List of the prehistoric life of North Dakota
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This list of the prehistoric life of North Dakota contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of North Dakota.
Precambrian
editThe Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in North Dakota.
Paleozoic
edit- †Acrotreta
- †Acrotreta attica – or unidentified comparable form
- †Amphipora
- †Apatokephalus
- †Apheoorthis
- †Arthroclema
- †Arthrotrypa
- †Aulacoparia
- †Benthamaspis
- †Bucanella
- †Bucanella nana – or unidentified related form
- †Ceratopea
- †Drepanodus
- †Euconia
- †Euconia conicus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Finkelnburgia
- †Hystricurus
- †Kainella
- †Lecanospira
- †Licnocephala
Illustration of a fossilized shell of the Cambrian-Late Ordovician brachiopod Lingulella - †Lingulella ibicus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Lloydia
- †Macluritella – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Macluritella ornata – type locality for species
- †Nanorthis
- †Nematoporella
- †Psalikilus
- †Raphistomina
- †Reubenella
- †Sceptropora
- †Schizambon
- †Strigigenalis
- †Syntrophina
- †Thamnopora
- †Tropidodiscus
- †Ulrichostylus
Mesozoic
edit- Acipenser
- †Adocus
Restorative model of the Late Cretaceous mammal Alphadon - †Altacreodus
- †Amersinia
- †Amersinia FU082 – informal
- †Amersinia FU82 – informal
- †Amesoneuron
- †Amesoneuron FU037 – informal
- †Amesoneuron FU37 – informal
- †Ampelopsis
- †Anomia
- †Anzu
- †Araliaephyllum
Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous sea turtle Archelon - †Artocarpus
- †Asimina
- Aspideretes
- Atractosteus
- †Avisaurus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Axestemys
- Azolla
- †Azolla gigantea – type locality for species
- †Basilemys
- †Belonostomus
- †Bisonia
Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous crocodilian Borealosuchus - †Boremys
- †Brachychampsa
- Campeloma
- Carcharias
- †Carpites
- †Cedrobaena
- †Celastrus
- †Ceratophyllum
- †Ceratophyllum FU080 – informal
- †Cercidiphyllales
- †Cercidiphyllales HC355 – informal
- Cercidiphyllum
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous-Eocene choristoderan reptile Champsosaurus - †Cimolodon
- Cinnamomum
- †Cissites
- †Clisocolus
- †Cocculus
- †Compsemys – type locality for genus
- †Compsemys victa – type locality for species
- †Corbulamella
- †Coriops
- †Coriops amnicolus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Cornophyllum
- Cornus – or unidentified related form
- †Crassatellina
Fossilized shell of the Cretaceous-modern oyster Crassostrea - †Crenella
- Cucullaea
- †Cupressinocladus
- †Cuspidaria
- †Cyclurus
- †Cymbophora
- †Cypercites – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Dalbergites – or unidentified related form
- †Dammarites
- †Dammarites HC257 – informal
- Dicotylophyllum
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous marsupial relative Didelphodon - †Dosiniopsis
- †Dryophyllum
- †Edmontosaurus
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens
- †Elasmodus
- †Elatides
- †Emarginachelys
- †Enchodus
- †Equisetum
- †Equisetum FU036 – informal
- †Equisetum FU36 – informal
- †Erlingdorfia
- †Essonodon
- †Ethmocardium
- Ficus
- †Fokieniopsis
- †Gamerabaena – type locality for genus
- †Gamerabaena sonsalla – type locality for species
- †Gilmoremys
Fossilized leaf of the Permian-modern tree Ginkgo - †Glasbius
- Glyptostrobus
- †Glyptostrobus europaeus
- †Glyptostrobus HC9 – informal
- †Goniomya
- †Grammatodon
- †Grewiopsis
- †Gypsonictops
- †Gyrostrea
- †Habrosaurus
- †Harmsia
- †Helopanoplia
- †Hoplochelys
- †Hoplochelys clark – type locality for species
Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Hoploscaphites - †Hummelichelys
- †Humulus
- †Humulus HC243 – informal
- †Hydropteris
- †Hypoxytoma
- †Inoceramus – tentative report
- †Ischyodus
- †Ischyodus rayhaasi – type locality for species
- †Ischyrhiza
- †Judithemys
- Juglans – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
A modern Lamna mackerel shark - †Laurophyllum
- †Leepierceia
- †Lemnaceae
- Lepisosteus
- Limopsis
- †Lioplacodes
- †Liriodendrites
Foliage and flower of a living Liriodendron tulipifera, or American Tulip-tree - †Lisserpeton
- †Lisserpeton bairdi – or unidentified comparable form
- †Lonchidion
- †Macclintockia – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- Malletia
- Marchantia
- †Marmarthia
- †Melvius
Fossilized skull of the Late Cretaceous multituberculate mammal Meniscoessus - †Mesocyparis
- †Mesodma
- Metasequoia
- †Metasequoia HC035 – informal
- †Metasequoia HC35 – informal
- †Metasequoia occidentalis
- †Modiolus
- †Myledaphus
- Myliobatis
- Myrica
A living Nelumbo lotus - †Nelumbo FU062 – informal
- †Nelumbo FU085 – informal
- †Nelumbo FU62 – informal
- †Nelumbo HC202 – informal
- †Neurankylus
- †Nilsonia
- †Nilssoniocladus
- †Nordenskioldia
Interior of a fossilized shell of the Early Ordovician-modern marine bivalve Nucula - Nuculana
- †Nyssidium
- Odontaspis
- †Ophiomorpha
- †Opisthotriton
- †Osmunda
Fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus - †Palaeosaniwa
- †Palatobaena
- †Palatobaena cohen – type locality for species
- †Paleoaster
- †Paloreodoxites
- Panopea
- †Paranymphaea
Electron micrograph of the fossilized teeth in multiple views of the Late Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Paronychodon - Periploma
- †Phelopteria
- †Philodendron
- †Philodendron HC201 – informal
- Physa
- †Piceoerpeton
- †Pistia
- †Platanites
- Platanus
Restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Platecarpus - †Plesiobaena
- †Plioplatecarpus
- Populus
- †Protocardia
- †Protochelydra
- †Protolambda
- †Pseudoptera
- †Pterospermites
- †Quereuxia
- †Rhamnus
- †Richardoestesia
- †Salvinia
- †Salvinia HC312 – informal
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous dromaeosaurid Saurornitholestes preying upon a multituberculate mammal - †Scapanorhynchus – tentative report
- †Scapherpeton
- †Scaphites
- †Sequoia
- †Sequoia HC070 – informal
- †Sequoia HC70 – informal
- †Sequoia obovata – or unidentified comparable form
- †Sourimis
Shells in differing orientations of Sphaerium freshwater clams - †Squatirhina
- †Syncyclonema
- †Tancredia
- Taxodium
- †Taxodium HC071 – informal
- †Taxodium olrikii
- †Tellinimera
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous herbivorous dinosaur Thescelosaurus - †Thoracosaurus
- †Torosaurus
- †Trachodon
- †Triceratops
- †Trochodendroides
- †Troodon
Fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous tyrannosaur Tyrannosaurus - †Vetericardiella
- Vitis
- †Zingiberopsis
- Ziziphus
Cenozoic
editSelected Cenozoic taxa of North Dakota
edit- Acer
- †Aesculus
- †Agnotocastor
- †Aletodon
Fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous-Oligocene Alligator relative Allognathosuchus - Amia
- †Ampelopsis
- †Archaeocyon
- †Archaeotherium
- †Arctocyon
- Azolla
- †Batrachosauroides
- Betula
- †Bisonalveus
- †Borealosuchus
- †Borealosuchus formidabilis – type locality for species
- †Bothriodon
Restorative portrait of the Miocene oreodont mammal Brachycrus - †Cabomba
- †Cantius
- Carya
- Celtis
- †Ceratophyllum
- Cercidiphyllum
- †Champsosaurus
- Cocculus
- †Coniophis
- Cornus
A living Corylus, or hazel - †Coryphodon
- †Credneria
- Cyclocarya
- †Daphoenus
- †Davidia
- †Dennstaedtia
- †Diacodexis – tentative report
- †Diceratherium
- †dicot
- †Didymictis
Life restoration of the Eocene-Miocene false saber-toothed cat Dinictis. Robert Bruce Horsfall (1913). - †Dissacus
- †Dombeya
- †Domnina
- †Echmatemys
- †Ectocion
- †Elliptio
- †Elomeryx
- †Equisetum
- †Error
- †Eucommia
- Ficus
- †Fraxinus
- Ginkgo
Restored foliage of the Late Cretaceous-Miocene ginkgo tree Ginkgo adiantoides
- Glyptostrobus
- †Helodermoides
- Hemitelia
- †Herpetotherium
- †Herpetotherium fugax – or unidentified comparable form
- †Hesperocyon
- †Homogalax
- †Hydromystria
- †Hyopsodus
- †Hypertragulus
- †Hyracodon
Fossilized skeleton of the Eocene-Oligocene rodent Ischyromys - †Joffrichthys
- Juglans
- †Kalmia – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Lemnaceae
- Lepisosteus
- †Leptauchenia
- †Leptictis
- †Leptomeryx
- Lygodium
- Marchantia
Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Miocene-Pleistocene ground sloth Megalonyx - †Meliosma
- †Merychyus
- †Merycochoerus
- †Merycoidodon
- †Mesodma
- †Mesohippus
- †Metamynodon
- Metasequoia
- †Miacis
- †Microcosmodon
- †Microsyops
- †Mimetodon
- †Miniochoerus
- †Miohippus
- †Nanotragulus
A living Nelumbo lotus - †Nelumbo aureavallis – type locality for species
- †Neoplagiaulax
- †Nephrops
- †Nototeredo
- †Nyssa
- †Onoclea
- †Ophiomorpha
- †Oreithyia
- †Osbornodon
- †Osmunda
- †Oxyacodon
- †Palaeolagus
- †Palaeoryctes
- †Palaeosinopa
- †Paramys
- †Parectypodus
Fossilized skull of the Eocene-Oligocene lizard Peltosaurus - †Phenacodus
- †Piceoerpeton
- Pinus
- †Pinus peregrinus – type locality for species
- Platanus
- Platycarya
- †Plesiadapis
- †Poebrotherium
- Populus
- †Prochetodon
Life restoration of a female (left) and male of the Oligocene-Miocene even-toed ungulate Protoceras. Charles R. Knight (1896). - †Protochelydra
- †Protungulatum
- †Psidium – tentative report
- Pterocarya
- †Ptilodus
- Quercus
- Rhineura – or unidentified comparable form
- Sagittaria
- †Salvinia
- †Saniwa
- †Saniwa ensidens – or unidentified comparable form
- †Scapherpeton
- †Selaginella
- †Simoedosaurus
- †Sparganium
- †Spathorhynchus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Stillingia
- †Subhyracodon
- Taxodium
- †Teilhardina
- Thamnophis
- †Thuja
Life restoration of the Paleocene pantodont mammal Titanoides - †Titanoides primaevus – type locality for species
- †Trapa
- †Trigonias
- †Viburnum
- †Wannaganosuchus – type locality for genus
- †Wannaganosuchus brachymanus – type locality for species
- †Woodwardia
References
edit- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 7 August 2017.