List of the prehistoric life of Pennsylvania
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This list of the prehistoric life of Pennsylvania contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Pennsylvania.
Precambrian edit
The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Pennsylvania.
Paleozoic edit
Selected Paleozoic taxa of Pennsylvania edit
- †Acidaspis
- †Agnostus
- †Alethopteris
- †Amphiscapha
Restorative model of the Cambrian arthropod Anomalocaris - †Aphthoroblattina
- †Archaeopteris
- †Archimylacris
- †Asaphiscus
- †Athyris
- †Atrypa
- †Aviculopecten
- †Barinophyton
- †Bathyuriscus
- †Bellerophon
- †Bembexia
- †Beyrichoceratoides
- †Blattoidea
- †Bonneterrina
Life restoration of the Late Devonian placoderm fish Bothriolepis - †Byronia
- †Callixylon
- †Camarotoechia
- †Camptostroma
- †Cavusgnathus
- †Ceramopora
- †Ceratopsis
- †Chancelloria
- †Chancia
- †Chonetes
- †Cincinnetina
- †Cleiothyridina
- †Climacograptus
Coccosteus cuspidatus restoration, shown attacking multiple Palaeospondylus' - †Coelacanthus
- †Composita
- †Conotheca
- †Coosella
- †Coosia
- †Cordaites
- †Cornulites
- †Craniops
- †Crepicephalus
- †Ctenerpeton – type locality for genus
- †Ctenopterus
- †Cyclonema
Fossilized foliage from the Carboniferous seed fern Cyclopteris - †Cypricardinia
- †Cyrtospirifer
- †Dawsonia
- †Deckera
- †Densignathus – type locality for genus
- †Diplocaulus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Diploceraspis
- †Diplograptus
Life restoration of the Permian synapsid (mammal precursor) Edaphosaurus - †Edmondia
- †Eldredgeops
- †Elita
- †Elrathia
- †Elrathina
- †Endolobus
- †Eoagnostus
- †Erettopterus
- †Eryops
- †Esmeraldina
- †Euomphalus
Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites - †Fenestella
- †Ganorhynchus
- †Genevievella
- †Glaukerpeton – type locality for genus
- †Glyptocrinus
- †Gnathodus
- †Gravicalymene
- †Greenops
- †Hallipterus
- †Hardieopterus
- †Hazelia
- †Helcionella
- †Hexactinellid
- †Hindeodus
- †Holonema
- †Holopea
- †Holoptychius
- †Holoptychus
- †Hughmilleria
- †Hymenocaris
Life restoration of the Late Devonian four-limbed animal precursor Hynerpeton - †Hynerpeton bassetti – type locality for species
- †Hyolithellus
- †Hyolithes
- †Hyolithid
- †Indiana – tentative report
- †Iocrinus
- †Irvingella
- †Isodectes
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. - †Kiaeropterus
- †Kingstonia
- †Kladognathus
- †Kootenia
- †Kutorgina
- †Lancastria
- †Lepidostrobus
- †Leptomitus
- Lingula
- †Lingulella
- †Llanoaspidella – type locality for genus
- †Llanoaspis – tentative report
- †Lonchocephalus
Life restoration of the Permian snake-like amphibian Lysorophus showing speculative egg-coiling behavior - †Margaretia
- †Martinia
- †Megalograptus – tentative report
- †Megamolgophis
- †Metacoceras
- †Michelinoceras
- †Micromitra
- †Mimagoniatites – tentative report
- †Mucrospirifer
- †Nanahughmilleria
- †Naticopsis
Fossilized shell of the Carboniferous-Permian brachiopod Neospirifer - †Neuropteris
- †Nisusia
- Nucula
- †Ogygopsis
- †Olenellus
- †Olenoides
- †Orthacanthus
- †Orthoceras
- †Orthotheca
- †Oryctocephalus
Restoration - †Oulodus
- †Ozarkodina
- †Paedeumias
- †Pagetia
- †Paladin
- †Panenka
- †Parahughmilleria
- †Paraspirifer
- †Paterina
- †Pelagiella
- †Pemphigaspis
- †Pentremites
- †Peronopsis
- †Petalodus
Fossil of the Devonian trilobite Phacops rana - Pinna
- †Platyceras
- †Pleurodictyum
- †Proetus
- †Protobarinophyton
- †Protocaris
- †Protospongia – tentative report
- †Pugnax
- †Quasillites
- †Rhinocarcinosoma
- †Rhodea
- †Ribeiria
- †Ruedemannipterus
- †Salterella
Fossilized fin of the Devonian lobe-finned fish Sauripterus - †Schaefferia (Paleozoic plant) – or unidentified comparable form
- †Schizodiscus
- †Sciadophyton
- †Selkirkia
- †Sidneyia
- †Sigillaria
- †Solenochilus
- †Sowerbyella
- †Spathognathodus
- †Spirifer
- †Spyroceras
- †Strophomena
- †Taeniocrada
- †Tentaculites
Diagram of the branches of the Middle-Late Devonian vascular plant Tetraxylopteris - †Titusvillia – type locality for genus
- †Triarthrus
- †Tricrepicephalus
- †Trimerus
- †Tubulella
- †Tuzoia
- †Urasterella
- †Vinella
- †Wanneria
- †Wilkingia
- †Worthenia
- †Yochelcionella
Mesozoic edit
- †Anchisauripus
- †Anchisauripus gwyneddensis – type locality for species
- †Anchisauripus poolei – type locality for species
- †Anchisauripus sillimani
Fossil (right) of the Early Jurassic dinosaur footprint ichnogenus Anomoepus - †Apatopus
- †Atreipus
- †Batrachopus
- †Belodon
- †Brachychirotherium
- †Brontozoum
- †Calamops – type locality for genus
- †Calamops paludosus – type locality for species
- †Chirotherium
- †Clepsysaurus – type locality for genus
- †Clepsysaurus pennsylvanicus – type locality for species
- †Clepsysaurus veatleianus
- †Dinophyton
- †Diplurus
Life restoration of the Middle Devonian lungfish Dipterus - †Eubrontes
- †Grallator
- †Gwyneddichnium – type locality for genus
- †Gwyneddichnium majore – type locality for species
- †Gwyneddosaurus – type locality for genus
- †Gwyneddosaurus erici – type locality for species
- †Koskinonodon
Fossilized skeleton of the Middle Triassic amphibian Mastodonsaurus - †Mastodonsaurus durus – type locality for species
- †Orthodactylus
- †Orthodactylus howelli – type locality for species
- †Otozoum – tentative report
- †Pagiophyllum
- †Palaeoctonus
- †Palaeosaurus
- †Palaeosaurus fraserianus – type locality for species
- †Platypterna
- †Platypterna lockatong – type locality for species
- †Pterodactylus
- †Pterodactylus longispinis – type locality for species
- †Revueltosaurus
- †Rhynchosauroides
Life restoration of the Late Triassic phytosaur Rutiodon - †Scoyenia
- †Sphodrosaurus – type locality for genus
- †Sphodrosaurus pennsylvanicus – type locality for species
- †Suchoprion
- †Synorichthys
- †Turseodus
Cenozoic edit
- Acidota
Illustration of an Aegialia dung beetle - Agonum
- Amara
- Apalone
- †Apalone mutica – tentative report
- Aphodius
- †Aphodius precursor – type locality for species
- Apion
Restoration of an Arctodus, or short-faced bear, with a human to scale - †Arctodus pristinus – type locality for species
- Arpedium
- †Ateuchus – tentative report
- Bembidion
- †Bembidion anguliferum group informal
- †Bembidion fortestriatum
- †Bembidion frontale
- †Bembidion incertum group informal
- †Bembidion morulum
- †Bembidion mutatum
- †Bembidion pseudocautum
- †Bembidion versicolor – or unidentified comparable form
- Blarina
A living Blarina brevicauda, or northern short-tailed shrew - †Blarina carolinensis
- Bledius
- Blethisa
- Boreaphilus
- †Brachyprotoma
- †Brachyprotoma obtusata – type locality for species
- Bufo
- Canis
- †Canis armbrusteri
Modern mounted skeleton of Canis lupus, the grey wolf, to scale with a fossilized skeleton of the Pleistocene wolf Canis dirus, or dire wolf
- Carabus
- †Cariacus
- †Cariacus laevicornis – type locality for species
- Carphoborus
- Castor
- †Castoroides
- Catops
- †Cervalces
- Chlaenius
- †Chlaenius punctulatus – type locality for species
- Colinus
- Coluber
- †Coluber acuminatus – type locality for species
- †Coluber constrictor
- Colymbetes
A living Crocuta crocuta, or spotted hyena - †Crocuta inexpectatus – type locality for species
- Crotalus
- Curimopsis
- †Curimopsis moosilauke – or unidentified comparable form
- †Cychrus
- †Cychrus minor – type locality for species
- †Cychrus wheatleyi – type locality for species
- Cymindis
- †Cymindis aurora – type locality for species
- †Cymindis cribricollis
- Cytilus
A preserved Diacheila ground beetle - Dicaelus
- †Dicaelus alutaceus – type locality for species
- Donacia
- Dyschirius
- †Dyschirius integer group informal
- †Dyschirius melancholicus
- Elaphe
- Elaphrus
- Emydoidea
A living Emys blandingii, or Blanding's turtle
- Enochrus
- Equus
- Erethizon
- Eucnecosum
- Glyptemys
- Gulo
- Gymnusa
- Harpalus
- Helophorus
- †Hesperotestudo
- †Hesperotestudo percrassa – type locality for species
- Heterodon
- Holoboreaphilus
- Homo
- Hydraena
- Hydroporus
- Hyla
A living Pseudacris crucifer (formerly Hyla crucifer), or spring peeper
- Lampropeltis
- Lasiopodomys – tentative report
- Lesteva
- Lontra
- Loricera
- Lynx
- †Lynx calcaratus – type locality for species
- †Mammut
- †Mammuthus
Life restorations of a Mammut americanum, or American mastodon (right), and a Mammuthus primigenius, or wooly mammoth (left)
- Mantura
- Marmota
- †Marmota monax – or unidentified comparable form
- †Megalonyx
- Meleagris
- Mephitis
- Microedus
- Microtus
- †Microtus guildayi – or unidentified comparable form
Restoration of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Miracinonyx, or American cheetah - †Miracinonyx inexpectatus – or unidentified comparable form
- Mustela
- Mycetoporus
- †Mylohyus
- Myotis
- Napaeozapus
- Natrix
A living Neofiber, or round-tailed muskrat - †Neofiber diluvianus – type locality for species
- Nerodia
- Nitidotachinus
- Notaris
- Notiophilus
- Ochthebius
- Odocoileus
A living Odocoileus virginianus, or white-tailed deer
- Olophrum
- Ondatra
- †Ondatra idahoensis – type locality for species
- Opheodrys
- †Osmotherium – type locality for genus
- †Osmotherium spelaeum – type locality for species
- Oxytelus
- Panthera
Fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Pleistocene ground sloth Paramylodon - †Paramylodon harlani – tentative report
- Parascalops
- Patrobus
- Pekania
- Pelenomus
- Peromyscus
- †Peromyscus leucopus – tentative report
- †Phanaeus
- †Phanaeus antiquus – type locality for species
- Philonthus
- Phloeotribus
- Pitymys
- †Pitymys cumberlandensis – or unidentified comparable form
- Pityophthorus
Restoration of a herd of alarmed Miocene-Pleistocene peccaries of the genus Platygonus. Charles R. Knight (1922). - †Platygonus vetus – type locality for species
- Platynus
- Podabrus
- Polygraphus
- Pterostichus
- †Pterostichus laevigatus – type locality for species
- †Pterostichus patruelis
- †Pterostichus punctatissimus
- Pycnoglypta
- Quedius
- †Rana
- †Rana pipiens – or unidentified comparable form
- Scalopus
- Simplocaria
Life restoration of the Pleistocene-Holocene saber-tooth cat Smilodon - †Smilodon gracilis – type locality for species
- Sorex
- Sphaeroderus
- †Sphaeroderus nitidicollis – or unidentified comparable form
- Stenus
- Stereocerus
- Sylvilagus
- Synaptomys
- Tachinus
- Tamias
- †Tamias striatus – or unidentified comparable form
A living Tapirus, or tapir - Taxidea
- Terrapene
- Thamnophis
- Thanatophilus
- Thomomys
- Trechus
- †Uncia
- †Uncia mercerii – type locality for species
- Urocyon
A living Urocyon cinereoargenteus, or gray fox
- Ursus
- Vulpes
- Zapus
References edit
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.