page_title: List of the prehistoric life of Illinois
section_title: Cenozoic
hierarchical_section_title: List of the prehistoric life of Illinois / Cenozoic
caption_attribution_description: English: Crop of file in filename
context_page_description: This list of the prehistoric life of Illinois contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Illinois.
context_section_description: Agabus
  †Agabus praelugens – type locality for species
  †Agabus savagei – type locality for species
  †Anomodon – type locality for genus
  †Anomodon snyderi – type locality for species
  †Araloselachus
  †Araloselachus cuspidata
  Arvicola
  †Bananogmius
  †Bananogmius crieleyi – or unidentified comparable form
  Bison
   †Bison antiquus
  †Bison bison
  Blarina
  †Bootherium
  †Bootherium bombifrons
  Carabus
  †Carabus maeander
  Castor
  †Castor canadensis
  †Castoroides
  †Castoroides ohioensis
  †Cervalces
  †Cervalces latifrons – tentative report
   †Cervalces scotti
  Chelonia
  Chlaenius
  †Chlaenius plicatipennis – type locality for species
  Conopeum
  †Conopeum damicornis
  Donacia
  †Donacia stirioides – type locality for species
  Equus
  Esox
  †Euceratherium
  †Euceratherium collinum
  Geomys
  †Geomys bursarius
  †Ischyodus
  †Ischyodus williamsae
  Lasiopodomys
  †Lasiopodomys deceitensis
  †Mammut
  †Mammut americanum
  †Mammuthus
   †Mammuthus primigenius
  Marmota
  †Marmota monax
  †Megalonyx
  †Megalonyx jeffersonii
  Mesalia
  †Mesalia alabamiensis
  Microtus
  †Microtus paroperarius
  Natica
  †Natica reversa
  Olophrum
  †Olophrum henryi – type locality for species
  Ostrea
  †Ostrea pulaskensis
  †Pachyrhizodus
  †Pachyrhizodus caninus
  Patrobus
  †Patrobus henshawi – type locality for species
  Peromyscus
  Pitar – tentative report
  †Pitar ripleyanus
  Pituophis
   †Platygonus – type locality for genus
  †Platygonus compressus – type locality for species
  †Platygonus cumberlandensis – tentative report
  Platynus
  †Platynus calvini – type locality for species
  †Platynus pleistocenicus – type locality for species
  †Platynus subgelidus – type locality for species
  Procyon
  †Procyon lotor – type locality for species
  †Propenser
  †Propenser hewletti
  †Ptychodus
  Rangifer
   †Rangifer tarandus
  †Sangamona
  †Sangamona fugitiva
  Sorex
  †Strepsidura
  †Strepsidura contorea
  Sylvilagus
  †Sylvilagus floridanus
  Ursus
  †Ursus americanus
  Venericardia
  †Venericardia smithii
caption: Restoration of a herd of alarmed Miocene-Pleistocene peccaries of the genus Platygonus. Charles R. Knight (1922).
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