# List of the Mesozoic life of Georgia (U.S. state)

This list of the Mesozoic life of Georgia contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Georgia and are between 252.17 and 66 million years of age.

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* †Aciculiscala
** †Aciculiscala acuta
* Acirsa
** †Acirsa americana – or unidentified related form
** †Acirsa flexicostata
* Acteon
** †Acteon cicatricosus
* †Acteonella
* †Acutostrea
** †Acutostrea plumosa
* †Aenona
** †Aenona eufaulensis
** †Aenona georgiana
* Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous oyster Agerostrea †Agerostrea
** †Agerostrea mesenterica
* †Albertosaurus
* †Aliofusus
* †Allonia – type locality for genus
** †Allonia decandra – type locality for species
* †Amaurellina
* Amauropsis
* †Ambigostrea
** †Ambigostrea tecticosta
* †Anatimya
** †Anatimya anteradiata
* †Anchura
** †Anchura noakensis – tentative report
* †Ancilla
** †Ancilla acutula
* †Androdecidua – type locality for genus
** †Androdecidua endressii – type locality for species
* †Anomaeodus
** †Anomaeodus phaseolus
* Interior and exterior of a shell of an Anomia, or jingle shell †Anomia
** †Anomia argentaria
** †Anomia ornata
** †Anomia preolmstedi
** †Anomia tellinoides
* †Anomoeodus
** †Anomoeodus phaseolus
* †Antiquacupula – type locality for genus
** †Antiquacupula sulcata – type locality for species
* †Aphrodina
** †Aphrodina tippana
* Interior of the shell of an Arca ark clam †Arca
* Arrhoges
* Astarte
** †Astarte culebrensis
* Ataphrus

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* Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Baculites †Baculites
* †Bathytormus
** †Bathytormus pteropsis
* †Bedellia – type locality for genus
** †Bedellia pusilla – type locality for species
* †Bellifusus
** †Bellifusus angulicostatus – or unidentified related form
** †Bellifusus curvicostatus
** †Bellifusus spinosus
* †Beretra
* †Boodlepteris – or unidentified comparable form
* †Borodinopristis
** †Borodinopristis ackermani – type locality for species
** †Borodinopristis schwimmeri – type locality for species
* †Borodinoptristis
** †Borodinoptristis schwimmeri
* Botula
** †Botula conchafodentis
** †Botula ripleyana
* Brachidontes
* †Brachyrhizodus
** †Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis
* †Buccinopsis
** †Buccinopsis crassicostata

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* Cadulus
** †Cadulus obnutus
* Caestocorbula
** †Caestocorbula crassaplica
** †Caestocorbula crassiplica
** †Caestocorbula percompressa
** †Caestocorbula suffalciata
** †Caestocorbula terramaria
* †Calliomphalus
** †Calliomphalus americanus
** †Calliomphalus nudus
* †Camptonectes
** †Camptonectes argillensis
** †Camptonectes bubonis
* †Campylopodium – type locality for genus
** †Campylopodium allonense – type locality for species
* Cardium [fr; nl; sv]
* †Caryanthus
* Caryocorbula
** †Caryocorbula veatchi
** †Caryocorbula veatci
* †Caveola
* Cerithiella
** †Cerithiella nodoliratum – or unidentified related form
* †Chedighaii
** †Chedighaii barberi
* A living Chiloscyllium longtail carpet shark Chiloscyllium
* Chiton
** †Chiton berryi
* Chlamys
** †Chlamys mississippensis
* †Clarkiella
** †Clarkiella hemispherica
* †Clavipholas
** †Clavipholas pectorosa
* Cliona
* †Clisocolus
** †Clisocolus concentricum
* †Columbusia – type locality for genus
** †Columbusia fragilis – type locality for species
* Shell of a Corbula basket clam Corbula
** †Corbula subradiata
** †Corbula torta
* Crassatella
** †Crassatella vadosa
* Crassostrea
** †Crassostrea cortex
** †Crassostrea cusseta
* †Crenella
** †Crenella elegantula
** †Crenella serica
* †Creonella
** †Creonella subangulata – or unidentified comparable form
** †Creonella triplicata
* †Cretodus
** †Cretodus borodini
** †Cretodus semiplicatus
* Fossil of the Early Cretaceous-Eocene shark Cretolamna †Cretolamna
** †Cretolamna appendiculata
* Cucullaea
** †Cucullaea capax
** †Cucullaea littlei
* †Cuna
** †Cuna texana
* Cuspidaria
** †Cuspidaria grandis
* †Cyclorisma
** †Cyclorisma parva
* Cylichna
** †Cylichna diversilirata
** †Cylichna incisa
* Cylichnella
* †Cymbophora
** †Cymbophora appressa
** †Cymbophora berryi
** †Cymbophora lintea
** †Cymbophora ochilleana
** †Cymbophora wordeni
* †Cyprimeria
** †Cyprimeria alta
** †Cyprimeria depressa

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* Restoration of the Late Cretaceous Alligator relative Deinosuchus †Deinosuchus
** †Deinosuchus rugosus
* Dentalium
** †Dentalium leve
* †Detrusandra – or unidentified comparable form
* †Deussenia
** †Deussenia bellalirata
* †Dolicholatirus
** †Dolicholatirus torquatus
* †Drilluta
** †Drilluta distans
** †Drilluta major – or unidentified comparable form

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* †Ellipsoscapha
* Restoration of the Early Cretaceous-Eocene bony fish Enchodus, or the "saber-toothed herring" †Enchodus
** †Enchodus petrosus
* †Eoacteon
** †Eoacteon linteus
* †Eopolytrichum – type locality for genus
** †Eopolytrichum antiquum – type locality for species
* †Erguitaia
** †Erguitaia benningensis – type locality for species
** †Erguitaia rugosa – type locality for species
* †Etea
* †Eulima
** †Eulima gracilistylis
** †Eulima monmouthensis
* †Euspira
** †Euspira rectilabrum
* Illustration in multiple views of a fossilized shell of the Late Jurassic-Miocene nautiloid cephalopod Eutrephoceras †Eutrephoceras
** †Eutrephoceras dekayi
* †Exogyra
** †Exogyra costata
** †Exogyra ponderosa
** †Exogyra upatoiensis

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* †Flemingostrea
** †Flemingostrea cretacea
** †Flemingostrea subspatula
* †Fulgerca
** †Fulgerca attenuata – or unidentified related form

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* Gemmula
* †Gervilliopsis
** †Gervilliopsis ensiformis
* A living Ginglymostoma nurse shark Ginglymostoma
** †Ginglymostoma globidens
* Glossus
* Glycymeris
** †Glycymeris hamula
** †Glycymeris rotundata
* †Goniocylichna
* †Graciliala
** †Graciliala decemlirata
* †Granocardium
** †Granocardium bowenae – or unidentified comparable form
** †Granocardium kuemmeli
** †Granocardium kummeli
** †Granocardium lowei
** †Granocardium tippananum
** †Granocardium tippanum
* †Graphidula
* †Gryphaeostrea
** †Gryphaeostrea vomer
* Gyrodes
** †Gyrodes spillmani
** †Gyrodes supraplicatus
* †Gyrostrea
** †Gyrostrea cortex

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* Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Halisaurus †Halisaurus
* †Hamulus
** †Hamulus huntensis – tentative report
** †Hamulus onyx
* †Harduinia
** †Harduinia micrococcus
** †Harduinia mortonis
* †Helicaulax
** †Helicaulax formosa
* †Hercorhynchus
* Heterodontus
* Restoration of two of the Permian-Late Cretaceous cartilaginous fish Hybodus †Hybodus

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* †Inoperna
* †Ischyrhiza
** †Ischyrhiza georgiensis – type locality for species
** †Ischyrhiza mira
* Fossilized shell of the Permian-modern marine bivalve Isognomon Isognomon

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* Juliacorbula
** †Juliacorbula monmouthensis

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* †Lacrimiforma
** †Lacrimiforma secunda
* †Latiala
** †Latiala lobata – or unidentified comparable form
* †Laxispira
** †Laxispira monilifera
* †Legumen
** †Legumen carolinensis – or unidentified comparable form
** †Legumen ellipticum
* Illustration of a living Lepisosteus, or gar Lepisosteus
* †Leptosolen
** †Leptosolen biplicata
* Lima
** †Lima pelagica
* Limatula
** †Limatula acutilineata
* Limopsis
** †Limopsis meeki
* †Linearis
** †Linearis magnoliensis
** †Linearis metastriata
** †Linearis pectinis
* †Linter
** †Linter acutata
* †Liopeplum
** †Liopeplum canalis
** †Liopeplum cretaceum
* †Liopistha
** †Liopistha protexta
* †Liothyris
** †Liothyris carolinensis
* Electron micrograph of fossilized teeth from the Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous freshwater shark Lissodus †Lissodus
** †Lissodus babulskii
* Lithophaga
* †Longitubus
* †Longoconcha
* Lopha
** †Lopha falcata
** †Lopha mesenterica
* †Lowenstamia
** †Lowenstamia cucullata
* †Lycettia
** †Lycettia tippana
** †Lycettia tippanus

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* Malletia
** †Malletia longfrons
** †Malletia longifrons
** †Malletia stephensoni
* †Mathilda
** †Mathilda cedarensis – or unidentified comparable form
** †Mathilda corona
** †Mathilda ripleyana – or unidentified related form
* †Mauldinia
* Fossilized skull of the Late Cretceous coelacanth fish Megalocoelacanthus †Megalocoelacanthus
** †Megalocoelacanthus dobiei
* †Micrabacia
** †Micrabacia marylandica
** †Micrabacia radiata
* †Micreschara – tentative report
* †Microdontaspis – type locality for genus
** †Microdontaspis tenuis – type locality for species
†Modiolus
** †Modiolus sedesclaris
** †Modiolus sedesclarus
* †Molaspora
** †Molaspora lobata
* †Morea
** †Morea marylandica
** †Morea transenna
* †Myobarbum
** †Myobarbum laevigatum
* Myrtea
** †Myrtea stephensoni

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* †Napulus
** †Napulus octoliratus
* †Nemodon
** †Nemodon eufalensis
** †Nemodon eufaulensis
** †Nemodon grandis – or unidentified comparable form
* Nerita
* †Noferinia – type locality for genus
** †Noferinia fusicarpa – type locality for species
* Nozeba
* Interior of a fossilized shell of the Early Ordovician-modern marine bivalve Nucula Nucula
** †Nucula camia
** †Nucula cuneifrons
** †Nucula percrassa
** †Nucula severnensis
* Nuculana
** †Nuculana rostratruncata
** †Nuculana whitfieldi
* †Nymphalucina
** †Nymphalucina linearia

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* †Odontobasis
* †Opertochasma
* Shell of an Ostrea, or oyster Ostrea

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* †Paladmete
** †Paladmete cancellaria
** †Paladmete gardnerae
** †Paladmete laevis
* Panopea
** †Panopea subplicata
* †Parafusus
* †Paralbula
** †Paralbula casei
* † Paranomia
** †Paranomia scabra
* †Parasaurauia – type locality for genus
** †Parasaurauia allonensis – type locality for species
* †Parmicorbula
** †Parmicorbula percompressa
** †Parmicorbula suffalciata
** †Parmicorbula terramaria
* †Periplomya
* †Perrisonota
** †Perrisonota protexta
* Phacoides
** †Phacoides mattiformis
* Pholadomya
* †Pinna
* Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Placenticeras †Placenticeras
** †Placenticeras benningi
* †Platecarpus
* †Pleuriocardia
** †Pleuriocardia eufalensis
* Polinices
** †Polinices kummeli
* †Postligata
** †Postligata wordeni
* †Praeleda
** †Praeleda compar
* Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Prognathodon preying upon an ammonoid cephalopod †Prognathodon
* †Promathildia
** †Promathildia parvula – or unidentified comparable form
* †Protarca
** †Protarca obliqua
* †Protocardia
** †Protocardia spillmani
* †Protofagacea – type locality for genus
** †Protofagacea allonensis – type locality for species
* †Protoplatyrhina
** †Protoplatyrhina renae
* †Pseudocorax
** †Pseudocorax affinis
** †Pseudocorax granti
* †Pseudohypolophus
** †Pseudohypolophus ellipsis – type locality for species
* †Pseudolimea
** †Pseudolimea reticulata
* Pseudomalaxis
** †Pseudomalaxis stantoni
* †Pseudoptera
** †Pseudoptera securiformis
* †Pteria
** †Pteria rhombica
* †Pteridophyte
** †Pteridophyte Type 1 – informal
** †Pteridophyte Type 2 – informal
* †Pterocerella
** †Pterocerella tippana
* †Pterotrigonia
** †Pterotrigonia angulicostata
** †Pterotrigonia cerulea
** †Pterotrigonia eufalensis
** †Pterotrigonia eufaulensis
* †Ptychodus
** †Ptychodus mortoni
* †Ptychosyca
** †Ptychosyca inornata
* †Ptychotrygon
** †Ptychotrygon chattahoocheensis – type locality for species
** †Ptychotrygon eutawensis – type locality for species
** †Ptychotrygon triangularis – or unidentified comparable form
** †Ptychotrygon vermiculata
* †Pugnellus
** †Pugnellus goldmani
* Pulvinites
** †Pulvinites argenteus
* Assemblage of fossilized shells of the Cretaceous-Pleistocene oyster Pycnodonte Pycnodonte
** †Pycnodonte vesicularis
* †Pyrifusus
* †Pyropsis

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* †Quadriplatanus – type locality for genus
** †Quadriplatanus georgianus – type locality for species

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* †Radiopecten
** †Radiopecten mississippiensis
* †Regnellidium
** †Regnellidium upatoiensis – type locality for species
* †Remera
** †Remera flexicostata
** †Remera juncea
* Restoration of the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene ray Rhombodus †Rhombodus
** †Rhombodus laevis
* Ringicula
** †Ringicula clarki
** †Ringicula culbertsoni
* Rissoa

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* †Scambula
** †Scambula perplana
* Restoration of several of the Early Cretaceous-Miocene shark Scapanorhynchus †Scapanorhynchus
** †Scapanorhynchus rhaphiodon
** †Scapanorhynchus texanus
* †Scobinidola
* Seila
** †Seila quadrilira – or unidentified related form
* Serpula
* †Solariorbis
** †Solariorbis clara
* †Solyma
** †Solyma elliptica
* †Sourimis
** †Sourimis georgiana – tentative report
* †Sphenodiscus
* Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous shark Squalicorax Squalicorax
** †Squalicorax falcatus
** †Squalicorax kaupi
** †Squalicorax yangaensis
* Squatina
** †Squatina hassei
* †Stantonella
** †Stantonella interrupta
* †Stephanodus
* Striarca
** †Striarca cuneata
** †Striarca richardsi
** †Striarca saffordi
* †Syncyclonema
** †Syncyclonema simplicius
* †Synodontaspis
** †Synodontaspis holmdelensis

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* Teinostoma
* Tellina
* †Tellinimera
** †Tellinimera buboana
** †Tellinimera gabbi
* †Tenea
** †Tenea parilis
* †Tenuipteria
** †Tenuipteria argentea
** †Tenuipteria argenteus
* Fossilized skull of the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene gavial relative Thoracosaurus †Thoracosaurus
** †Thoracosaurus neocesariensis
* †Thylacus
** †Thylacus cretaceus
* †Tornatellaea
* Trachycardium
** †Trachycardium eufaulensis
* †Trigonarca
* Trochocyathus
** †Trochocyathus woolmani
* †Troostella – tentative report
* Turboella
** †Turboella crebricostata
** †Turboella tallahatchiensis
* Fossilized shells of the Late Jurassic-modern tower snail Turritella Turritella
** †Turritella bilira
** †Turritella hilgardi
** †Turritella trilira
** †Turritella vertebroides

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* †Uddenia
* †Unicardium
** †Unicardium concentricum
* †Urceolabrum

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* †Veniella
** †Veniella conradi
** †Veniella mullinensis
* †Vetericardiella
** †Vetericardiella crenalirata
* †Volutomorpha
* Volvulella

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* Xenophora
* Life restoration of the Cretaceous bony fish Xiphactinus †Xiphactinus
** †Xiphactinus audax

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* †Zikkuratia
** †Zikkuratia tabanneensis