List of the Cenozoic life of New Jersey

Last updated July 03, 2022

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

A

† Acanthionella
- † Acanthionella simplex
Acanthodesia
- † Acanthodesia savarti
Fossilized teeth of the Permian-Paleocene cartilaginous fish Acrodus
† Acrodus
- † Acrodus humilus
Actaeonema
- † Actaeonema priscum
Acteocina
- † Acteocina canaliculata
- † Acteocina kirkwoodiana – type locality for species
Aetobatus
- † Aetobatus irregularis
† Agabelus – type locality for genus
- † Agabelus porcatus – type locality for species
Aligena
- † Aligena elevata
† Ambigostrea
- † Ambigostrea tecticosta
† Ammodon
- † Ammodon leidyanum – type locality for species
Amphiblestrum
- † Amphiblestrum heteropora
Assemblage of fossilized skeletons of the softshell turtle Amyda
Amyda
- † Amyda lima – type locality for species
- † Amyda pennata – type locality for species
Anachis
- † Anachis avara
Anadara
- † Anadara lienosa
- † Anadara ovalis
- † Anadara transversa
† Anchippodus
- † Anchippodus riparius
Angulus
- † Angulus agilis
- † Angulus producta
Anomia
- † Anomia simplex
† Araloselachus
- † Araloselachus cuspidata
Arca
- † Arca improcera
- † Arca millvillensis
- † Arca quindecemradiata
Architectonica
- † Architectonica annosa
Argopecten
- † Argopecten gibbus
- † Argopecten irradians
Argyrotheca
- † Argyrotheca beecheri
Shell of a modern Astarte bivalve
Astarte
- † Astarte castanea
- † Astarte castanella
- † Astarte cuneiformis
- † Astarte distans
- † Astarte perplana
- † Astarte planimarginata
- † Astarte symmetrica
- † Astarte thomasii
- † Astarte undulata
Astrangia
- † Astrangia danae
Astyris
- † Astyris communis
- † Astyris lunata
Athleta
- † Athleta abbotti
- † Athleta cancellatus
Atrina
- † Atrina rostriformis
Fossilized shell of the Paleocene-Miocene nautiloid cephalopod Aturia
† Aturia
- † Aturia vanuxemi
† Aturoidea
- † Aturoidea paucifex – type locality for species
- † Aturoidea pilsbryi – type locality for species

B

Balanophyllia
- † Balanophyllia inauris – type locality for species
Fossilized shells of the Jurassic-modern barnacle Balanus
Balanus
Barbatia
- † Barbatia marylandica
Barnea
- † Barnea truncata
† Bathosella
- † Bathosella aspera
Bathytormus
- † Bathytormus alaeformis
† Belosphys
Bicorbula
- † Bicorbula idonea
Bison
† Bonellitia – or unidentified comparable form
- † Bonellitia rudis
† Bootherium
- Fossilized skeleton of the Pleistocene-Holocene bovid Bootherium bombifrons , or Harlan's musk ox.
  † Bootherium bombifrons
Buccinum
- † Buccinum undatum
† Bulliopsis
- † Bulliopsis integra
Busycon
- † Busycon carica
- † Busycon perversum
Busycotypus
- † Busycotypus canaliculatus

C

Cadulus
- † Cadulus conradi
† Calappilia
Callianassa – tentative report
Calliostoma
- † Calliostoma eboreum
- † Calliostoma tullneri
Calyptraea
† Calyptraphorus
- † Calyptraphorus jacksoni
Carcharias
- † Carcharias teretidens
Carcharodon
- Fossilized tooth of the Miocene-Pliocene shark Cosmopolitodus hastalis , or broad-toothed mako
  † Carcharodon hastalis
Cardita
- † Cardita aculeata
Carditamera
- † Carditamera arata
Cardites
- † Cardites antiquata
Cardium [ fr; nl; sv ]
- † Cardium knappi
- † Cardium nucleolum
† Caricella
- † Caricella lelia
- † Caricella plicata
- † Caricella ponderosa
- † Caricella vesta
† Carinorbis
- † Carinorbis dalli
† Carolinapecten
- † Carolinapecten eboreus
Caryocorbula
- † Caryocorbula contracta
Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Pleistocene giant beaver Castoroides
† Castoroides
† Catopygus
- † Catopygus oviformis
Cavilinga
- † Cavilinga trisulcata
† Cavoscala
- † Cavoscala annulata
Cerithiopsis
- † Cerithiopsis emersonii
† Cervalces
Chaetopleura
- † Chaetopleura apiculata
Chama
- † Chama congregata
† Cheilophis
- † Cheilophis huerfanoensis
Cheilopora – tentative report
- † Cheilopora jabiosa
Chelone
- † Chelone parvitecta – type locality for species
† Chesacardium
- † Chesacardium craticuloides
- † Chesacardium laqueatum
Fossilized shells of the Miocene-Pleistocene scallop Chesapecten
† Chesapecten
- † Chesapecten madisonius
Chionopsis
- † Chionopsis intapurpurea
Chlamys
- † Chlamys kneiskerni
- † Chlamys rigbyi
Cidaris
- † Cidaris splendens – type locality for species
† Cistella
- † Cistella plicatilis
Multiple views of a fossilized shell of the Paleocene-Pliocene spindle sea snail Clavilithes
Clavilithes
- † Clavilithes hercules
- † Clavilithes nobilis
- † Clavilithes paucicostatus
- † Clavilithes propinquus
- † Clavilithes samsoni
Clementia
- † Clementia inoceriformis
Cliona – tentative report
Conus
- † Conus sauridens
Corbula
- † Corbula elevata
- † Corbula ima
- † Corbula inaequalis
- † Corbula nasutoides
† Coscinopleura
- † Coscinopleura digitata
Crassatella
- † Crassatella compressirostrea
- † Crassatella conradi
- † Crassatella littoralis
- † Crassatella obliquata
- † Crassatella rhombea
- † Crassatella vadosa
Crassinella
- † Crassinella lunulata
- † Crassinella profundorum
Crassostrea
- † Crassostrea virginica
Crenella
- † Crenella glandula
Crepidula
- † Crepidula convexa
- † Crepidula fornicata
- † Crepidula plana
Fossil of the Early Cretaceous-Eocene shark Cretolamna
† Cretolamna
- † Cretolamna appendiculata
† Crocodilus
- † Crocodilus basitruncatus – type locality for species
Crocodylus
- † Crocodylus clavirostris – type locality for species
† Crommyodus
- † Crommyodus irregularis
Crucibulum
- † Crucibulum costata
- † Crucibulum striatum
† Cryphaeostrea
- † Cryphaeostrea vomer
† Ctenocella
- † Ctenocella rutgersensis
† Cubitostrea
- † Cubitostrea linguafelis
Shell of a Cucullaea , or false ark shell
Cucullaea
- † Cucullaea antrosa
- † Cucullaea compressirostra
- † Cucullaea macrodonta
- † Cucullaea vulgaris
Cumingia
- † Cumingia tellinoides
Cuspidaria
- † Cuspidaria aequivalvis
Cyclocardia
- † Cyclocardia granulata
Cylichna
- † Cylichna conica
† Cylindracanthus
- † Cylindracanthus acus
- † Cylindracanthus rectus
Cythara – tentative report
Cytherea

D

† Dallarca
- † Dallarca idonea
- † Dallarca staminea
- † Dallarca subrostrata
A living Dasyatis stingray
Dasyatis
- † Dasyatis crosswickense – type locality for species
Dentalina
- † Dentalina fissicostata – or unidentified comparable form
Dentalium
† Dhondtichlamys
- † Dhondtichlamys delawarensis – type locality for species
Diaperoecia
- † Diaperoecia varians
Diastoma
- † Diastoma insulaemaris
† Diatryma
- † Diatryma regens
Restoration of the Oligocene-Miocene hornless rhinoceros Diceratherium . Robert Bruce Horsfall (1913).
† Diceratherium
- † Diceratherium matutinum
Diodora
- † Diodora griscomi
Diplodonta
- † Diplodonta acclinis
- † Diplodonta punctata
- † Diplodonta shilohensis
Diplosolen
- † Diplosolen compactum
Discinisca
- † Discinisca lugubris
Divalinga
- † Divalinga quadrisulcata
† Dolicholatirus
- † Dolicholatirus eocenensis
† Dollochelys
Donax
- † Donax abesconi
- † Donax fossor
Fossil shell of the Cretaceous-modern marine venus clam Dosinia
Dosinia
- † Dosinia acetabulum
† Dromiopsis
- † Dromiopsis americana

E

Echinarachnius
† Echinocorys
- † Echinocorys ovalis – type locality for species
† Echinopsis
- † Echinopsis diatreta – type locality for species
Illustration of a fossilized shell of the Eocene-Pliocene murex sea snail Ecphora
† Ecphora
- † Ecphora tricostata
Edaphodon
- † Edaphodon agassizi
- † Edaphodon eocaenus
- † Edaphodon mantelli
Ellisina
- † Ellisina angusta
- † Ellisina spiculosa
† Emballorhynchus – type locality for genus
- † Emballorhynchus kinnei – type locality for species
† Enchodus
- † Enchodus ferox
Endopachys
Ensis
- † Ensis directus
† Eocypraea
- † Eocypraea sabuloviridis
Eontia
- † Eontia palmerae
- † Eontia ponderosa
† Eopleurotoma – tentative report
- † Eopleurotoma altispira
- † Eopleurotoma regularicostata
† Eosphargis
- † Eosphargis insularis – type locality for species
Fossilized cranium in multiple views of the Paleocene-Eocene gavial relative Eosuchus
† Eosuchus
- † Eosuchus minor – type locality for species
Epitonium
- † Epitonium annulatum
- † Epitonium humphreysii
- † Epitonium rupicola
- † Epitonium tenuiliratum
Equus
Ervilia
† Etea
- † Etea delawarensis
- † Etea delwarensis
Eupleura
- † Eupleura caudata
† Euritina
- † Euritina torta
Euspira
- † Euspira halli
- † Euspira heros
- † Euspira triseriata
† Eutrephoceras
† Eutrophoceras
- † Eutrophoceras dekayi

F

Falsifusus
- † Falsifusus hector
Shell of a Fasciolaria , or tulip sea snail
Fasciolaria – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- † Fasciolaria crookiana
Flabellum
- † Flabellum cuneiformis
- † Flabellum mortoni – type locality for species
† Florimetis
- † Florimetis biplicata
Fossarus – tentative report
- † Fossarus lyra

G

A living Galeocerdo cuvier , or tiger shark
Galeocerdo
- † Galeocerdo aduncus
- † Galeocerdo egertonii
Galeodea
† Gauthieria
- † Gauthieria speciosa – type locality for species
Gemma
- † Gemma gemma
Geukensia
- † Geukensia demissa
Ginglymostoma
- † Ginglymostoma obliquum
Glans
- † Glans intermedia
Fossil tube of the Jurassic-modern polychaete worm Glomerula
† Glomerula
- † Glomerula vincentownensis
Glossus
- † Glossus conradi
- † Glossus vetus
Glycymeris
- † Glycymeris conradi
- † Glycymeris parilis
- † Glycymeris subaustralis
† Gorgonella
† Graphaeostrea
- † Graphaeostrea vomer
† Graphularia
- † Graphularia ambigua
Interior and exterior of a fossilized shell of the Late Triassic-Eocene marine bivalve Gryphaea
† Gryphaea
- † Gryphaea dissimilaris
† Gryphaeostrea
- † Gryphaeostrea vomer
Gyrodes

H

† Hadranderaster
- † Hadranderaster asperulus
† Hamulus – or unidentified comparable form
- † Hamulus falcatus
Haustator – or unidentified comparable form
- † Haustator elongatus
Hemiaster
- † Hemiaster parastatus – type locality for species
- † Hemiaster stella – type locality for species
- † Hemiaster ungula
Hemimactra
- † Hemimactra solidissima
Hemipristis
- Fossilized teeth of the Miocene weasel shark Hemipristis serra
  † Hemipristis serra
Heptranchias
- † Heptranchias howelli – type locality for species
Hespererato
- † Hespererato emmonsi
† Hesperhys
- † Hesperhys antiquus
Heteropora
- † Heteropora tecta
Hexanchus
- † Hexanchus ensis
- † Hexanchus microdon
- † Hexanchus primigenius
Hiatella
- Two modern shells, closed (left) and open (right), of Hiatella arctica , also known as the wrinkled rock-borer
  † Hiatella arctica
- † Hiatella myaeformis
- † Hiatella parilis
† Histiophorus
- † Histiophorus homalorhamphus
- † Histiophorus parvulus – type locality for species
† Holaster
- † Holaster cinctus – type locality for species
Hydroides
- † Hydroides primitiva
† Hypolophites
- † Hypolophites hutchinsi – type locality for species
† Hypolophodon
- † Hypolophodon sylvestris
† Hyposaurus – type locality for genus
- † Hyposaurus rogersii – type locality for species

I

Ilyanassa
- † Ilyanassa obsoleta
- † Ilyanassa trivittata
Ischadium
- † Ischadium recurvum
† Ischnodactylus
- † Ischnodactylus cultellus
Fossilized skeleton of the Middle Jurassic-Miocene Chimaera relative Ischyodus
† Ischyodus
- † Ischyodus williamsae
† Ischyrhiza
- † Ischyrhiza mira
Isognomon
- † Isognomon maxillata
Isurus
- † Isurus acuminatus
† Ixacanthus
- † Ixacanthus coelospondylus

K

† Kapalmerella
- † Kapalmerella mortoni
† Kummelia
- † Kummelia americana
- † Kummelia mortoni
† Kummelonautilus
- † Kummelonautilus bryani
- † Kummelonautilus cookanus
Kurtziella
- † Kurtziella cerina

L

Laevicardium
- † Laevicardium mortoni
A modern Lamna mackerel shark
Lamna
- † Lamna obliqua
Latirus
- † Latirus angularis
- † Latirus perobesus
- † Latirus pleuricostatus
† Lekythionia
- † Lekythionia dichotoma
† Lembonax
- † Lembonax propylaeus – type locality for species
Lemintina
- † Lemintina granifera
† Leptomactra
- † Leptomactra delumbis
Leptomaria – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- † Leptomaria pergranulosa
Libinia
- Illustration of a living Libinia emarginata , or portly spider crab
  † Libinia emarginata
† Linthia
- † Linthia tumidula
Lirophora
- † Lirophora latilirata
Lithophaga
- † Lithophaga subalveata
Littoraria
- † Littoraria irrorata
† Longitubus
Lunatia
- † Lunatia hemicrypta
Lunularia
- † Lunularia reversa

M

Macoma
- † Macoma balthica
- † Macoma calcarea
Macrocallista
- † Macrocallista marylandica
Macropora
- † Macropora aquiae
Mactra
- † Mactra clathrodon
- † Mactra insulaemaris
† Mammut
- Restoration of a Mammut americanum , or American mastodon
  † Mammut americanum
† Mammuthus
† Mariacolpus
- † Mariacolpus plebeia
Marshallora
- † Marshallora nigrocincta
† Marvacrassatella
- † Marvacrassatella melina
Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Miocene-Pleistocene ground sloth Megalonyx
† Megalonyx
Melampus
- † Melampus bidentatus
Melanella
- † Melanella eborea
- † Melanella retrocita
† Melosia
- † Melosia staminea
Membraniporella
- † Membraniporella crassula
- † Membraniporella modesta
† Membraniporina
- † Membraniporina rimulata
† Meniscopora
- † Meniscopora sultplana
Life restoration of the Miocene rhinoceros Menoceras
† Menoceras
- † Menoceras barbouri – or unidentified comparable form
Mercenaria
- † Mercenaria campechiensis
- † Mercenaria ducatelli
- † Mercenaria mercenaria
- † Mercenaria plena
Mesodesma
- † Mesodesma arctatum
- † Mesodesma deauratum
Mitrella
- † Mitrella laevis
Modiolus
- † Modiolus ducatellii
- † Modiolus johnsoni
- Shells of Modiolus modiolus , or northern horsemussels
  † Modiolus modiolus
- † Modiolus ovata
- † Modiolus ovatus
- † Modiolus subinflatus
† Montlivaltia
- † Montlivaltia atlantica
Morus
- † Morus atlanticus – type locality for species
Mulinia
- † Mulinia lateralis
Murex
- † Murex laevavaricosus
- † Murex millvillensis
Murexiella
- † Murexiella cumberlandiana
- † Murexiella shilohensis
† Muricidea
- † Muricidea burnsi
† Mya
- † Mya arenaria
- † Mya producta
† Myliobates
- † Myliobates bisulcus – type locality for species
Two living Myliobatis eagle rays
Myliobatis
- † Myliobatis dixoni – type locality for species
- † Myliobatis fastigiatus
- † Myliobatis jugosus
- † Myliobatis magister
- † Myliobatis obesus
- † Myliobatis striatus
Mytilus
- † Mytilus edulis
- † Mytilus incurvus

N

A living Nassarius , or nassa mud snail
Nassarius
- † Nassarius acutus
- † Nassarius trivittatoides
- † Nassarius vibex
Natica – or unidentified comparable form
- † Natica globulella
Nemocardium
- † Nemocardium curtum
† Nemodon
- † Nemodon brevifrons
Neptunea
- † Neptunea lyrata
- † Neptunea stonei
Neverita
- † Neverita duplicatus
Nodosaria
- † Nodosaria zippei
Notidanus
- † Notidanus primigenius
Nucleolites
- † Nucleolites aequoreus
Interior of a fossilized shell of the Early Ordovician-modern marine bivalve Nucula
Nucula
- † Nucula circe
- † Nucula major
- † Nucula proxima
- † Nucula secunda
- † Nucula sinaria
Nuculana
- † Nuculana albaria
- † Nuculana cultelliformis
- † Nuculana liciata

O

Odobenus
- A living Odobenus rosmarus , or walrus
  † Odobenus rosmarus
Odontaspis
- † Odontaspis macrota
† Odontofusus – or unidentified comparable form
† Odotus
- † Odotus obliquus
† Oleneothyris
- † Oleneothyris harlani
† Olenothyria
- † Olenothyria harlani
† Olenothyris
- † Olenothyris harlani
Olivella
- † Olivella mutica
Ophiacantha – tentative report
† Ophiocoma – tentative report
- † Ophiocoma senonensis
Ophiomusium
- † Ophiomusium stephensoni
† Ophiotitanos – tentative report
- † Ophiotitanos serrata
Ostrea
- † Ostrea bryani
- † Ostrea compressirostra
- † Ostrea compressirostrea
- † Ostrea dissimilaris
- † Ostrea glandiformis
- † Ostrea glauconoides
- † Ostrea panda
† Otodus
- † Otodus angustidens
- Diagram illustrating the largest (grey) and most conservative (red) size estimates of the Miocene-Pliocene shark Carcharocles megalodon (sometimes Carcharodon or Otodusmegalodon) with a whale shark (violet), great white shark (green), and anachronistic human (black) to scale
  † Otodus megalodon
Ovibos
- † Ovibos moschatus
† Oxyrhina
- † Oxyrhina desorii
- † Oxyrhina minuta
- † Oxyrhina nova
- † Oxyrhina xiphiodon

P

† Palaeocarcharodon
† Palaeogaleus
- † Palaeogaleus vincenti
† Palaeohypotodus
- † Palaeohypotodus rutoti
Restoration of the Cretaceous-Eocene sea snake Palaeophis
† Palaeophis
- † Palaeophis grandis – type locality for species
- † Palaeophis halidanus – type locality for species
- † Palaeophis littoralis
Paliurus
- † Paliurus triangularis
Pandora
- † Pandora gouldiana
- † Pandora trilineata
Panopea
- † Panopea elliptica
- † Panopea whifieldi
Panopeus
- † Panopeus estellensis
- † Panopeus jerseyensis
† Papillina
- † Papillina conradi
- † Papillina eocenica
Parapholas
- † Parapholas kneiskerni
† Partretocycloecia
- † Partretocycloecia dumosa
Parvilucina
- † Parvilucina crenulata
- † Parvilucina prunus
Pecten
- † Pecten humphreysii
- † Pecten madisonius
- † Pecten madisonus
Penion – or unidentified comparable form
- † Penion multicostatus
Life restoration of the Middle Triassic-Eocene crinoid ("sea lily") Pentacrinites
† Pentacrinites
- † Pentacrinites bryani
† Pentacrinus
- † Pentacrinus bryani
Periploma
- † Periploma peralta
† Periplomya
- † Periplomya truncata
† Perissolax
- † Perissolax trivolva
- † Perissolax trivolvus
† Peritresius
- † Peritresius ornatus
† Peronidella
- † Peronidella dichotoma
Petricola
- † Petricola novaegyptica
- † Petricola pholadiformis
† Phacodus – type locality for genus
- † Phacodus irregularis – type locality for species
† Phasganodus
- † Phasganodus gentryi – type locality for species
Phoca
Phyllodus
- † Phyllodus curvidens
- † Phyllodus elegans – type locality for species
- † Phyllodus toliapicus – type locality for species
Phyllonotus
- † Phyllonotus millvillensis
A living Physeter macrocephalus , or sperm whale
Physeter
- † Physeter antiquus
† Piestochilus
- † Piestochilus kanei
Pinna
- † Pinna rostriformis
Pitar
- † Pitar morrhuanus
- † Pitar ovalis
- † Pitar ovatus
- † Pitar veta
- † Pitar vetus
† Plagiochasma
- † Plagiochasma crucifer
Plagioecia
- † Plagioecia subramosa
Platidia
- † Platidia cretacea
Pleuromeris
- † Pleuromeris tridentata
Fossilized shell of a Pleurotomaria slit snail
Pleurotomaria
- † Pleurotomaria brittoni
- † Pleurotomaria crotaloides
- † Pleurotomaria perlata
- † Pleurotomaria tintonensis
† Pleurotrema
- † Pleurotrema solariforme
- † Pleurotrema solariformis
Plicatula
- † Plicatula densata
- † Plicatula gibbosa
- † Plicatula inornata
† Plinthicus
- † Plinthicus stenodon
Fossilized shell of the Paleocene-modern moon snail Polinices
Polinices
- † Polinices triseriata
- † Polinices tuomeyi
† Polorthus
- † Polorthus tibialis
† Priscodelphinus
- † Priscodelphinus atropius
- † Priscodelphinus conradi
- † Priscodelphinus harlani – type locality for species
- † Priscodelphinus stenus
Pristis
- † Pristis amblodon
- † Pristis brachyodon
- † Pristis curvidens
† Prosynthetoceras
A living Protula polychaete worm
Protula
- † Protula vincentownensis
Psammechinus
- † Psammechinus cingulatus
Pseudoliva
Pteria – tentative report
- † Pteria annosa
† Pterosphenus
- † Pterosphenus schucherti – or unidentified comparable form
Fossilized skull of the Eocene sea turtle Puppigerus . The shell belongs to another kind of turtle.
† Puppigerus
- † Puppigerus grandaevus
Pycnodonte
- † Pycnodonte convexa
- † Pycnodonte dissimilaris
- † Pycnodonte percrassa
Pyrgocythara
- † Pyrgocythara plicosa
† Pyropsis

R

Raeta
- † Raeta plicatella
Ramphonotus
- † Ramphonotus laevis
Rangia
- † Rangia cuneata
Rangifer
† Recurvaster
- † Recurvaster mammillatus
† Rhetechelys
- † Rhetechelys platyops
Rhinoptera
† Rhizocrinus
- † Rhizocrinus cylindricus
Restoration of the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene ray Rhombodus
† Rhombodus
† Rhopostoma
- † Rhopostoma crucifer – type locality for species
† Rotularia
- † Rotularia rotula

S

Salenia
- † Salenia tumidula – type locality for species
Scalaria
- † Scalaria marylandica
- † Scalaria virginiana
Scalpellum
- † Scalpellum conradi
Shell of a Scaphella volute sea snail
Scaphella
- † Scaphella biconica
- † Scaphella intermedia
- † Scaphella parvula
- † Scaphella perelevata
- † Scaphella scaphoides
Scyliorhinus
- † Scyliorhinus gilberti
Seila
- † Seila adamsii
- † Seila clavulus
Semele
- † Semele burnsi
- † Semele johnsoni
† Septastrea
- † Septastrea marylandica
A living Serpula , or calcareous tubeworm
Serpula
- † Serpula habrogamma
- † Serpula howelli
- † Serpula jerseyensis
- † Serpula tristiata
Serpulorbis
- † Serpulorbis granifera
Sinum
- † Sinum fragile
- † Sinum perspectivum
Siphonalia
- † Siphonalia devexus
- † Siphonalia johnsoni
† Solarium
- † Solarium trilineatum
Solenosteira
- † Solenosteira cancellaria
Solidobalanus
† Solyma
- † Solyma elliptica
† Sphyraenodus
- † Sphyraenodus silovianus – type locality for species
- † Sphyraenodus speciosus
Sportella
- † Sportella whitfieldi
Life restoration of the Oligocene-Miocene shark-toothed dolphin Squalodon
† Squalodon – type locality for genus
- † Squalodon atlanticus – type locality for species
Squalus
- † Squalus minor
Squatina
† Stamenocella
- † Stamenocella cylindrica
Stellatoma
- † Stellatoma stellata
Stewartia
- † Stewartia anodonta
Stramonita
- † Stramonita haemostoma
Striarca
- † Striarca centenaria
Fossilized teeth of the Paleocene-Miocene sandshark Striatolamia
† Striatolamia
Strioterebrum
- † Strioterebrum dislocatum
Surculites
- † Surculites annosus
- † Surculites cadaverosus
† Surculoma – tentative report
- † Surculoma perobesa

T

Tagelus
- † Tagelus plebeius
† Taphrosphys
- † Taphrosphys sulcatus
† Tapiravus
- † Tapiravus validus
A living Tapirus , or tapir
Tapirus
Tectonatica
- † Tectonatica pusilla
Tellina
- † Tellina capillifera
- † Tellina declivis
- † Tellina peracuta
Tenagodus – tentative report
† Tenea
- † Tenea pinguis
Teredo
- † Teredo emacerata
Fossilized skeleton of the Oligocene-Miocene gavial relative Thecachampsa
† Thecachampsa
- † Thecachampsa antiqua
† Thoracosaurus
- † Thoracosaurus basifissus
- † Thoracosaurus basitruncatus
- † Thoracosaurus neocesariensis
Tibia
† Tornatellaea
- † Tornatellaea bella
- † Tornatellaea lata
† Trematofusus
- † Trematofusus venustus
† Tretosphys
- † Tretosphys grandaevus – type locality for species
- † Tretosphys lacertosus
- † Tretosphys uraeus – type locality for species
A living Trichechus , or manatee
Trichechus
Triphora
- † Triphora terebrata
† Tritonopsis
- † Tritonopsis ecclesiastica
Trochita
- † Trochita aperta
Trochocyathus
- † Trochocyathus conoides
† Trochosmilia – tentative report
- † Trochosmilia inauris
Turbonilla
- † Turbonilla interrupta
Turris – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- † Turris farmingdalensis
Turritella
- † Turritella aequistriata
- † Turritella cumberlandia
- † Turritella secta
- † Turritella vertebroides
Tylocidaris
- † Tylocidaris walcotti – type locality for species
A living Tympanuchus , or prairie chicken
Tympanuchus
- † Tympanuchus lulli – type locality for species

U

Urosalpinx
- A living Urosalpinx sea snail, or oyster drill
  † Urosalpinx cinerea

V

† Veleda
- † Veleda equilatera
Venericardia
- † Venericardia brittoni
- † Venericardia intermedia
- † Venericardia perantiqua
† Veniella
- † Veniella decisa
- † Veniella rhomboidea
Venus
- † Venus ducatellii
- † Venus submercenaria
† Viperecucullus – type locality for genus
- † Viperecucullus kuehnei – type locality for species
† Volutoderma
† Volutomorpha
- † Volutomorpha conradi

W

† Weltonia
- † Weltonia ancistrodon

X

Xenophora
- † Xenophora lapiferens
A living Xiphias , or swordfish
Xiphias
- † Xiphias antiquus
Xiphodolamia – type locality for genus
- † Xiphodolamia enis
- † Xiphodolamia ensis – type locality for species

Y

Yoldia
- † Yoldia laevis

Z

† Zanthopsis
- † Zanthopsis milleri
† Zarhachis
- † Zarhachis velox – type locality for species
A living Zygaena moth
† Zygaena
- † Zygaena prisca

References

Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database" . Retrieved 17 December 2021.

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List of the Cenozoic life of New Jersey

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