# List of the prehistoric life of Missouri

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

## Precambrian

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

## Paleozoic
### Selected Paleozoic taxa of Missouri

* †Achatella
* †Achistrum
* †Acutimitoceras – tentative report
* Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris †Alethopteris
** †Alethopteris davreuxi
** †Alethopteris decurrens
** †Alethopteris grandini
** †Alethopteris serlii
** †Alethopteris valida
* †Amphiscapha
* † Ananias
* †Annularia
** †Annularia sphenophylloides
** †Annularia stellata
* †Anomphalus
* †Anthracoceras
* Restoration of the Late Ordovician nautiloid cephalopod Aphetoceras being preyed upon by a Cameroceras †Aphetoceras
* †Aphlebia
* †Archeognathus – type locality for genus
* †Artisia
* †Asterotheca
* †Athyris
** †Athyris fultonensis
** †Athyris lamellosa
* †Aulochiton – type locality for genus
* †Aviculopecten
** †Aviculopecten gradicosta
* †Avonia
* †Bellerophon
** †Bellerophon graphicus
** †Bellerophon jeffersonensis – type locality for species
* †Bembexia
* †Beyrichoceras
* †Bisatoceras
* †Bolbocephalus
* †Bumastus
** †Bumastus trentonensis
* Fossilized stems from the Carboniferous-Permian horsetail relative Calamites †Calamites
** †Calamites carinatus
** †Calamites cistii
** †Calamites cruciatus
** †Calamites suckowii
* †Calyptaulax
* †Camarotoechia
** †Camarotoechia elegantula
** †Camarotoechia horsfordi
** †Camarotoechia tuta
* †Campbelloceras
* †Cardiocarpus
* †Cavusgnathus
* Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician trilobite Ceraurus †Ceraurus
* †Chelodes
* †Chonetes
** †Chonetes geniculatus
** †Chonetes mesoloba
** †Chonetes ornatus
* †Clarkoceras
* †Cleiothyridina
** †Cleiothyridina incrassata
** †Cleiothyridina orbicularis
* †Cliftonia
* †Coenocystis
* Fossilized shell of the Late Devonian-Permian brachiopod Composita †Composita
** †Composita elongata
** †Composita ovata
** †Composita subtilita
** †Composita tetralobata
* †Conocardium
* †Coolinia
* †Cordaicarpus
* †Cordaites
** †Cordaites crassinervis
** †Cordaites principalis
* †Cornuella – type locality for genus
* †Cornulites
* †Crania
* †Crepipora
** †Crepipora globulifera – type locality for species
* †Curtognathus
* †Cyclonema
* †Cyclopteris
* †Cyphaspis
* †Cyrtoceras
* †Cyrtolites
* †Dalmanites
* †Deckera
* † Della
* †Dicoelosia
* Illustration of the jaws of Dinichthys †Dinichthys
* †Domatoceras
* †Dorycordaites
* †Earlandia
* †Echinosphaerites
* †Edmondia
* †Ellesmeroceras
* Eocaudina
* †Eospirifer
* †Euomphalus
* Life restoration of the Permian Chimaera relative Fadenia †Fadenia
* †Favosites
* †Flexicalymene
** †Flexicalymene senaria
* †Gervillia
* †Glossina
* †Gnathodus
** †Gnathodus typicus
* †Gondolella
* †Halysites
* †Helcionopsis
* †Hemithecella – type locality for genus
* †Hindia
* †Holia – type locality for genus
* †Holopea
* †Hyolithes
* †Hypseloconus
* †Idiognathodus
* †Irvingella
* Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. †Isotelus
** †Isotelus gigas
** †Isotelus maximus
* †Jeffersonia
* †Kendallina
* †Kirengella
* †Kirkella – type locality for genus
* †Lepidophyllum
* †Lingula
* †Liroceras
* †Matthevia
* †Maximites
* †Meristella
* †Meristina
* †Metacoceras
* †Murchisonia – tentative report
* Fossilized shell of the Early Devonian – Triassic sea snail Naticopsis †Naticopsis
** †Naticopsis judithae – type locality for species
** †Naticopsis marthaae – type locality for species
** †Naticopsis scintilla – type locality for species
** †Naticopsis wortheniana – type locality for species
* †Neospirifer
** †Neospirifer cameratus
** †Neospirifer goreii
** †Neospirifer latus
** †Neospirifer triplicatus
* †Neuropteris
** †Neuropteris caudata
** †Neuropteris flexuosa
** †Neuropteris heterophylla
** †Neuropteris ovata
** †Neuropteris rarinervis
** †Neuropteris scheuchzeri
** †Neuropteris tenuifolia
* Nucula
* †Oncagnostus
** †Oncagnostus tumidosus
* Restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian cartilaginous fish Orodus †Orodus
* †Orthoceras
* †Orygmaspis
* †Oulodus
* †Ozarkodina
* †Palaeoniscus
* †Paradycheia – type locality for genus
* †Pecopteris
** †Pecopteris unita
* †Phillipsia – tentative report
* †Phragmolites
* †Pinnularia
* †Platyceras
* †Pleurocystites
* †Plicochonetes
* †Polygnathus
** †Polygnathus communis
* †Prioniodus
* †Proetus
* †Pseudopolygnathus
* †Pteridosperm
* †Pterotheca
* Life restoration of the Late Devonian placoderm fish Ptyctodus †Ptyctodus
* †Quadratia
* †Receptaculites
* †Remopleurides
* †Robustum – type locality for genus
** †Robustum nodum – type locality for species
* †Rota
* †Shelbyoceras – type locality for genus
* †Sigillaria
* †Skenidioides
* Solemya
* †Spathognathodus
* †Sphaerocoryphe
* †Sphenophyllum
** †Sphenophyllum emarginatum
** †Sphenophyllum longifolium
** †Sphenophyllum majus
* †Sphenopteris
* Fossilized shell of the Late Ordovician-Late Triassic brachiopod Spirifer †Spirifer
** †Spirifer marionensis
** †Spirifer opimus
** †Spirifer rockymontanus
* Spirorbis
* †Spyroceras
* †Strepsodiscus
* †Streptognathodus
** †Streptognathodus clarki – type locality for species
* †Strophomena
** †Strophomena incurvata
* †Subulites
* †Tarphyceras
* Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Tricrepicephalus †Tricrepicephalus
* †Tryblidium
* †Vellamo
* †Whiteavesia
* †Wilkingia
* †Worthenia

## Mesozoic

* †Acteon
* Fossilized shell of the Early Cretaceous-Oligocene turtle Adocus †Adocus
* †Aenona
** †Aenona eufaulensis
* †Albertosaurus
* †Ambigostrea
** †Ambigostrea tecticosta
* Amuletum
* †Anatimya
** †Anatimya anteradiata
* †Anchura
* †Anomia
** †Anomia ornata
* †Aphrodina
** †Aphrodina tippana
* Arrhoges
* Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Baculites †Baculites
** †Baculites tippahensis
* †Bellifusus
* †Belliscala
* †Bullopsis
** †Bullopsis cretacea
* Caestocorbula
** †Caestocorbula crassaplica
** †Caestocorbula crassiplica
** †Caestocorbula percompressa
* †Camptonectes
** †Camptonectes bubonis
** †Camptonectes hilgardi
* †Caveola
* Cerithiella
** †Cerithiella semirugatum
* †Clavipholas
** †Clavipholas pectorosa
* Cliona
* †Clisocolus
* Shell of a Corbula basket clam Corbula
* Crassatella
** †Crassatella vadosa
* †Crenella
** †Crenella elegantula
** †Crenella serica
* Cucullaea
** †Cucullaea capax
* †Cymbophora
** †Cymbophora appressa
** †Cymbophora berryi
* †Cymella
** †Cymella bella
* †Cyprimeria
** †Cyprimeria alta
* Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Discoscaphites †Discoscaphites
** †Discoscaphites iris
* †Drilluta
* †Eoacteon
** †Eoacteon linteus
* †Eoharpa
** †Eoharpa sinuosa
* †Eubaculites
** †Eubaculites carinatus
* †Eufistulana
** †Eufistulana ripleyana
* †Eufistulina
* †Euspira
** †Euspira rectilabrum
* Interior of a fossilized shell of the Jurassic-Cretaceous foam oyster Exogyra †Exogyra
** †Exogyra costata
* †Fulgerca
* Fusinus
** †Fusinus macnairyensis – or unidentified related form
* Glycymeris
** †Glycymeris compressa
** †Glycymeris rotundata
* †Goniochasma – tentative report
* †Granocardium
** †Granocardium lowei
** †Granocardium tippananum
** †Granocardium tippanum
* †Gryphaeostrea
** †Gryphaeostrea vomer
* Gyrodes
** †Gyrodes spillmani
** †Gyrodes supraplicatus
* †Hamulus
** †Hamulus onyx
** †Hamulus squamosus
* †Helicaulax
** †Helicaulax formosa
* Juliacorbula
** †Juliacorbula monmouthensis
* †Legumen
** †Legumen ellipticum
* †Leptosolen
** †Leptosolen biplicata
* Lima
** †Lima pelagica
* Limatula
** †Limatula acutilineata
* †Linearis
** †Linearis metastriata
* †Liopeplum
** †Liopeplum rugosum
* †Liopistha
** †Liopistha protexta
* †Liothyris
* †Lowenstamia
* †Lycettia
** †Lycettia tippana
** †Lycettia tippanus
* Malletia
** †Malletia longfrons
** †Malletia longifrons
* †Micrabacia
* †Morea
** †Morea transenna
* Life restoration of two of the Late Cretaceous Mosasaurus †Mosasaurus
** †Mosasaurus hoffmanni
* †Naomichelys
* †Napulus
** †Napulus octoliratus
* †Nemocardium
** †Nemocardium fragile
* †Nemodon
** †Nemodon eufalensis
** †Nemodon eufaulensis
* Nucula
** †Nucula camia
** †Nucula percrassa
* Nuculana
** †Nuculana whitfieldi
* †Opertochasma
* †Paladmete
** †Paladmete cancellaria
* Panopea
** †Panopea monmouthensis
* †Parmicorbula
** †Parmicorbula percompressa
* †Parrosaurus – type locality for genus
** †Parrosaurus missouriensis
* Fossilized shell of the Early Triassic-Pliocene marine bivalve Pholadomya Pholadomya
** †Pholadomya occidentalis
* †Pinna
** †Pinna laqueata
* †Pleuriocardia
* †Praeleda
** †Praeleda compar
* †Protocardia
** †Protocardia spillmani
* Pseudomalaxis
** †Pseudomalaxis pateriformis
* †Pterotrigonia
** †Pterotrigonia angulicostata
** †Pterotrigonia eufalensis
** †Pterotrigonia eufaulensis
* †Pyropsis
* †Scambula
** †Scambula perplana
* Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Scaphites †Scaphites
* Serpula
* Striarca
** †Striarca cuneata
** †Striarca saffordi
* †Syncyclonema
** †Syncyclonema simplicius
* Tellina
* †Tellinimera
** †Tellinimera buboana
* †Tenea
** †Tenea parilis
* †Tenuipteria
** †Tenuipteria argentea
** †Tenuipteria argenteus
* Trachycardium
* †Trobus
** †Trobus buboanus
* Fossilized shells of the Late Jurassic-modern tower snail Turritella Turritella
** †Turritella bilira
** †Turritella chalybeatensis
** †Turritella tippana
** †Turritella vertebroides
* †Unicardium
* †Urceolabrum
** †Urceolabrum tuberculatum
* †Veniella
** †Veniella conradi
* †Volutomorpha
* †Weeksia

## Cenozoic

* Alligator
* †Arctodus
** †Arctodus simus
* Bison
* †Bootherium
* Bufo
** †Bufo woodhousei
* Life restoration of the Pliocene-Holocene camel Camelops †Camelops
* Canis
** †Canis dirus
** †Canis latrans
* Cnemidophorus
** †Cnemidophorus sexlineatus
* Crotalus
** †Crotalus horridus
* Dasypus
** †Dasypus bellus
* Elaphe
** †Elaphe vulpina
* Equus
** †Equus complicatus
* Geomys
* Lepus
** †Lepus americanus
* †Mammut
** Restoration of a Mammut americanum, or American mastodon †Mammut americanum
* †Mammuthus
* Marmota
* †Megalonyx
** †Megalonyx jeffersonii – or unidentified comparable form
* Microtus
** †Microtus ochrogaster – or unidentified comparable form
** †Microtus pennsylvanicus
* †Mylohyus
* Neotoma
** †Neotoma floridana
* Nerodia
** †Nerodia sipedon
* Ochrotomys
** †Ochrotomys nuttalli – or unidentified comparable form
* Odocoileus
** †Odocoileus virginianus
* Panthera
** A living Panthera onca, or jaguar †Panthera onca
* †Platygonus
** †Platygonus compressus
* Procyon
** †Procyon lotor
* Puma
** †Puma concolor – or unidentified comparable form
* †Rana
** †Rana pipiens
* Sceloporus
** †Sceloporus undulatus
* Sciurus
* Life restoration of the Pleistocene-Holocene saber-tooth cat Smilodon †Smilodon
* Spermophilus
* Spilogale
** †Spilogale putorius – or unidentified comparable form
* Sylvilagus
** †Sylvilagus aquaticus
* Synaptomys
** †Synaptomys cooperi
* †Tanupolama
** †Tanupolama parvus – type locality for species
* A living Tapirus, or tapir Tapirus
* Urocyon