page_title: List of the Paleozoic life of Minnesota
section_title: C
hierarchical_section_title: List of the Paleozoic life of Minnesota / C
caption_attribution_description: English: Constellaria polystomella from the Liberty Formation, Caesar Creek Lake, Ohio.
context_page_description: This list of the Paleozoic life of Minnesota contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Minnesota and are between 541 and 252.17 million years of age.
context_section_description: †Calceocrinus
  †Calceocrinus gossmani
  †Calceocrinus levorsoni
   †Calymene
  †Calymene mamillate
  †Calymene winchelli
  †Camaraspis
  †Camaraspis convexus
  †Camaraspoides
  †Camaraspoides berkeyi
  †Camellaspongia – type locality for genus
  †Camellaspongia tumula – type locality for species
   †Cameroceras
  †Cameroceras alternatum – or unidentified comparable form
  †Cameroceras hennepini
  †Cameroceras inopinatum – type locality for species
  †Cameroceras stillwaterense – type locality for species
  †Campylorthis
  †Campylorthis deflecta
  †Carabocrinus
  †Carabocrinus dicyclicus
  †Carabocrinus magnificus
  †Carabocrinus oogyi
  †Carabocrinus radiatus
  †Carabocrinus slocomi
  †Carinaropsis
  †Carinaropsis cymbula
  †Carinaropsis minima
  †Cataschisma
  †Cataschisma convexum
  †Centrocyrtoceras
  †Centrocyrtoceras annulatum
  †Centrocyrtoceras duplicostatum
  †Centrocyrtoceras rotundum
  †Ceratopea
  †Ceratopea canadensis
  †Ceratopea parvum – type locality for species
  †Ceratopea pygmaea – type locality for species
  †Ceratopsis
  †Ceratopsis chambersi
  †Ceratopsis humilinoda
  †Ceratopsis quadrifida
  †Ceraurinella
  †Ceraurinella scofieldi
  †Ceraurinella templetoni
  †Ceraurinus
  †Ceraurinus icarus
   †Ceraurus
  †Ceraurus pleurexanthemus
  †Ceraurus pleurexanthomus
  †Charactoceras
  †Charactoceras laddi
  †Chariocephalus
  †Chariocephalus whitfieldi
  †Chasmatopora
  †Chasmatopora reticulata
  †Cheilocephalus
  †Cheilocephalus stcroixensis
  †Cheirocrinus
  †Chidleyenoceras
  †Chirognathus
  †Chirognathus duodactylus
  †Cincinnaticrinus
  †Cincinnaticrinus varibrachialus
   †Cincinnetina
  †Cincinnetina minnesotensis – type locality for species
  †Clathrospira
  †Clathrospira conica
  †Clathrospira subconica
  †Cleiocrinus
  †Cleionychia
  †Coelocerodontus
  †Coelocerodontus trigonius
  †Colpodon
  †Colpomya
   †Constellaria
  †Constellaria varia
  †Conularia
  †Cordylodus
  †Cordylodus delicatus
  †Cornites
  †Coronocystis
  †Coronocystis durandensis
  †Cotteroceras
  †Cotteroceras compressum
  †Cotylahindia – type locality for genus
  †Cotylahindia panaca – type locality for species
  †Crania
  †Crania reversa
  †Craniops
  †Craniops minor
  †Cremacrinus
  †Cremacrinus arctus
  †Cremacrinus crossmani
  †Cremacrinus gerki
  †Cremacrinus guttenbergensis
  †Cremacrinus punctatus
  †Cryptophyllus
  †Cryptophyllus obloides
  †Cryptophyllus oboloides
  †Cryptophyllus sulcatus
  †Crytoniodus
  †Crytoniodus complicatus
  †Ctenobolbina
  †Ctenobolbina emaciata
  †Ctenobolbina maquoketensis
  †Ctenodonta
  †Ctenodonta novicea
  †Ctenodonta oviformis – type locality for species
  †Ctenodonta similis
  †Ctenodonta subnasuta – type locality for species
  †Culumbodina
  †Culumbodina penna
  †Cuneamya
  †Cupulocrinus
  †Cupulocrinus canaliculatus
  †Cupulocrinus conjugans
  †Cupulocrinus graciis – or unidentified related form
  †Cupulocrinus gracilis
  †Cupulocrinus humilis
  †Cupulocrinus jewetti
  †Cupulocrinus latibrachiatus – or unidentified related form
  †Cupulocrinus levorsoni
  †Cupulocrinus molanderi
  †Cupulocrinus plattevillensis
  †Curtognathus
  †Cyclendoceras
  †Cyclendoceras annulatum – or unidentified comparable form
  †Cyclocystoides
  †Cyclocystoides halli
  †Cyclonema
  †Cyclonema aiens
  †Cyclonema percarinata
  †Cyclonema textilis
  †Cyclonema varicosum
  †Cyclospira
  †Cyclospira bisulcata
  †Cymatonota
  †Cyptendoceras
  †Cyptendoceras ruedemanni
  †Cyrtocerina
  †Cyrtocerina crenulata
  †Cyrtocerina schoolcrafti
  †Cyrtodonta
  †Cyrtodonta descriptus
  †Cyrtodonta dignus
  †Cyrtodonta grandis
  †Cyrtodontula
  †Cyrtodontula praecipita – type locality for species
  †Cyrtoizoceras
  †Cyrtoizoceras minneapolis
  †Cyrtolites
  †Cyrtolites dilatus
  †Cyrtolites disjunctus
  †Cyrtolites minor
  †Cyrtolites ornatus
  †Cyrtolites retrorsus
  †Cyrtonellopsis
  †Cyrtonellopsis vetulum
  †Cyrtospira
  †Cyrtospira wykoffensis
  †Cyrtostropha
  †Cyrtostropha salteri –
caption: Fossil of the Ordovician bryozoan Constellaria
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