# List of the prehistoric life of Indiana

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

## Precambrian

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

## Paleozoic
### Selected Paleozoic taxa of Indiana

* Fossilized calyx of the Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Abrotocrinus †Abrotocrinus
** †Abrotocrinus coreyi
** †Abrotocrinus nodosus
** †Abrotocrinus unicus
* †Achistrum
** †Achistrum brevis – type locality for species
** †Achistrum ludwigi
** †Achistrum nicholsoni
** †Achistrum triassicum
* †Acidaspis
* † Acrophyllum
* †Actinocrinites
** †Actinocrinites gibsoni
** †Actinocrinites grandissimus
** †Actinocrinites lobatus – tentative report
** †Actinocrinites lowei
* †Agaricocrinus
** †Agaricocrinus americanus
* †Aipoceras – tentative report
* Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris †Alethopteris
** †Alethopteris davreuxi
** †Alethopteris decurrens
** †Alethopteris grandini
** †Alethopteris lonchitica
** †Alethopteris owenii
** †Alethopteris serlii
* Ammodiscus
* †Ammonellipsites
* †Amplexopora
* †Amplexus
* †Anchiopsis
* †Angustidontus
* †Annularia
** †Annularia mucronata
** †Annularia radiata
** †Annularia sphenophylloides
** †Annularia stellata
* †Aphlebia
* Fossils of the Carboniferous-Permian bryozoan Archimedes †Archimedes
** †Archimedes communis
** †Archimedes compactus
** †Archimedes distans
** †Archimedes intermedius
** †Archimedes invaginatus
** †Archimedes lativolvis
** †Archimedes macfarlani
** †Archimedes meekanoides
** †Archimedes meekanus
** †Archimedes negligens – or unidentified comparable form
** †Archimedes proutanus
** †Archimedes swallovanus
** †Archimedes swallowvanus
** †Archimedes symmetricus
** †Archimedes terebriformis
* †Arctinurus
* †Armenoceras
* †Artisia
* †Asterotheca
** †Asterotheca crenulata
** †Asterotheca cyathea
** †Asterotheca hemitelliodes
** †Asterotheca miltoni
** †Asterotheca oreopteridia
* Life restoration of the Early Devonian club moss relative Asteroxylon †Asteroxylon
* †Athyris
** †Athyris fultonensis
** †Athyris lamellosa
** †Athyris parvirostra
** †Athyris spiriferoides
* †Atrypa
** †Atrypa newsomensis
** †Atrypa parva – or unidentified comparable form
** †Atrypa reticularis
** †Atrypa reticularus
* †Aulacophyllum
* †Aulopora
** †Aulopora edithana
** †Aulopora microbuccinata
** †Aulopora tubiporoides
* †Aviculopecten
** †Aviculopecten colletti
** †Aviculopecten invalidus
** †Aviculopecten spinuliferus
** †Aviculopecten terminalis
* † Avonia – tentative report
* † Avonia
* Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic mollusc Bellerophon †Bellerophon
** †Bellerophon gibsoni – type locality for species
** †Bellerophon jeffersonensis
** †Bellerophon spergensis – type locality for species
* †Bembexia
* †Beyrichoceras
* †Bordonia
* †Bumastus
** †Bumastus armatus – or unidentified comparable form
** †Bumastus insignis
** †Bumastus ioxus
** †Bumastus niagarense – or unidentified comparable form
* †Calamites
** †Calamites cruciatus
** †Calamites suckowii
* Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous seed fern Callipteridium †Callipteridium
* †Callixylon
* †Calymene
** †Calymene breviceps
** †Calymene celebra
** †Calymene niagarensis
* †Camarotoechia
** †Camarotoechia gregaria – tentative report
** †Camarotoechia horsfordi
** †Camarotoechia mutata
** †Camarotoechia neglecta – or unidentified comparable form
** †Camarotoechia pisa
** †Camarotoechia tethys
* Fossil of the Silurian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Carcinosoma †Carcinosoma
* †Caseodus
** †Caseodus eatoni – type locality for species
* †Ceramopora
** †Ceramopora imbricata
** †Ceramopora vesicularis
* †Ceraurinus
* †Ceraurus
* †Chancelloria
* †Charactoceras
* †Cheirurus
* †Chomatodus
* †Chondrites
* †Chonetes
** †Chonetes geniculatus
* †Cincinnetina
** †Cincinnetina meeki
** †Cincinnetina multisecta
* †Cladochonus
** †Cladochonus beecheri
** †Cladochonus crassus
** †Cladochonus longi
* Fossilized shell of the Middle Devonian-Permian brachiopod Cleiothyridina †Cleiothyridina
** †Cleiothyridina hirsuta
** †Cleiothyridina sublamellosa
* †Clorinda – tentative report
* †Coenites
** †Coenites brownsportensis
** †Coenites cryptodens – or unidentified comparable form
** †Coenites laqueata – or unidentified comparable form
** †Coenites rectilineatus
* †Columnaria
** †Columnaria alveolata
* †Composita
** †Composita subquadrata
** †Composita sulcata
** †Composita trinuclea
* †Conchidium
* †Conocardium
** †Conocardium richmondense – type locality for species
* Fossil of the Ordovician bryozoan Constellaria †Constellaria
* †Coolinia
* †Cordaites
** †Cordaites borassifolius
** †Cordaites crassinervis
** †Cordaites principalis
* †Cornulites
** †Cornulites formosa
** †Cornulites proprius
* †Coronura
* †Crania
* †Craniops
* †Crotalocrinites
* Fossilized calyx and partial stem of the Silurian-Permian crinoid ("sea lily") Cyathocrinites †Cyathocrinites
** †Cyathocrinites glenni – or unidentified comparable form
** †Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus
** †Cyathocrinites parvibrachiatus
** †Cyathocrinites pauli
** †Cyathocrinites sanduskyensis
** †Cyathocrinites striatissimus
** †Cyathocrinites wilsoni
* †Cyclonema
* †Cyclopteris
* †Cyphaspis
* †Cypricardinia
** †Cypricardinia indenta
** †Cypricardinia scitula
* †Cyrtolites
* †Cyrtospirifer
* †Cystodictya
** †Cystodictya lineata
* Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Middle Devonian trilobite Dalmanites †Dalmanites
** †Dalmanites halli
** †Dalmanites limulurus
* †Danaea
* †Decadocrinus
** †Decadocrinus depressus
* †Dicoelosia
* †Dictyonema
* †Dimerocrinites
** †Dimerocrinites carleyi
** †Dimerocrinites inornatus
** †Dimerocrinites occidentalis
* †Dinicthys
* †Dizygocrinus
** †Dizygocrinus indianaensis
** †Dizygocrinus indianensis
** †Dizygocrinus venustus – or unidentified comparable form
** †Dizygocrinus whitei – or unidentified comparable form
* †Drepanopterus
* Life restoration of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Edestus †Edestus
** †Edestus heinrichi
* †Edmondia
* †Eldredgeops
** †Eldredgeops rana
* †Elytron
* †Emmonsia
* †Encrinurus
* Eocaudina
* †Eodictyonella
* †Eospirifer
** †Eospirifer eudora
** †Eospirifer foggi
** †Eospirifer niagarensis
** †Eospirifer radiatus
* †Eretmocrinus
** †Eretmocrinus cassedayanus – tentative report
** †Eretmocrinus magnificus
* †Erieopterus
* †Eucalyptocrinites
** †Eucalyptocrinites caelatus
** †Eucalyptocrinites crassus
** †Eucalyptocrinites tuberculatus
* Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites †Favosites
** †Favosites arbor
** †Favosites baculus
** †Favosites biloculi
** †Favosites clelandi
** †Favosites cristatus
** †Favosites discoideus
** †Favosites favosus
** †Favosites forbesi
** †Favosites forbsei
** †Favosites goodwini
** †Favosites hisingeri
** †Favosites hispidus – or unidentified comparable form
** †Favosites impeditus
** †Favosites mundus
** †Favosites niagarensis
** †Favosites occidentalis
** †Favosites patellatus – type locality for species
** †Favosites pirum
** †Favosites placentus
** †Favosites proximatus
** †Favosites quercus
** †Favosites ramulosus
** †Favosites rotundituba
** †Favosites spinigerus
** †Favosites turbinatus
* †Fayettoceras
* †Fenestella
** †Fenestella burlingtonensis
** †Fenestella cestriensis
** †Fenestella exigua
** †Fenestella matheri
* †Fletcheria
* †Flexicalymene
** †Flexicalymene meeki
* †Gilbertsocrinus
* Life restoration of the Carboniferous shark Glikmanius †Glikmanius
** †Glikmanius occidentalis
* †Glyptambon
* †Glyptocrinus
* †Gomphoceras
* †Greenops
* †Grewingkia
** †Grewingkia canadensis
** †Grewingkia rusticum
* †Hallopora
** †Hallopora elegantula
** †Hallopora subnodosa
* Fossil of the Ordovician-Silurian tabulate coral Halysites †Halysites
** †Halysites catenularia
** †Halysites labyrinthicus
** †Halysites microporus
* †Harpidium – tentative report
* †Heliophyllum
** †Heliophyllum agassizi
** †Heliophyllum denticulatum
** †Heliophyllum halli
** †Heliophyllum incrassatum
** †Heliophyllum latericrescens
** †Heliophyllum venatum
** †Heliophyllum verticale
* Fossil of the Devonian colonial rugose coral Hexagonaria, also known as a Petoskey stone †Hexagonaria
** †Hexagonaria bella
** †Hexagonaria cincta
** †Hexagonaria curta
** †Hexagonaria ovoidea
** †Hexagonaria partita
** †Hexagonaria ponderosa
** †Hexagonaria prisma
* †Hexameroceras
* †Hindia
* †Holopea
* †Hyolithes
* †Icriodus
* †Illaenus
* Life restoration of the Carboniferous Chimaera relative Iniopteryx †Iniopteryx
** †Iniopteryx rushlaui
* †Iocrinus
* †Isotelus
** †Isotelus gigas
** †Isotelus maximus
* †Kindleoceras
* †Kingstonia
* †Kionoceras
* †Kokomopterus
* †Lambeoceras
* Restoration of the Carboniferous-Late Triassic club moss relative Lepidodendron. Eli Heimans (1911). †Lepidodendron
** †Lepidodendron aculeatum
** †Lepidodendron dichotomum
** †Lepidodendron lanceolatum – tentative report
** †Lepidodendron obovatum
** †Lepidodendron vestitum
* †Lepidophyllum
* †Lepidostrobus
* †Lichas
* †Lingula
* †Llanoaspis – tentative report
* †Manitoulinoceras
* †Marsupiocrinus
* †Martinia
* †Melonechinus
* †Meristella
* †Meristina
* †Microplasma
* †Mucrospirifer
** †Mucrospirifer mucronatus
** †Mucrospirifer profundus
** †Mucrospirifer prolificus
* †Murchisonia
* †Natica
* †Naticopsis
** †Naticopsis carleyana – type locality for species
* Fossilized frond of the Carboniferous seed fern Neuropteris †Neuropteris
** †Neuropteris fimbriata
** †Neuropteris flexuosa
** †Neuropteris heterophylla
** †Neuropteris obliqua
** †Neuropteris ovata
** †Neuropteris rarinervis
** †Neuropteris scheuchzeri
** †Neuropteris tenuifolia
* †Odontopleura – tentative report
* †Oncoceras
* †Onychocrinus
* †Onychopterella
* †Oonoceras
* †Ornithoprion – type locality for genus
* Restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian cartilaginous fish Orodus †Orodus
* †Palmatolepis
* †Paolia – type locality for genus
* †Paraspirifer
* †Pecopteris
* †Pelagiella
* †Pentagonia
* †Pentameroceras
* †Pentamerus
* †Pentremites
** †Pentremites tulipaformis
* †Periastron
* †Periechocrinus
* Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Late Devonian trilobite Phacops †Phacops
* †Phillipsia
* †Phragmolites
* †Pinna
* †Pinnularia
* †Plaesiomys
* †Platyceras
** †Platyceras bucculentum
* †Platycrinites
* †Platystrophia
** †Platystrophia acutilirata
** †Platystrophia annieana
** †Platystrophia clarksvillensis
** †Platystrophia cypha
** †Platystrophia moritura
* †Plectodonta
* †Pleurodictyum
* †Pleurorthoceras
* †Poleumita
* †Polygnathus
* †Polysacos – type locality for genus
* Priscopedatus
* †Proetus
* †Protochonetes – tentative report
* †Protosalvinia
* †Psaronius
* †Pteria
* †Pterotheca
* Life restoration of the Silurian-Middle Devonian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Pterygotus †Pterygotus
* †Quasillites – tentative report
* †Retzia
* †Rhadinichthys
* †Rhynchonella
* †Richmondoceras – type locality for genus
* †Rineceras
* †Rota
* †Samaropsis
* †Sandalodus
* †Scytalocrinus
* †Sidetes
* Fossilized stump of the Carboniferous-Permian club moss relative Sigillaria †Sigillaria
** †Sigillaria brardii
** †Sigillaria scutellata
* †Skenidioides
* †Sowerbyella
* †Spathognathodus
* †Sphaerexochus
* †Sphaerocodium
* †Sphenophyllum
** †Sphenophyllum cuneifolium
** †Sphenophyllum emarginatum
** †Sphenophyllum myriophyllum
** †Sphenophyllum plurifoliatum
* †Sphenopteris
* †Spirifer
* Spirorbis
* †Spyroceras
* Life restorations of a male (foreground) and female (background) of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Stethacanthus †Stethacanthus
** †Stethacanthus altonensis
* †Stigmaria
* †Stigmatella
* †Strophomena
** †Strophomena concordensis
** †Strophomena erratica
** †Strophomena extenuata
** †Strophomena neglecta
** †Strophomena nutans
** †Strophomena planumbona
** †Strophomena sulcata
* †Syringopora
* †Taxocrinus
* †Tentaculites
* †Tetradium
* †Thalassinoides
* †Treptoceras
* †Tricrepicephalus
* †Trimerus
* †Zittelloceras
* †Zoophycos

## Mesozoic

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

## Cenozoic

* Acer
* Life restoration of the Miocene camel Aepycamelus, or the long-necked camel. Heinrich Harder (1920). †Aepycamelus – or unidentified comparable form
* Alces
** †Alces alces
* †Arctodus
** †Arctodus simus
* †Bensonomys
** †Bensonomys hershkovitzi – type locality for species
* †Bootherium
** †Bootherium bombifrons
* †Borophagus
* †Bryum
* Bufo
* Candona
** †Candona crogmaniana – or unidentified comparable form
** †Candona elliptica – or unidentified related form
* Canis
** Modern mounted skeleton of Canis lupus, the grey wolf, to scale with a fossilized skeleton of the Pleistocene wolf Canis dirus, or dire wolf †Canis dirus – or unidentified comparable form
** †Canis latrans – or unidentified comparable form
** †Canis lupus
* †Carex
* Carya
* Chara
* Chelydra
** †Chelydra serpentina – or unidentified comparable form
* Chrysemys
** †Chrysemys picta – or unidentified comparable form
* Coluber
** †Coluber constrictor
* Comptonia – or unidentified comparable form
* Cyperus
* Cypridopsis
** †Cypridopsis okeechobei – or unidentified related form
** †Cypridopsis vidua – or unidentified comparable form
* Elaphe
* Emydoidea
** †Emydoidea blandingii – or unidentified comparable form
* Equus
** †Equus complicatus – or unidentified comparable form
* Fagus
** †Fagus grandifolia – or unidentified comparable form
* Geomys
** †Geomys adamsi – or unidentified comparable form
** †Geomys bursarius – or unidentified comparable form
* †Hemiauchenia – or unidentified comparable form
* †Hesperotestudo
* †Hypolagus
** †Hypolagus fontinalis – or unidentified comparable form
* Lynx
** †Lynx rufus – or unidentified comparable form
* Lyonia – or unidentified comparable form
* †Mammut
** Restoration of a Mammut americanum, or American mastodon †Mammut americanum
* Marmota
** †Marmota monax
* Mephitis
** †Mephitis mephitis
* Microtus
** †Microtus ochrogaster – or unidentified comparable form
* Mustela
* †Mylohyus
** †Mylohyus fossilis
* Neotoma
** †Neotoma floridana – or unidentified comparable form
* Nerodia
** †Nerodia erythrogaster – or unidentified comparable form
* Odocoileus
** A living Odocoileus virginianus, or white-tailed deer †Odocoileus virginianus
* Ogmodontomys
** †Ogmodontomys pipecreekensis – type locality for species
* †Oxalis
* †Paleoheterodon
** †Paleoheterodon tiheni
* Panthera
** †Panthera onca
* †Paracoluber
** †Paracoluber storei
* Parascalops
** †Parascalops breweri
* Peromyscus
** †Peromyscus leucopus – or unidentified comparable form
* Platanus
** †Platanus occidentalis
* Restoration of a herd of alarmed Miocene-Pleistocene peccaries of the genus Platygonus. Charles R. Knight (1922). †Platygonus
** †Platygonus vetus – or unidentified comparable form
* †Plionarctos
** †Plionarctos edensis
* †Pliophenacomys
** †Pliophenacomys koenigswaldi – type locality for species
* Polygonum
* Populus
** †Populus deltoides – or unidentified comparable form
* †Potamocypris
** †Potamocypris unicaudata – or unidentified related form
* †Potamogeton
* †Potentilla
* †Rana
** †Rana catesbeiana – or unidentified comparable form
* Rumex
* Salix
* †Scirpus
* Life restoration of the Pleistocene-Holocene saber-tooth cat Smilodon †Smilodon
** †Smilodon fatalis
* Spermophilus
** †Spermophilus howelli
* Spilogale
** †Spilogale putorius – or unidentified comparable form
* †Symmetrodontomys
** †Symmetrodontomys daamsi – type locality for species
* Synaptomys
** †Synaptomys cooperi
* Restoration of the Miocene-Pliocene rhinoceros Teleoceras †Teleoceras
* Thamnophis
* Trachemys
** †Trachemys scripta – or unidentified comparable form
* Urocyon
** †Urocyon cinereoargenteus
* Ursus
** †Ursus americanus – or unidentified comparable form
* †Verbena
* †Viola
* Vitis
* Vulpes
* †Xanthium