List of the Cenozoic life of Alaska

Last updated March 03, 2022

This list of the Cenozoic life of Alaska contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Alaska and are between 66 million and 10,000 years of age.

A

Shell of an Acanthocardia cockle
Acanthocardia
- † Acanthocardia brewerii
Acila
- † Acila brevis – or unidentified related form
- † Acila castrensis
- † Acila ermani
- † Acila gettysburgensis
- † Acila praedivaricata – or unidentified related form
- † Acila shumardi
- † Acila taliaferroi
Acirsa
- † Acirsa borealis
Acmaea
- † Acmaea sybaritica
Acrotrichis – tentative report
† Ademete
Agonum
† Ainus
Alaocybites
- † Alaocybites egorovi – tentative report
A living Alces , or moose
Alces
Alnus
- † Alnus carpinoides
Alopex
- † Alopex lagopus
Alvania
- † Alvania aurivillii
Amara
Amauropsis
- † Amauropsis fetteri – type locality for species
Anabathron
- † Anabathron muriel
Ancistrolepis
- † Ancistrolepis beringianus
- † Ancistrolepis eucosmius
† Anechinocardium
- † Anechinocardium lorenzanum – or unidentified related form
Angulus
- † Angulus lutea
† Anomalosipho – tentative report
Anomia – tentative report
† Aperiploma
- † Aperiploma bainbridgensis
Aphaenogaster
Arca
Arctica
- † Arctica carteriana
- † Arctica ovata
† Arcticlam – type locality for genus
- † Arcticlam nanseni – type locality for species
† Arctodus
- † Arctodus simus
Argobuccinum
- † Argobuccinum oregonensis
Life restoration of the Oligocene river dolphin Arktocara
† Arktocara – type locality for genus
- † Arktocara yakataga – type locality for species
Arrhenopeplus
- † Arrhenopeplus tesserula
Asaphidion
- † Asaphidion yukonense – or unidentified comparable form
Asinus
- † Asinus kiang – or unidentified comparable form
Astarte
- † Astarte arctica
- † Astarte bennetti
- † Astarte borealis
- † Astarte compacta
- † Astarte crenata – or unidentified comparable form
- † Astarte hemicymata
- † Astarte laurentiana – or unidentified related form
- † Astarte martini
- † Astarte nortonensis
- † Astarte vernicosa
Astrangia
- † Astrangia boreas – type locality for species
Fossilized shell of the Paleocene-Miocene nautiloid cephalopod Aturia
† Aturia
- † Aturia alaskensis – type locality for species
- † Aturia angustata
Axinopsida
- † Axinopsida orbiculata – or unidentified comparable form

B

Balanus
- † Balanus balanoides
- † Balanus balanus
- Shell (left, internal view) and calcified basis (right) of a modern Balanus crenatus acorn barnacle
  † Balanus crenatus
- † Balanus evermanni
- † Balanus nubilus – or unidentified comparable form
- † Balanus rostratus
Bembidion
Beringius
- † Beringius crebricostatus
- † Beringius hertleini
Betula
Bibio
Bison
- Mummified specimen found in Alaska of the Pleistocene-Holocene Bison priscus , or steppe bison. This specimen, known as "Blue Babe" after the blue ox of Paul Bunyan folklore, derives its unusual coloration from a chemical reaction between the phosphorus in its skin and iron in the surrounding soil to produce a coating of vivianite.
  † Bison priscus
Bolivina
- † Bolivina decussata
- † Bolivina pseudopicata – or unidentified comparable form
† Bootherium
- † Bootherium bombifrons
Boreotrophon
- † Boreotrophon beringi
- † Boreotrophon rotundatus – or unidentified comparable form
Brachidontes
- † Brachidontes matchgaransis – or unidentified comparable form
Brachypimpla – tentative report
Fossil of the Eocene crab Branchioplax
† Branchioplax
- † Branchioplax washingtoniana
† Bruclarkia
- † Bruclarkia andersoni – or unidentified comparable form
Buccella
- † Buccella frigida
Buccinum
- † Buccinum angulosum
- † Buccinum glaciale
- † Buccinum kurodai – tentative report
- † Buccinum ochotense – or unidentified related form
- † Buccinum pemphigus – or unidentified comparable form
- † Buccinum percrassum
- † Buccinum physematum
- † Buccinum planeticum – or unidentified comparable form
Bulbus
- † Bulbus fragilis
Byrrhus

C

Cadulus
- † Cadulus arcticus
Calliostoma
Callorhinus
- † Callorhinus ursinus
Calyptraea
- † Calyptraea alaskana – or unidentified comparable form
- † Calyptraea diegoana – or unidentified comparable form
Camponotus
Cancellaria
Canis
- A living Canis lupus , or gray wolf
  † Canis lupus
Carabus
- † Carabus nemoralis – or unidentified comparable form
- † Carabus truncaticollis – or unidentified comparable form
† Carex
Caryophyllia
- † Caryophyllia arnoldi
Cassidulina
- † Cassidulina californica
- † Cassidulina islandica
- † Cassidulina teretis
- † Cassidulina tortuosa
Castalia
† Castanaea
- † Castanaea castaneaefolia
Castanea
- † Castanea cataneaefolia
Cepheus
- † Cepheus corae – or unidentified comparable form
Ceratoppia – tentative report
Fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Pleistocene cervid Cervalces , or the stag moose
† Cervalces
Cervus
- † Cervus elaphus
Ceutorhynchus – tentative report
Chama
Chione
- † Chione ensifera
Chirona
- † Chirona alaskana – type locality for species
- † Chirona evermanni
Chlamys
- † Chlamys alaskensis
- † Chlamys albida
- † Chlamys aquilonia
- † Chlamys ashiyaensis – or unidentified related form
- † Chlamys ashiynensis
- † Chlamys coatsi
- † Chlamys cosibensis
- A modern shell of Chlamys islandica , or Iceland scallop
  † Chlamys islandica
- † Chlamys nuwokensis
- † Chlamys rubida
† Chrysodomus – tentative report
Chrysolina
† Chrysomelites – type locality for genus
- † Chrysomelites alaskanus – type locality for species
Cibicides
- † Cibicides lobatulus
Ciliatocardium
- † Ciliatocardium ciliatum
- † Ciliatocardium islandicum – or unidentified related form
Cingula
- † Cingula martyni
Shell of a Clinocardium cockle
Clinocardium
- † Clinocardium californiense – or unidentified comparable form
- † Clinocardium hannibali
- † Clinocardium makiyamae
- † Clinocardium meekianum
- † Clinocardium nuttallii
- † Clinocardium pristinum
Colus
- † Colus halibrectus – or unidentified related form
- † Colus spitsbergensis
† Conchocele
- † Conchocele bisecta
Corbicula
- † Corbicula bibaiensis – or unidentified comparable form
- † Corbicula muratai – or unidentified comparable form
Corbula
- † Corbula betsyae – type locality for species
† Cornwallius
- † Cornwallius sookensis
A living Corylus , or hazel
† Corylus
- † Corylus macquarri
Costacallista
- † Costacallista conradiana
Crassatella
- † Crassatella mathewsoni – or unidentified related form
- † Crassatella nipponicus – or unidentified comparable form
Crenella
- † Crenella kannoi – type locality for species
- † Crenella porterensis
Crepidula
- † Crepidula ungana
Cryptonatica
- † Cryptonatica affinis
Cyclocardia
- † Cyclocardia belogolovensis
- † Cyclocardia crassidens
- † Cyclocardia crebricostata
- † Cyclocardia ezoensis
- † Cyclocardia nuwokensis
- † Cyclocardia roundiformis
- † Cyclocardia sakamotoi
- † Cyclocardia subcrassidens
- † Cyclocardia subnipponica – or unidentified comparable form
- † Cyclocardia tokunagai – or unidentified comparable form
- † Cyclocardia wajampolkensis – or unidentified comparable form
† Cyclocardium
- † Cyclocardium roundiformis – or unidentified comparable form
Cylichna
Cyperus
Cyrtodaria
- † Cyrtodaria katieae – type locality for species
- † Cyrtodaria kurriana
- † Cyrtodaria rutupiensis

D

Dasiops – tentative report
Delphinapterus – tentative report
Dentalium
- † Dentalium nunomae – or unidentified comparable form
Fossilized cranium of the Miocene seal Desmatophoca
† Desmatophoca – tentative report
Diacheila
- † Diacheila matthewsi
Dicrostonyx
Diestothyris
- † Diestothyris frontalis
Dioon
- † Dioon praespinulosum – type locality for species
Diplodonta
- † Diplodonta aleutica
- † Diplodonta parilis
† Dryophyllum
- † Dryophyllum stanleyanum
Dyschirius

E

Seafloor covered in living Echinarachnius sand dollars
Echinarachnius
Echinophoria
- † Echinophoria apta
† Ellipsoscapha
- † Ellipsoscapha sohli – type locality for species
Elphidiella
- † Elphidiella arctica
Elphidium
- † Elphidium alaskense
- † Elphidium clavatum
- † Elphidium frigidum
A living Enhydra lutris , or sea otter
Enhydra
Enicmus
† Epipremnum
- † Epipremnum crassum
Epitonium
- † Epitonium atwoodi
- † Epitonium greenlandicum
Equus
- † Equus alaskae
Erignathus
- † Erignathus barbatus
Erigone
A living Eschrichtius robustus , or gray whale
Eschrichtius
Eumetopias
- † Eumetopias jubata
† Eumorphocorystes
- † Eumorphocorystes naselensis
Euspira
- † Euspira pallida
Evalea
† Exilia – tentative report

F

Fossilized foliage of the Cretaceous-Oligocene flowering plant Flabellaria
† Flabellaria
- † Flabellaria gronlandica
Fortipecten
- † Fortipecten hallae
Fulgoraria

G

Gari
- † Gari brouwersae – type locality for species
Georissus
Globigerina
- A living Globigerina bulloides foraminiferan
  † Globigerina bulloides – or unidentified related form
- † Globigerina pachyderma
Glycymeris
- † Glycymeris sagittatus
- † Glycymeris septentrionalis

H

† Hataiella
- † Hataiella chichibuensis – or unidentified comparable form
- † Hataiella sagai
Helophorus
- † Helophorus splendidus
Hemithiris
- † Hemithiris psittacea
Hiatella
- † Hiatella arctica
Hinnites – tentative report
Histriophoca
- † Histriophoca fasciata
Homalopoma – tentative report
† Hydrodamalis
- Restorative model of the Pleistocene-Holocene manatee relative Hydrodamalis gigas , or Steller's sea cow
  † Hydrodamalis gigas

I

† Integricardium
- † Integricardium kennae – type locality for species
A modern Isurus , or mako shark
Isurus

J

† Jugina
- † Jugina snigella
† Juglna
- † Juglna snigella

K

Kalissus
- † Kalissus nitidus
Karreriella
- † Karreriella baccata
† Kolponomos – or unidentified comparable form
Kurtiella
- † Kurtiella tumida

L

Lasiopodomys
- † Lasiopodomys deceitensis
† Lastraea
- † Lastraea stiriaca
Lathrobium
Laurus
Leistus
Lemmus
- A living Lemmus sibiricus , or Siberian brown lemming
  † Lemmus sibiricus
Leptothorax
Leukoma
- † Leukoma staylei – or unidentified comparable form
Limatula
- † Limatula attenuata
Liocyma
- † Liocyma fluctuosa
Liomesus
- † Liomesus nux
Littorina
- † Littorina sitchana
† Lora
- † Lora skullcliffensis
Lucinoma
- † Lucinoma acutilineata
A living Lunatia moon sea snail
Lunatia
- † Lunatia groenlandica – or unidentified related form
Lyonsia
- † Lyonsia mooreae

M

Interior and exterior of a shell of a Macoma tellin
Macoma
- † Macoma albaria
- † Macoma astori
- † Macoma balthica – or unidentified related form
- † Macoma brota – or unidentified related form
- † Macoma calcarea
- † Macoma golikovi
- † Macoma moesta
- † Macoma optiva
- † Macoma twinensis
Macrocallista – tentative report
Mactromeris
- † Mactromeris albaria
- † Mactromeris brevirostrata
- † Mactromeris polynyma
Magnolia
- † Magnolia inglefieldi
† Mammut
† Mammuthus
- Restoration of a herd of Mammuthus primigenius , or wooly mammoths
  † Mammuthus primigenius
Margarites
- † Margarites peninsularis
Marmota
Martesia – tentative report
Mathilda
- † Mathilda amundseni – type locality for species
Megayoldia
- † Megayoldia montereyensis – or unidentified related form
Messor
† Metacarcinus
- † Metacarcinus goederti
Micridium
Micropeplus
- † Micropeplus hoogendorni – type locality for species
- † Micropeplus hopkinsi – type locality for species
Microtus
Miodontiscus
- † Miodontiscus prolongatus
Mizuhopecten
- † Mizuhopecten mollerensis
Modiolus
- † Modiolus harrimani
† Molopophorus
- † Molopophorus bogachielii – or unidentified comparable form
Musculus
- † Musculus niger
† Mya
- † Mya arenaria – or unidentified comparable form
- † Mya elegans
- † Mya grewingki
- † Mya truncata
Fruit of a living Myrica , or firetree
Myrica
- † Myrica arctogale
† Mytilon – type locality for genus
- † Mytilon theresae – type locality for species
Mytilus
- † Mytilus coalingensis
- † Mytilus edulis
- † Mytilus gratacapi
- † Mytilus middendorffi
- † Mytilus pholadis

N

Namunaria
Natica
- † Natica janthostoma
- † Natica oregonensis
A living Nebria ground beetle
Nebria
† Neilo
- † Neilo gryci – type locality for species
Nemocardium
- † Nemocardium exoense
Neoconorbina
- † Neoconorbina tabernacularis
Neopilumnoplax
- † Neopilumnoplax hannibalanus
Neptunea
- † Neptunea elatior – or unidentified comparable form
- † Neptunea heros
- † Neptunea leffingwelli
- † Neptunea lyrata
- † Neptunea modesta – or unidentified related form
- † Neptunea plafkeri
- † Neptunea tabulata – or unidentified comparable form
- † Neptunea ventricosa
Neverita
- † Neverita washingtonensis
Notiophilus
- † Notiophilus aeneus – or unidentified comparable form
Interior of a fossilized shell of the Early Ordovician-modern marine bivalve Nucula
Nucula
- † Nucula micheleae – type locality for species
Nuculana
- † Nuculana fossa
- † Nuculana moriyai – type locality for species
- † Nuculana morrisi

O

Ochotona
- † Ochotona whartoni
Odobenus
- A living Odobenus rosmarus , or walrus
  † Odobenus rosmarus
Oenopota
- † Oenopota candida
- † Oenopota laevigata
Oolina
- † Oolina borealis
† Orbitoplax – type locality for genus
- † Orbitoplax plafkeri – type locality for species
Oribatella – tentative report
† Orodaphne
Living Osmunda ferns
† Osmunda
- † Osmunda doroschkiana
Ostrea
- † Ostrea lincolnensis – or unidentified related form
- † Ostrea tigiliana
- † Ostrea trigiliana – or unidentified comparable form
† Ounalashkastylus – type locality for genus
- † Ounalashkastylus tomidai – type locality for species
Ovibos
- A living Ovibos moschatus , or muskox
  † Ovibos moschatus
Ovis
- † Ovis dalli – tentative report
† Oxytoma
- † Oxytoma hargrovei – type locality for species

P

A living Pagophilus groenlandicus , or harp seal
Pagophilus
- † Pagophilus groenlandica
Palliolum
- † Palliolum groenlandicum
Pandora
- † Pandora wardiana
Panomya
- † Panomya ampla
- † Panomya izumo
- † Panomya trapezoidis
Papyridea
- † Papyridea harrimani
Parapholas – tentative report
- † Parapholas california
† Parasyrinx
Patrobus
- † Patrobus septentrionis – or unidentified comparable form
Penitella
Periploma
- † Periploma aleutica
- † Periploma besshoense
- † Periploma fragilis – or unidentified related form
† Perse
Phenacomys
- † Phenacomys deeringensis
Phoca
- † Phoca hispida
- A living Phoca vitulina , or harbor seal
  † Phoca vitulina
Picea
- † Picea glauca
- † Picea mariana
- † Picea sitchensis – or unidentified comparable form
Pinus
- † Pinus monticola
Shell of a Pitar venus clam
Pitar
- † Pitar angustifrons
- † Pitar avenalensis – or unidentified comparable form
- † Pitar dalli – or unidentified related form
† Placunopsis
- † Placunopsis rothi – type locality for species
† Planera
- † Planera ungeri
Planulina
- † Planulina alaskensis
Plicifusus
- † Plicifusus kroyeri – or unidentified related form
Pododesmus
- Two living Pododesmus macrochisma or Alaska jingles
  † Pododesmus macrochisma
Polinices
- † Polinices diabloensis
- † Polinices lincolnensis – or unidentified comparable form
- † Polinices pallidus
- † Polinices ramonensis
- † Polinices repenningi – type locality for species
Polymorphina
- † Polymorphina kincaidi
Montage of photographs in spring (top left), summer (top right), autumn (bottom left), and winter (bottom right) of Populus , or poplar tree
Populus
- † Populus balsamoides
- † Populus glandulifera
Portlandia
- † Portlandia ovata
- † Portlandia watasei
† Portunites
- † Portunites alaskensis
† Praeovibos
† Predicrostonyx
- † Predicrostonyx hopkinsi
† Priscofusus
- † Priscofusus clarki
- † Priscofusus stewarti – or unidentified related form
† Protocardia – tentative report
† Protochelydra
- † Protochelydra zangerli – or unidentified comparable form
Protothaca
- † Protothaca staleyi
Pseudarchaster
Pteris
- † Pteris sitkensis
Pterostichus
- † Pterostichus corvinus – or unidentified comparable form
- † Pterostichus vermiculosus – or unidentified comparable form
Puncturella
- † Puncturella longifissa
Purpura
- † Purpura crispata – or unidentified related form
A living Pusa earless seal
Pusa – or unidentified related form
- † Pusa hispida
Pyrgo
- † Pyrgo elongata – or unidentified comparable form
Pyrulofusus
- † Pyrulofusus schraderi

Q

A living Quercus , or oak tree
Quercus
Quinqueloculina
- † Quinqueloculina agglutinata
- † Quinqueloculina akneriana
- † Quinqueloculina seminulum

R

Rangifer
- A living Rangifer tarandus , or reindeer
  † Rangifer tarandus
Raninoides
- † Raninoides vaderensis
Rhabdus
- † Rhabdus schencki – or unidentified comparable form
Rosalina
- † Rosalina wrightii
† Rotalia
- † Rotalia columbiensis

S

Illustration of two Saiga tatarica antelopes
Saiga
Saxidomus
- † Saxidomus callistaeformis – or unidentified comparable form
- † Saxidomus hanzawai
Scaphander
- † Scaphander lignarius – or unidentified comparable form
† Scutella
- † Scutella gabbi
Sequoia
- † Sequoia couttsiae – tentative report
- † Sequoia langsdorfii
- † Sequoia nordenskioldi – tentative report
Serripes
- † Serripes groenlandicus
- † Serripes hamiltonensis
- † Serripes laperousii
† Shedocardia – tentative report
Siliqua
- † Siliqua alta – or unidentified comparable form
Similipecten
- † Similipecten greenlandicus
Simplocaria
Shell of the whelk sea snail Siphonalia
Siphonalia
- † Siphonalia sakakurai – or unidentified related form
† Skeneopsis
- † Skeneopsis alaskana
Solamen
- † Solamen leana
Solena
Sorex
Spermophilus
- † Spermophilus undulatus
Spirorbis
Spirotropis
- † Spirotropis perversa – or unidentified comparable form
Spisula
- † Spisula addicotti
- † Spisula callistaeformis
- † Spisula eugenense – or unidentified related form
- † Spisula hannibali – or unidentified comparable form
Stenus
† Streptochetus – tentative report
Strongylocentrotus
- † Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis
Branch with fruit of a Symphoricarpos , or snowberry shrub
† Symphoricarpos

T

Tachinus
- † Tachinus apertus – or unidentified comparable form
Tachyrhynchus
- † Tachyrhynchus erosus
† Tancredia
- † Tancredia slavichi – type locality for species
† Taxites
- † Taxites olriki
Taxodium
- Living Taxodium distichum , or bald cypresses
  † Taxodium distichum
- † Taxodium dubium
- † Taxodium occidentale
- † Taxodium tinajorum
Tellina
- † Tellina aragonia
† Tellinimera
- † Tellinimera kauffmani – type locality for species
Terebratula
- † Terebratula retusa – or unidentified related form
Terebratulina
- † Terebratulina retusa – or unidentified related form
Thracia
- † Thracia condoni
- † Thracia septentrionalis – or unidentified related form
Thyasira
- † Thyasira arctica
A living Tonicella , or lined chiton
Tonicella
- † Tonicella marmorea
† Trichohyalis
- † Trichohyalis ornatissima
Trichotropis
- † Trichotropis bicarinata
† Triloculine
- † Triloculine trigonula
† Tsuga
- A living Tsuga heterophylla , or western hemlock
  † Tsuga heterophylla
Turritella
- † Turritella uvasana
Turtonia
- † Turtonia minuta
† Tymolus
- † Tymolus alaskensis – type locality for species
† Tyrannoberingius
- † Tyrannoberingius rex
† Tyrranoberingius
- † Tyrranoberingius rex

U

A living Ulmus , or elm
Ulmus
Ursus
† Uya
- † Uya arenaria – or unidentified related form

V

A variety of modern Vaccinium species, clockwise from top right: cranberries, lingonberries, blueberries, and huckleberries
† Vaccinium
Venericardia
- † Venericardia clarki – or unidentified related form
Veraphis – tentative report
† Vertipecten
Vitavitus
- † Vitavitus thulius – or unidentified comparable form
Vitis
- † Vitis olriki
Volutopsius
- † Volutopsius stefanssoni – or unidentified related form
Vulpes
- A living Vulpes vulpes , or red fox
  † Vulpes vulpes

X

A living Xysticus crab spider
Xysticus
- † Xysticus archaeopalpus – type locality for species

Y

Yoldia
- † Yoldia breweri – or unidentified comparable form
- † Yoldia emersoni – or unidentified comparable form
- † Yoldia gladenkovi – type locality for species
- † Yoldia palachei – or unidentified comparable form
- † Yoldia scissurata
- † Yoldia sobrina
Yoldiella
- † Yoldiella scissurata

References

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List of the Cenozoic life of Alaska

Contents

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