua
* A living Alces, or moose Alces
** †Alces alces
* Alnus
* †Ambrosia
* Amnicola
** †Amnicola integra
** †Amnicola limosa
* †Amphora
** †Amphora perpusilla
* Anodonta
** †Anodonta grandis – or unidentified comparable form
* Aplodinotus
** †Aplodinotus grunniens – or unidentified comparable form
* †Armiger
** †Armiger crista
* †Artemesia
* †Artemisia
* Aythya
** †Aythya affinis
* †Bakerilymnea
** †Bakerilymnea dalli
* Betula
* Bufo
** A living Anaxyrus americanus (formerly Bufo americanus), or American toad †Bufo americanus
* Candona
** †Candona caudata
** †Candona paraohioensis
** †Candona rawsoni
* Canis
* Carya
* Carychium
** †Carychium exiguum
* Castor
** †Castor canadensis
* Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Pleistocene giant beaver Castoroides †Castoroides
** †Castoroides ohioensis
* †Catinella
* †Catostomus
** †Catostomus commersoni
* †Cervalces
** †Cervalces scotti
* †Cionella
** †Cionella lubrica
* Clethrionomys
* †Columella
* †Cymbella
** †Cymbella diluviana
* †Cytherissa
** †Cytherissa lacustris
* Dicrostonyx
* Discus
** †Discus cronkhitei
* Dryopteris
* Esox
** Illustration of a living Esox lucius, or northern pike †Esox lucius
* Ferrissia
** †Ferrissia fragilis
** †Ferrissia paralellelus
* Fossaria
** †Fossaria decampi
* †Fragilaria
** †Fragilaria brevistriata
** †Fragilaria construens
** †Fragilaria lapponica
* †Fragillaria
** †Fragillaria pinnata
* †Fraxinus
* Grus
** A living Grus americana, or whooping crane †Grus americana
* Gryaulus
** †Gryaulus parvus
* Gyraulus
** †Gyraulus deflectus
** †Gyraulus parvus
* Helisoma
** †Helisoma anceps
* Hendersonia
** †Hendersonia occulta
* Juglans
* Larix
** †Larix laricina
* Lemmus
** †Lemmus trimucronatus – or unidentified comparable form
* Limnocythere
** †Limnocythere varia
* Lioplax
** †Lioplax suculosa – or unidentified comparable form
* Lycopodium
* Lymnaea
** †Lymnaea stagnalis
* †Mammut
** †Mammut americanum
* †Mammuthus
** †Mammuthus columbi
** Life restorations of a Mammut americanum, or American mastodon (right), and a Mammuthus primigenius, or wooly mammoth (left) †Mammuthus primigenius
* Meleagris
** †Meleagris gallopavo
* Microtus
** †Microtus pennsylvanicus
** †Microtus xanthognathus
* Mictomys
** †Mictomys borealis
* Mustela
** †Mustela richardsonii
* †Navicula
** †Navicula graciloides
** †Navicula minima
** †Navicula modica
** †Navicula subrotundata
* Odocoileus
** A living Odocoileus virginianus, or white-tailed deer †Odocoileus virginianus
* Ondatra
** †Ondatra zibethicus
* Ostrya
* †Pediastrum
* Perca
** †Perca flavescens
* Peromyscus
* Physella
** †Physella integra
* Picea
** †Picea glauca
** †Picea mariana
* Pinus
** †Pinus banksiana
** †Pinus resinosa
** †Pinus strobus
* Pisidium
** †Pisidium compressum
** †Pisidium dubium
** †Pisidium idahoense
** †Pisidium milium
** †Pisidium nitidum
** †Pisidium variabile
** †Pisidium ventricosum
* †Planorbella
** †Planorbella campanulata
* Restoration of a herd of alarmed Miocene-Pleistocene peccaries of the genus Platygonus. Charles R. Knight (1922). †Platygonus
** †Platygonus compressus
* †Pomoxis – or unidentified comparable form
* Populus
* †Probythinella
** †Probythinella lacustris
* Pteridium
* Pungitius
** †Pungitius pungitius – or unidentified comparable form
* Quercus
* †Rana
** †Rana catesbeiana
** †Rana clamitans
* Rangifer Rangifer
* Salix
* †Selaginella
* †Shepherdia
** †Shepherdia argentea
* Sorex
** †Sorex hoyi
* Sphaerium
** †Sphaerium striatinum
* Sphagnum
* Stagnicola
** †Stagnicola elodes
* †Thalictrum
* †Thuja
* Tilia
* †Tsuga
* Typha
* Ulmus
* Ursus
** A living Ursus americanus, or American black bear †Ursus americanus
* Vallonia
** †Vallonia costata
* Valvata
** †Valvata sincera
** †Valvata tricarinata
* Vertigo
** †Vertigo alpestris
** †Vertigo elatior
** †Vertigo gouldi – or unidentified comparable form
** †Vertigo hannai
** †Vertigo modesta
** †Vertigo morsei
** †Vertigo ovata
** †Vertigo paradoxa
* Leaves and fruit of a living Vitis, or grapevine Vitis
* Zapus
** †Zapus hudsonius – or unidentified comparable form
* Zonitoides
** †Zonitoides aboreas