page_title: List of the Mesozoic life of Montana
section_title: L
hierarchical_section_title: List of the Mesozoic life of Montana / L
caption_attribution_description: English: fossil of lepidotes
context_page_description: This list of the Mesozoic life of Montana contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Montana and are between 252.17 and 66 million years of age.
context_section_description: †Labrodioctes – type locality for genus
  †Labrodioctes montanensis – type locality for species
  †Laevigatosporites
  †Laevigatosporites haardtii
   †Lepidotes
  †Lepidotes haydeni – type locality for species
  †Lepidotes occidentalis – type locality for species
  †Lepismatina – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
  †Lepismatina mansfieldi
  Lepisosteus
  †Lepisosteus occidentalis
  †Leptalestes
  †Leptalestes cooki
  †Leptalestes krejcii
  †Leptalestes prokrejcii
  †Leptalestes toevsi – type locality for species
   †Leptoceratops
  †Leptoceratops gracilis
  †Leptochamops
  †Leptochamops denticulatus
  †Leptochondria
  †Leptochondria occidanea
  †Leptopecopites
  †Leptopecopites pocockii
  †Leptorhynchos – tentative report
  †Lesterwardia – type locality for genus
  †Lesterwardia palustris – type locality for species
  †Liliacidites
  †Lingula
  †Lingularia
  †Lingularia borealis
  †Lioplacodes
  †Lioplacodes judithensis
  †Lioplacodes williamsi
  †Liostrea
  †Liostrea strigilecula
  †Lisserpeton – type locality for genus
  †Lisserpeton atlantes
  †Lisserpeton bairdi – type locality for species
  †Lonchidion
  †Lonchidion selachos
   Lopha
  †Lucina
  Lunatia
  †Lunatia dakotensis – or unidentified comparable form
  †Lygobius – type locality for genus
  †Lygobius knowltoni – type locality for species
caption: Fossilized skeleton of the Early Jurassic-Late Cretaceous bony fish Lepidotes
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