List of the Mesozoic life of Montana

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.

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• † Achelousaurus – type locality for genus
  • † Achelousaurus horneri – type locality for species

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  Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous dromaeosaurid ("raptor") Acheroraptor

  † Acheroraptor – type locality for genus
  • † Acheroraptor temertyorum – type locality for species
• Acipenser
  • † Acipenser eruciferus
• † Acristavus – type locality for genus
  • † Acristavus gagslarsoni – type locality for species
• † Acrostichopteris
  • † Acrostichopteris longipennis
• † Adiantites
  • † Adiantites montanensis
• † Adocus
• † Albanerpeton
  • † Albanerpeton nexuosus

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  Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous horned dinosaur Albertaceratops

  † Albertaceratops
  • † Albertaceratops nesmoi
• † Albertatherium
  • † Albertatherium primus
• † Albertosaurus
• † Allocrioceras
  • † Allocrioceras annulatum

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  Life restoration of the Late Jurassic theropod dinosaur Allosaurus

  † Allosaurus
• † Alostera
  • † Alostera saskatchewanensis
• † Alphadon
  • † Alphadon attaragos
  • † Alphadon halleyi – type locality for species
  • † Alphadon marshi
  • † Alphadon wilsoni
• † Altacreodus
  • † Altacreodus magnus
• † Alzadasaurus – tentative report
• † Alzadites – type locality for genus
  • † Alzadites alzadensis – type locality for species
• † Ambilestes
  • † Ambilestes cerberoides – or unidentified comparable form
• Amia
  • † Amia fragosa
  • † Amia uintaensis
• † Amphicoelias
• † Anatotitan
  • † Anatotitan copei
• † Anchura – tentative report

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  Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous armored dinosaur Ankylosaurus

  † Ankylosaurus – type locality for genus
  • † Ankylosaurus magniventris – type locality for species
• † Anomozamites
• † Aquiladelphis
  • † Aquiladelphis incus
  • † Aquiladelphis minor
• † Aquilapollenites
  • † Aquilapollenites collaris
  • † Aquilapollenites conatus
  • † Aquilapollenites marmarthensis
  • † Aquilapollenites mtchedlishvilii
  • † Aquilapollenites quadrilobus
  • † Aquilapollenites turbidus

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  Life restoration of the Early Cretaceous primitive horned dinosaur Aquilops

  † Aquilops – type locality for genus
  • † Aquilops americanus – type locality for species
• Aralia – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Aralia wellingtonia
• † Araliaephyllum
  • † Araliaephyllum westonii
• † Araliopsoides
  • † Araliopsoides cretacea – or unidentified comparable form
• † Araucarites
  • † Araucarites longifolia
• † Arcellites
• † Archaeolamna
  • † Archaeolamna kopingensis
• † Archaeotriakis – type locality for genus
  • † Archaeotriakis rochelleae – type locality for species

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  Fossilized shells of the Middle Jurassic ammonoid cephalopod Arcticoceras

  † Arcticoceras – tentative report
• † Arctocephalites
  • † Arctocephalites gracilis – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Arctocephalites maculatus – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Arctocephalites platynotus – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Arctocephalites sawtoothensis
  • † Arctocephalites saypoensis
• † Argaliatherium – type locality for genus
  • † Argaliatherium robustum – type locality for species
• † Ariadnaesporites
  • † Ariadnaesporites fluviatilis – type locality for species
• † Ascarinites – type locality for genus
  • † Ascarinites communis – type locality for species
• † Aspideretoides
• † Aspidophyllum – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Aspidophyllum trilobatum
• † Asplenium

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  Shell of a modern Astarte bivalve

  Astarte
  • † Astarte meeki
  • † Astarte morion
  • † Astarte packardi – or unidentified comparable form
• † Athrotaxites
  • † Athrotaxites berryi – or unidentified comparable form
• † Aublysodon
  • † Aublysodon mirandus
• † Austrotindaria
  • † Austrotindaria canalensis
  • † Austrotindaria svalbardensis
• † Avaceratops – type locality for genus
  • † Avaceratops lammersi – type locality for species
• Avicula

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  Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous toothed bird Avisaurus with prey

  † Avisaurus – type locality for genus
  • † Avisaurus archibaldi – type locality for species
  • † Avisaurus gloriae – type locality for species
• † Axestemys
  • † Axestemys splendida – type locality for species
• Azolla
  • † Azolla barbata
  • † Azolla circinata – type locality for species
  • † Azolla distincta
  • † Azolla simplex – type locality for species
  • † Azolla spinata – type locality for species
• † Azollopsis – type locality for genus
  • † Azollopsis coccoides – type locality for species
  • † Azollopsis tomentosa – type locality for species

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• † Baculatisporites

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  Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Baculites

  † Baculites
  • † Baculites asper
  • † Baculites codyensis
  • † Baculites compressus
  • † Baculites mariasensis
• † Baena
  • † Baena callosa – type locality for species
• † Baioconodon
  • † Baioconodon nordicus – or unidentified comparable form
• † Bakevellia

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  Diagram of the known fossil material of the Late Cretaceous dromaeosaurid ("raptor") Bambiraptor

  † Bambiraptor – type locality for genus
  • † Bambiraptor feinbergi – type locality for species
• Barbourula – or unidentified comparable form
• † Basilemys
  • † Basilemys sinuosa – type locality for species
• † Batodon
  • † Batodon tenuis
• † Belfria – type locality for genus
  • † Belfria microphylla – type locality for species

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  Fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous bony fish Belonostomus

  † Belonostomus
  • † Belonostomus longirostris
• † Bernissartia
• † Biretisporites
  • † Biretisporites deltoideus
• † Borealosuchus
  • † Borealosuchus sternbergii
• † Boremys
  • † Boremys pulchra
• † Borissiakoceras
  • † Borissiakoceras orbiculatum
• Brachaelurus
  • † Brachaelurus estesi
• † Brachyceratops – type locality for genus
  • † Brachyceratops montanensis – type locality for species
• † Brachychampsa – type locality for genus
  • † Brachychampsa montana – type locality for species
  • † Brachychampsa montanus

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  Fossilized natural mummy of the Late Cretaceous duck-billed dinosaur Brachylophosaurus

  † Brachylophosaurus
  • † Brachylophosaurus canadensis – type locality for species
• † Buccinammonites – type locality for genus
  • † Buccinammonites minimus – type locality for species

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  Life restoration of a herd of the Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur Camarasaurus

  † Camarasaurus
• Campeloma
• † Camptonectes
  • † Camptonectes platessiformis
  • † Camptonectes stygius
• Carcharias
• † Cardiaster
  • † Cardiaster curtus
• † Carinalestes – type locality for genus
  • † Carinalestes murensis – type locality for species
• † Cedrobaena
  • † Cedrobaena brinkman
• † Celastrophyllum – or unidentified comparable form

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  Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous horned dinosaur Centrosaurus

  † Centrosaurus
• † Cerasinops – type locality for genus
  • † Cerasinops hodgskissi – type locality for species
• † Ceratodus
  • † Ceratodus frazieri
  • † Ceratodus guentheri – or unidentified comparable form
• † Ceratops – type locality for genus
  • † Ceratops montanus – type locality for species
• † Cerberophis – type locality for genus
  • † Cerberophis robustus – type locality for species
• † Cercomya
  • † Cercomya punctata
• † Chamops
  • † Chamops segnis
• † Champsosaurus
  • † Champsosaurus natator

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  Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous horned dinosaur Chasmosaurus

  † Chasmosaurus – or unidentified comparable form
• Chiloscyllium
  • † Chiloscyllium missouriensis – type locality for species
• † Chirostenotes
  • † Chirostenotes elegans
• Chlamys
• † Chondroceras
  • † Chondroceras allani – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Chondroceras oblatum
• † Cimexomys
  • † Cimexomys minor
• † Cimolestes
  • † Cimolestes incisus
  • † Cimolestes stirtoni
• † Cimoliasaurus
• † Cimolodon
  • † Cimolodon nitidus

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  Life restoration of the face of the Late Cretaceous multituberculate mammal Cimolomys

  † Cimolomys
  • † Cimolomys clarki – type locality for species
  • † Cimolomys gracilis
• † Cimolopteryx
  • † Cimolopteryx maxima
• † Cinnamomoides
• Cladophlebis
  • † Cladophlebis alberta
  • † Cladophlebis constricta
  • † Cladophlebis heterophylla
  • † Cladophlebis inclinata
  • † Cladophlebis oblongifolia
  • † Cladophlebis oerstedi
  • † Cladophlebis virginiensis
• † Claosaurus
• † Claraia
  • † Claraia aurita
  • † Claraia clarai
  • † Claraia mulleri
  • † Claraia stachei

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  Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaurid Clidastes

  † Clidastes
• † Clioscaphites
  • † Clioscaphites vermiformis
• † Cobbanites
• † Coelostylina
• † Colpodontosaurus
  • † Colpodontosaurus cracens
• † Componocancer
  • † Componocancer roberti
• † Compsemys
  • † Compsemys victa
• † Coniophis
  • † Coniophis precedens
• † Coniopteris
  • † Coniopteris bella – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Coniopteris hymenophylloides
  • † Coniopteris simplex
• † Continuoolithus
  • † Continuoolithus canadensis
• † Contogenys – type locality for genus
  • † Contogenys sloani – type locality for species
• † Coriops
  • † Coriops amnicolus
• † Corviconodon
  • † Corviconodon montanensis – type locality for species

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  Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous duck-billed dinosaur Corythosaurus

  † Corythosaurus
  • † Corythosaurus casuarius
• Crassatella
• † Cremnoceramus
  • † Cremnoceramus deformis
• † Cretolamna
  • † Cretolamna appendiculata
• † Cretorectolobus – type locality for genus
  • † Cretorectolobus olsoni – type locality for species
• † Crocodilus
  • † Crocodilus humilis
• † Cryptometoicoceras
  • † Cryptometoicoceras mite
• Cucullaea
  • † Cucullaea haguei
  • † Cucullaea rockymontana
• † Cyathidites
  • † Cyathidites minor
• † Cycadolepis
• † Cycadopites
  • † Cycadopites fragilis
• † Cyclurus
  • † Cyclurus fragosus

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• † Daspletosaurus
  • † Daspletosaurus horneri – type locality for species
• † Deinodon – type locality for genus
  • † Deinodon horridus – type locality for species

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  Life restoration of the Early Cretaceous dromaeosaur ("raptor") Deinonychus

  † Deinonychus – type locality for genus
  • † Deinonychus antirrhopus – type locality for species
• † Deinosuchus – type locality for genus
  • † Deinosuchus rugosus – type locality for species
• † Deltoidospora
  • † Deltoidospora cascadensis – type locality for species
  • † Deltoidospora diaphana
  • † Deltoidospora hallii – type locality for species
• Dentalium
• † Derrisemys
  • † Derrisemys sterea
• † Diclonius
• † Dictyothykalos

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  Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous marsupial relative Didelphodon

  † Didelphodon
  • † Didelphodon vorax
• † Didymoceras
  • † Didymoceras cheyennense
  • † Didymoceras nebrascense
  • † Didymoceras stevensoni
• † Diettertia
  • † Diettertia montanensis

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  Life restoration of the Late Jurassic long-necked dinosaur Diplodocus

  † Diplodocus
• † Doratodon – or unidentified comparable form
• † Dromaeosaurus
  • † Dromaeosaurus albertensis
• † Dryophyllum – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
  • † Dryophyllum subfalcatum
• † Dunveganoceras
  • † Dunveganoceras albertense
  • † Dunveganoceras parvum – type locality for species
  • † Dunveganoceras pondi
• † Dyadonapites
  • † Dyadonapites reticulatus

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  Illustration of the fossilized pelvis and tail of the Late Cretaceous armored dinosaur Dyoplosaurus

  † Dyoplosaurus
  • † Dyoplosaurus acutosquameus

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• † Echinatisporis
• † Ectocentrocristus
  • † Ectocentrocristus foxi – type locality for species
• † Ectoconodon
  • † Ectoconodon montanensis – type locality for species
• † Edgarosaurus
  • † Edgarosaurus muddi
• † Edmontonia
  • † Edmontonia longiceps
  • † Edmontonia rugosidens – type locality for species
• † Edmontosaurus

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    Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens

    † Edmontosaurus annectens
• † Einiosaurus – type locality for genus
  • † Einiosaurus procurvicornis – type locality for species
• † Elasmodus
  • † Elasmodus greenoughi – or unidentified comparable form
• † Emarginachelys – type locality for genus
  • † Emarginachelys cretacea – type locality for species
• † Entolioides
  • † Entolioides utahensis
• † Eodelphis
• † Eopelobates – or unidentified comparable form

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  A living Equisetum , or horsetail

  † Equisetum
  • † Equisetum cascadensis – type locality for species
  • † Equisetum laterale
  • † Equisetum montanensis
• † Erdtmanipollis
  • † Erdtmanipollis procumbentiformis
• † Essonodon – type locality for genus
  • † Essonodon browni – type locality for species
• † Eubaena
  • † Eubaena cephalica
• † Eucrossorhinus
  • † Eucrossorhinus microcuspidatus – type locality for species
• † Eumorphotis
  • † Eumorphotis amplicostata – type locality for species
  • † Eumorphotis ericius – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Eumorphotis multiformis
• † Euomphaloceras
  • † Euomphaloceras septemseriatum

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  Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous armored dinosaur Euoplocephalus

  † Euoplocephalus
  • † Euoplocephalus tutus
• † Eutrephoceras
  • † Eutrephoceras montanensis – type locality for species
• † Exiteloceras
  • † Exiteloceras jenneyi
• † Exogyra
  • † Exogyra columbella
• † Exostinus
  • † Exostinus lancensis

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• † Falepetrus
  • † Falepetrus barwini
• Ficus – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Ficus ovatifolia
• † Fletcherithyris – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
  • † Fletcherithyris margaritovi
• † Foraminisporis
  • † Foraminisporis undulates

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• † Gastopoda
• † Gervillia
  • † Gervillia ussurica – or unidentified comparable form
• † Gilmoremys
  • † Gilmoremys lancensis

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  Fossilized leaf of the Permian-modern tree Ginkgo

  Ginkgo
  • † Ginkgo pluripartita
• † Ginkgoites
  • † Ginkgoites cascadensis
  • † Ginkgoites pluripartita
• † Glasbius
  • † Glasbius twitchelli – type locality for species
• † Glishades – type locality for genus
  • † Glishades ericksoni – type locality for species
• † Glyptops
  • † Glyptops pervicax – type locality for species
• Glyptostrobus – or unidentified comparable form

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  Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Middle Jurassic-Late Cretaceous mammal Gobiconodon

  † Gobiconodon – type locality for genus
  • † Gobiconodon ostromi – type locality for species
• † Goniobasis
  • † Goniobasis subtortuosa
• † Gorgosaurus
  • † Gorgosaurus libratus – type locality for species
• † Grammatodon
• † Grewipollenites
  • † Grewipollenites radiatus

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  Interior and exterior of a fossilized shell of the Late Triassic-Eocene marine bivalve Gryphaea

  † Gryphaea
  • † Gryphaea – type locality for species – informal
  • † Gryphaea impressimarginata
• † Gryposaurus
  • † Gryposaurus latidens – type locality for species
  • † Gryposaurus notabilis
• † Gypsonictops
  • † Gypsonictops hypoconus
  • † Gypsonictops illuminatus
  • † Gypsonictops lewisi – type locality for species
• Gyrodes
  • † Gyrodes conradi

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• † Habrosaurus
  • † Habrosaurus dilatus
• † Hadrosaurus
  • † Hadrosaurus breviceps – type locality for species
  • † Hadrosaurus paucidens – type locality for species
• † Hamites
  • † Hamites cimarronensis
• † Haptosphenus
  • † Haptosphenus placodon
• † Hausmannia
  • † Hausmannia fisheri
  • † Hausmannia montanensis
• † Helopanoplia
  • † Helopanoplia distincta

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  Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous toothed bird Hesperornis

  † Hesperornis
  • † Hesperornis montana – type locality for species
• † Heteropecten – tentative report
• † Holocrinus
• † Hoploscaphites ^[1]
  • † Hoploscaphites macer – type locality for species ^[1]
• † Hummelichelys
  • † Hummelichelys beecheri
  • † Hummelichelys foveatus – type locality for species
• † Hybodus
  • † Hybodus montanensis – type locality for species
  • † Hybodus storeri – type locality for species
• † Hypacrosaurus
  • † Hypacrosaurus stebingeri – type locality for species
• † Hypotodus
  • † Hypotodus grandis – type locality for species

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• † Idiohamites
  • † Idiohamites bispinosus – type locality for species
  • † Idiohamites pulchellus – type locality for species

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  Fossilized shell of the Early Jurassic-Late Cretaceous marine bivalve Inoceramus with a human indicating its size

  † Inoceramus
  • † Inoceramus arnoldi
  • † Inoceramus canaliculatus
  • † Inoceramus cancellatus
  • † Inoceramus cardissoides - or unidentified loosely related form
  • † Inoceramus cordiformis – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Inoceramus erectus
  • † Inoceramus fragilis – or unidentified related form
  • † Inoceramus frechi – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Inoceramus gibbosus
  • † Inoceramus gilli – type locality for species
  • † Inoceramus glacierensis – type locality for species
  • † Inoceramus koeneni
  • † Inoceramus latisulcatus – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Inoceramus lesginensis
  • † Inoceramus lingua – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Inoceramus lundbreckensis
  • † Inoceramus sokolovi – type locality for species
  • † Inoceramus undabundus
  • † Inoceramus walterdorfensis
• † Iqualadelphis
  • † Iqualadelphis lactea

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  Fossilized skeleton of the Middle Jurassic-Miocene Chimaera relative Ischyodus

  † Ischyodus
  • † Ischyodus bifurcatus
• † Ischyrhiza
  • † Ischyrhiza avonicola
  • † Ischyrhiza mira
• † Isocyprina – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Isocyprina iddingsi

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  Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous horned dinosaur Judiceratops

  † Judiceratops – type locality for genus
  • † Judiceratops tigris – type locality for species
• † Judithemys
  • † Judithemys backmani

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• † Kastanoceras – type locality for genus
  • † Kastanoceras spiniger – type locality for species
• † Klukia
  • † Klukia canadensis

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  Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous duck-billed dinosaur Kritosaurus

  † Kritosaurus
  • † Kritosaurus breviceps – or unidentified comparable form
• † Krokolithes

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• † Labrodioctes – type locality for genus
  • † Labrodioctes montanensis – type locality for species
• † Laevigatosporites
  • † Laevigatosporites haardtii

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  Fossilized skeleton of the Early Jurassic-Late Cretaceous bony fish Lepidotes

  † 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

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  Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous primitive horned dinosaur Leptoceratops

  † 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

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  Fossilized shell of the Triassic-modern marine bivalve Lopha

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• † Lucina
• Lunatia
  • † Lunatia dakotensis – or unidentified comparable form
• † Lygobius – type locality for genus
  • † Lygobius knowltoni – type locality for species

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• † Magadiceramus
  • † Magadiceramus soukupi
• † Magnuviator – type locality for genus
  • † Magnuviator ovimonsensis – type locality for species
• † Maiasaura – type locality for genus
  • † Maiasaura peeblesorum – type locality for species
• † Marchantiolites
  • † Marchantiolites blairmorensis
• † Marmarthia
  • † Marmarthia trivialis
• † Medusaceratops – type locality for genus
  • † Medusaceratops lokii – type locality for species
• † Meleagrinella
  • † Meleagrinella curta
• † Melvius – type locality for genus
  • † Melvius thomasi – type locality for species
• † Meniscoessus
  • † Meniscoessus major
  • † Meniscoessus robustus – type locality for species
• † Meniscognathus
  • † Meniscognathus altmani

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  Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous horned dinosaur Mercuriceratops

  † Mercuriceratops – type locality for genus
  • † Mercuriceratops gemini – type locality for species
• † Mesodma
  • † Mesodma formosa
  • † Mesodma hensleighi
  • † Mesodma primaeva
  • † Mesodma thompsoni
• † Metoicoceras
  • † Metoicoceras geslinianum
  • † Metoicoceras mosbyense – type locality for species
  • † Metoicoceras muelleri
• † Metzgeriites
  • † Metzgeriites montanensis – type locality for species
• † Micrabacia
  • † Micrabacia radiata
• † Microsulcatoceras – type locality for genus
  • † Microsulcatoceras puzosiiforme – type locality for species

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  Life restoration of the Early Cretaceous oviraptorosaur Microvenator

  † Microvenator – type locality for genus
  • † Microvenator celer – type locality for species
• † Minerisporites
  • † Minerisporites pseudorichardsonii
• † Miocidaris
• † Modiolus
  • † Modiolus rosii
• † Monoclonius – type locality for genus
  • † Monoclonius crassus – type locality for species
  • † Monoclonius recurvicornis – type locality for species
  • † Monoclonius sphenocerus – type locality for species
• † Monosulcites
  • † Monosulcites riparius
• † Montanalestes
  • † Montanalestes keeblerorum

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  Mounted fossilized skeletons of the Late Cretaceous pterosaur Montanazhdarcho

  † Montanazhdarcho – type locality for genus
  • † Montanazhdarcho minor – type locality for species
• † Montania – type locality for genus
  • † Montania glandulosa – type locality for species
• † Montanoceratops
  • † Montanoceratops cerorhynchus – type locality for species
• † Montanoolithus – type locality for genus
  • † Montanoolithus strongorum – type locality for species
• † Moremanoceras
  • † Moremanoceras costatum
  • † Moremanoceras montanaense – type locality for species
  • † Moremanoceras straini
• † Mosasaurus
  • † Mosasaurus missouriensis
• † Myalina
  • † Myalina postcarbonica
• † Myledaphus
  • † Myledaphus bipartitus

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  Shells washed ashore of Mytilus mussels

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• † Nannometoicoceras
  • † Nannometoicoceras nanos – type locality for species

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  Fossilized skull of the Late Cretaceous tyrannosaur Nanotyrannus , possibly a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rather than a distinct genus

  † Nanotyrannus
  • † Nanotyrannus lancensis – type locality for species
• † Naomichelys – type locality for genus
  • † Naomichelys speciosa – type locality for species
• † Necrocarcinus
• † Nelumbo
  • † Nelumbo peltata – type locality for species
• † Neocardioceras
  • † Neocardioceras juddii
  • † Neocardioceras minutum
• † Neogastroplites
  • † Neogastroplites haasi
• † Neoplagiaulax
  • † Neoplagiaulax burgessi – type locality for species
• † Neoschizodus
• † Neurankylus – type locality for genus
  • † Neurankylus eximius – type locality for species
• † Nezpercius – type locality for genus
  • † Nezpercius dodsoni – type locality for species
• † Nidimys – type locality for genus
  • † Nidimys occultus – type locality for species
• † Nilsonia
  • † Nilsonia compta – or unidentified comparable form
• † Normannites – tentative report
  • † Normannites crickmayi – or unidentified comparable form
• † Nortedelphys – type locality for genus
  • † Nortedelphys jasoni – type locality for species
  • † Nortedelphys minimus – type locality for species

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  Fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous-Eocene bony fish Notogoneus

  † Notogoneus
  • † Notogoneus montananesis – type locality for species
  • † Notogoneus montenensis – type locality for species
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• † Obamadon – type locality for genus
  • † Obamadon gracilis – type locality for species
• † Odaxosaurus
  • † Odaxosaurus piger
• Odontaspis
  • † Odontaspis sanguinei – type locality for species
• † Oklatheridium
  • † Oklatheridium wiblei – type locality for species
• † Onchosaurus
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  Fossilized partial cranium of the Late Cretaceous armored dinosaur Oohkotokia

  † Oohkotokia – type locality for genus
  • † Oohkotokia horneri – type locality for species
• † Ophioglypha
  • † Ophioglypha bridgerensis
• † Ophiomorpha
• † Opisthotriton
  • † Opisthotriton kayi
• † Orbicoelia
• † Ornithomimus
  • † Ornithomimus grandis – type locality for species
  • † Ornithomimus tenuis – type locality for species
• † Orodromeus – type locality for genus
  • † Orodromeus makelai – type locality for species

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  Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous herbivorous dinosaur Oryctodromeus in a burrow

  † Oryctodromeus – type locality for genus
  • † Oryctodromeus cubicularis – type locality for species
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• † Oxybeloceras
  • † Oxybeloceras crassum
• † Oxytoma
  • † Oxytoma mclearni

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  Life restoration of subadults of the Late Cretaceous dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus butting heads

  † Pachycephalosaurus – type locality for genus
  • † Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis – type locality for species
• † Pagiophyllum
• † Palaeobatrachus
  • † Palaeobatrachus occidentalis
• † Palaeolabrus
  • † Palaeolabrus montanensis
• † Palaeosaniwa
  • † Palaeosaniwa canadensis
• † Palaeoscincus – type locality for genus
  • † Palaeoscincus costatus – type locality for species
• † Palatobaena
  • † Palatobaena bairdi
• † Paleopsephurus – type locality for genus
  • † Paleopsephurus wilsoni – type locality for species
• † Paleoungulatum – type locality for genus
  • † Paleoungulatum hooleyi – type locality for species

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  Illustration of a fossilized skull of the Late Cretaceous armored dinosaur Panoplosaurus

  † Panoplosaurus
• † Pappotherium
  • † Pappotherium pattersoni
• † Parachondroceras
  • † Parachondroceras andrewsi
  • † Parachondroceras filicostatum
• † Paracimexomys
  • † Paracimexomys judithae – type locality for species
  • † Paracimexomys magnus – type locality for species
  • † Paracimexomys priscus
  • † Paracimexomys propriscus – type locality for species
  • † Paracimexomys robisoni – or unidentified comparable form
• † Paraderma
  • † Paraderma bogerti
• † Paralbula
  • † Paralbula casei
• † Paramacellodus – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Paramacellodus keebleri – type locality for species
• † Paranecturus – type locality for genus
  • † Paranecturus garbanii – type locality for species
• † Paranyctoides
  • † Paranyctoides maleficus

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  Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Parapuzosia with a human indicating its size

  † Parapuzosia
  • † Parapuzosia bradyi – type locality for species
• † Parasaniwa
  • † Parasaniwa wyomingensis
• † Parataxodium
• † Parazolla – type locality for genus
  • † Parazolla heterotricha – type locality for species
• † Parazollopsis – type locality for genus
  • † Parazollopsis cascadensis – type locality for species
• † Paronychodon
  • † Paronychodon lacustris

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  Micrograph of a fossilized tooth of the Late Cretaceous troodontid Pectinodon

  † Pectinodon – or unidentified comparable form
• † Pediomys
  • † Pediomys elegans
• † Peneteius – type locality for genus
  • † Peneteius aquilonius – type locality for species
• † Penetetrapites
  • † Penetetrapites inconspicuous
• † Pentacrinus
  • † Pentacrinus asteriscus
• † Permophorus
  • † Permophorus triassicus
• † Phelopteria
• Pholadomya
  • † Pholadomya inaequiplicatus
  • † Pholadomya kingi

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  Shells in differing orientations of Physa freshwater bladder snails

  Physa
  • † Physa copei – or unidentified comparable form
• † Piceoerpeton
  • † Piceoerpeton naylori – type locality for species
• † Piksi – type locality for genus
  • † Piksi barbarulna – type locality for species
• † Pinna
  • † Pinna kingi
• † Pistia
  • † Pistia corrugata
• † Pityocladus
• † Pityophyllum
  • † Pityophyllum lindstromi
• † Pityosporites
  • † Pityosporites constrictus
• † Placunopsis
• † Plastomenus
  • † Plastomenus costatus
• † Platacodon
  • † Platacodon nanus
• † Platanophyllum
• † Plesiacanthoceras
  • † Plesiacanthoceras wyomingense
• † Plesiacanthoceratoides
  • † Plesiacanthoceratoides alzadense
• † Plesiobaena
  • † Plesiobaena antiqua
• † Pleuromya
  • † Pleuromya oblongata – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Pleuromya subcompressa
• † Pleuronautilus
• † Pleuronectites – tentative report
• † Plicatolamna
  • † Plicatolamna arcuata
• † Podozamites
  • † Podozamites lanceolatus
• † Polycingulatisporites
  • † Polycingulatisporites reduncus

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  Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous primitive horned dinosaur Prenoceratops

  † Prenoceratops – type locality for genus
  • † Prenoceratops pieganensis – type locality for species
• † Prismatoolithus
  • † Prismatoolithus hirschi – type locality for species
  • † Prismatoolithus levis
• † Pristinuspollenites
  • † Pristinuspollenites microsaccus
• † Proamphiuma
  • † Proamphiuma cretacea
• † Procerberus
• † Prodesmodon
  • † Prodesmodon copei
• † Promyalina
  • † Promyalina spathi – type locality for species

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  Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous duck-billed dinosaur Prosaurolophus

  † Prosaurolophus
  • † Prosaurolophus blackfeetensis – type locality for species
• † Protalphadon
  • † Protalphadon foxi – type locality for species
  • † Protalphadon lulli
• † Protexanites
• † Protocaiman
• † Protocardia
  • † Protocardia schucherti
• † Protolambda ^[2]
  • † Protolambda mcgilli – type locality for species ^[3]
  • †? Protolambda clemensi – type locality for species
  • † Protolambda florencae
  • † Protolambda hatcheri
• † Protolamna
  • † Protolamna sokolovi
• † Protophyllocladus
  • † Protophyllocladus subintegrifolius
• † Protophyllum – or unidentified comparable form
• † Protoplatyrhina – type locality for genus
  • † Protoplatyrhina renae – type locality for species
• † Protoscaphirhynchus – type locality for genus
  • † Protoscaphirhynchus squamosus – type locality for species

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  Fossilized mandible of the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene mammal Protungulatum

  † Protungulatum
  • † Protungulatum coombsi – type locality for species
  • † Protungulatum gorgun
• † Psammorhynchus
  • † Psammorhynchus longipinnis – type locality for species
• † Pseudocycas
  • † Pseudocycas douglasii – type locality for species
• † Pseudohypolophus
• † Pseudomelania
  • † Pseudomelania hendricksoni
• † Pteria – tentative report
  • † Pteria ussurica – or unidentified comparable form
• † Pteropelyx – type locality for genus
  • † Pteropelyx grallipes – type locality for species
• † Ptychotrygon
  • † Ptychotrygon blainensis – type locality for species
  • † Ptychotrygon hooveri
  • † Ptychotrygon triangularis

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• † Quenstedtia – tentative report
• Quercus – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
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  Life restoration of a flock of the Late Cretaceous pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus feeding on the ground

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• † Retinovena – type locality for genus
  • † Retinovena fluvialis – type locality for species
• † Retitricolpites
  • † Retitricolpites microreticulatus
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• † Rhaeboceras
  • † Rhaeboceras burkholderi – type locality for species
  • † Rhaeboceras cedarense – type locality for species
  • † Rhaeboceras coloradoense
  • † Rhaeboceras halli
  • † Rhaeboceras subglobosum
• † Rhamnus – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
  • † Rhamnus cleburni
• † Richardoestesia
  • † Richardoestesia gilmorei
  • † Richardoestesia isosceles
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  Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous horned dinosaur Rubeosaurus

  † Rubeosaurus
  • † Rubeosaurus ovatus – type locality for species
• † Rugocaudia – type locality for genus
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• † Sagenopteris
  • † Sagenopteris elliptica
  • † Sagenopteris mclearni
  • † Sagenopteris williamsii

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  Life restoration of the Early Cretaceous armored dinosaurs Sauropelta

  † Sauropelta – type locality for genus
  • † Sauropelta edwardsorum – type locality for species
• † Saurornitholestes
  • † Saurornitholestes langstoni
• † Scabrastephanocolpites
  • † Scabrastephanocolpites lepidus
• † Scapherpeton
  • † Scapherpeton tectum
• † Scaphites
  • † Scaphites impendicostatus
  • † Scaphites mariasensis
  • † Scaphites preventricosus
  • † Scaphites ventricosus
• † Scaphotrigonia
  • † Scaphotrigonia naviformis
• † Schizolepis
• † Schizosporis
  • † Schizosporis laevigatus
• † Sciponoceras
  • † Sciponoceras gracile
• † Scollardius
  • † Scollardius propalaeoryctes

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  Fossilized cranium in multiple views of the Late Cretaceous armored dinosaur Scolosaurus

  † Scolosaurus
  • † Scolosaurus cutleri
• † Scotiophryne – type locality for genus
  • † Scotiophryne pustulosa – type locality for species
• † Sequoia
• † Siberiapollis
  • † Siberiapollis montanensis
• † Sohlites
  • † Sohlites spinosus
• † Solenoceras
  • † Solenoceras bearpawense
• † Spalacotheridium
  • † Spalacotheridium mckennai
• Sphaerium
  • † Sphaerium planum
• † Sphaerotholus
  • † Sphaerotholus buchholtzae – type locality for species
• † Sphenopteris
  • † Sphenopteris brulensis
  • † Sphenopteris geopperti
  • † Sphenopteris goepperti
  • † Sphenopteris latiloba
  • † Sphenopteris mclearni
• † Spheroolithus
  • † Spheroolithus albertensis
  • † Spheroolithus choteauensis – type locality for species
  • † Spheroolithus maiasauroides

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  Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous horned dinosaur Spiclypeus

  † Spiclypeus – type locality for genus
  • † Spiclypeus shipporum – type locality for species
• † Spiriferina – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
• † Sporonites
  • † Sporonites montanensis – type locality for species
• Squalicorax
  • † Squalicorax kaupi
  • † Squalicorax pristodontus
• † Squatirhina
  • † Squatirhina americana
• † Stantoniella – type locality for genus
  • † Stantoniella cretacea – type locality for species
• † Stegoceras
  • † Stegoceras validum

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  Restoration of the Late Jurassic stegosaur Stegosaurus

  † Stegosaurus
• † Stemmatoceras
  • † Stemmatoceras albertense – or unidentified related form
  • † Stemmatoceras arcicostum
  • † Stemmatoceras palliseri – or unidentified related form
• † Stygiochelys – type locality for genus
  • † Stygiochelys estesi – type locality for species
• † Sumitomoceras
• † Suuwassea – type locality for genus
  • † Suuwassea emilieae – type locality for species
• † Symmetrodontoides
  • † Symmetrodontoides canadensis
• † Synechodus
  • † Synechodus andersoni – type locality for species
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• † Tancredia
  • † Tancredia inornata – or unidentified comparable form
• † Tarrantoceras
  • † Tarrantoceras cuspidum
• † Tatankacephalus – type locality for genus
  • † Tatankacephalus cooneyorum – type locality for species
• † Taxodiaceaepollenites
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  Life restoration of the Early Cretaceous Iguanodon relative Tenontosaurus

  † Tenontosaurus – type locality for genus
  • † Tenontosaurus tilletti – type locality for species
• † Terminonaris – type locality for genus
  • † Terminonaris browni – type locality for species
  • † Terminonaris robusta – type locality for species
• † Thalassomedon – type locality for genus
  • † Thalassomedon hanningtoni – type locality for species
• † Thescelosaurus
  • † Thescelosaurus garbanii – type locality for species
  • † Thescelosaurus neglectus
• † Thescelus
  • † Thescelus insiliens
• † Thlaeodon – tentative report
• † Todisporites
  • † Todisporites dubius – or unidentified comparable form
• † Toxolophosaurus – type locality for genus
  • † Toxolophosaurus cloudi – type locality for species
• † Trachodon – type locality for genus
  • † Trachodon altidens
  • † Trachodon marginatus
  • † Trachodon mirabilis – type locality for species
• † Trachytriton
  • † Trachytriton – type locality for species – informal

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  Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous horned dinosaur Triceratops

  † Triceratops
  • † Triceratops horridus
  • † Triceratops maximus – type locality for species
  • † Triceratops prorsus
• † Trigonia
  • † Trigonia conradi – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Trigonia montanaensis
  • † Trigonia trafalgarensis – or unidentified comparable form
• † Trigonocallista
  • † Trigonocallista orbiculata
• Trionyx
• † Triprismatoolithus – type locality for genus
  • † Triprismatoolithus stephensi – type locality for species
• † Trochicola
  • † Trochicola scollardiana
• † Trochodendroides

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  Illustration of fossilized teeth of the Late Cretaceous Troodon

  † Troodon – type locality for genus
  • † Troodon formosus – type locality for species
• † Tubercuoolithus – type locality for genus
  • † Tubercuoolithus tetonensis – type locality for species
• † Tubulifloridites
  • † Tubulifloridites aedicula
• † Tullochelys
  • † Tullochelys montana
• † Turgidodon
  • † Turgidodon praesagus
  • † Turgidodon rhaister
  • † Turgidodon russelli
• Turritella
• † Tylosaurus
  • † Tylosaurus proriger

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  Fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous tyrannosaur Tyrannosaurus

  † Tyrannosaurus – type locality for genus
  • † Tyrannosaurus rex – type locality for species

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• † Ugrosaurus – type locality for genus
  • † Ugrosaurus olsoni – type locality for species
• Unio
• † Unionites
  • † Unionites fassaensis

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• † Valenopsalis
  • † Valenopsalis joyneri
• Valvata – tentative report
  • † Valvata montanensis
• † Varalphadon
  • † Varalphadon wahweapensis
• † Veniella
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  • † Volviceramus exogyroides
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• † Weediaphyllum – type locality for genus
  • † Weediaphyllum parkensis – type locality for species
• † Weltrichia
• † Wodehousia
  • † Wodehousia spinata
• † Woodwardia – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
  • † Woodwardia crenata

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  • † Yezoites delicatulus

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  Fossil of the Early Triassic-Eocene cycad-like frond Zamites

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  • † Zamites arcticus
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• † Zephyrosaurus – type locality for genus
  • † Zephyrosaurus schaffi – type locality for species
• † Zlivisporis
  • † Zlivisporis cenomanianus
• † Zygastrocarcinus
  • † Zygastrocarcinus waagei

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3. Thomas S. Kelly (2014). "Preliminary report on the mammals from Lane's Little Jaw Site Quarry: a latest Cretaceous (earliest Puercan?) local fauna, Hell Creek Formation, southeastern Montana" (PDF). Paludicola. 10 (1): 50–91.

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