List of the Mesozoic life of Nevada

Last updated July 16, 2024

This list of the Mesozoic life of Nevada contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Nevada and are between 252.17 and 66 million years of age.

A

† Acrochordiceras – type locality for genus
- † Acrochordiceras carolinae
- † Acrochordiceras hatschekii
- † Acrochordiceras hyatti – type locality for species
Fossilized teeth of the Permian-Paleocene cartilaginous fish Acrodus
† Acrodus
- † Acrodus alexandrae – type locality for species
- † Acrodus cuneocostatus – type locality for species
- † Acrodus oreodontus – type locality for species
- † Acrodus spitzbergensis
- † Acrodus vermicularis – or unidentified comparable form
† Acuminatella
- † Acuminatella acuminata
- † Acuminatella angusta
† Acutomeekoceras – type locality for genus
- † Acutomeekoceras rieberi – type locality for species
Fossilized shell of the Early Cretaceous-Oligocene turtle Adocus
† Adocus – or unidentified comparable form
† Agerchlamys
- † Agerchlamys boellingi – type locality for species
† Alanites
- † Alanites costatus – type locality for species
- † Alanites mulleri – type locality for species
- † Alanites obesus – type locality for species
† Allocosmia
† Alsatites
- † Alsatites pamlicoensis – type locality for species
† Ambites
- † Ambites lilangensis
- † Ambites radiatus – or unidentified related form
† Ampakabastraea
- † Ampakabastraea cowichanensis
† Amphipopanoceras
- † Amphipopanoceras selwyni
† Anaflemingites
- † Anaflemingites russelli
- † Anaflemingites silberlingi
† Anagymnites
† Anagymnotoceras
- † Anagymnotoceras favretense
- † Anagymnotoceras variabilis – type locality for species
† Anasibirites
- † Anasibirites desertorum
- † Anasibirites kingianus
† Anatropites
- † Anatropites silberlingi
- † Anatropites sulfurensis – or unidentified comparable form
† Angulaticeras
- † Angulaticeras posttaurinus - or unidentified loosely related form
† Anolcites
- † Anolcites barberi – type locality for species
- † Anolcites drakei – type locality for species
† Antiquilima
- † Antiquilima ladinica – type locality for species
† Aplococeras
- † Aplococeras parvus – type locality for species
- † Aplococeras smithi
- † Aplococeras vogdesi – type locality for species
† Arcavicula
Life restoration of two species of the Late Triassic ammonoid cephalopod Arcestes
† Arcestes
- † Arcestes andersoni – type locality for species
- † Arcestes gigantogaleatus
- † Arcestes oligosarcus
† Arctoceras
- † Arctoceras tuberculatum
- † Arctoceras tuberculum
† Arctohungarites
- † Arctohungarites tregoi – type locality for species
† Arctoprionites
† Ardoreosomus – type locality for genus^[1]
- † Ardoreosomus occidentalis – type locality for species^[1]
† Areaseris – type locality for genus
- † Areaseris nevadaensis – type locality for species
† Arenicolites
† Aspenites
- † Aspenites acutus
Astarte
Fossil of the Ordovician-Modern sea star trace fossil ichnogenus Asteriacites
Asteriacites
- † Asteriacites lumbricalis
† Astraeomorpha
- † Astraeomorpha confusa
† Atractites
- † Atractites clavatulus – type locality for species
- † Atractites elegans – type locality for species
- † Atractites solidus – type locality for species
Atrina
- † Atrina sinuta – type locality for species
† Augustaceras – type locality for genus
- † Augustaceras escheri – type locality for species
- † Augustaceras robustum – type locality for species
- † Augustaceras staffordi – type locality for species
Life restoration of the Middle Triassic plesiosaur relative Augustasaurus
† Augustasaurus – type locality for genus
- † Augustasaurus hagdorni – type locality for species
† Aulametacoceras – tentative report
- † Aulametacoceras humboldtensis – type locality for species
Avicula
- † Avicula homfrayi – type locality for species
† Avicularia
- † Avicularia sayeri – or unidentified comparable form

B

† Badouxia
- † Badouxia canadensis
- † Badouxia columbiae
- † Badouxia forticostata
† Balatonites
- † Balatonites hexatuberculatus – type locality for species
- † Balatonites kingi – type locality for species
- † Balatonites shoshonensis – type locality for species
- † Balatonites whitneyi
† Balatonospira – tentative report
- † Balatonospira lipoldi – or unidentified comparable form
† Billingsites
- † Billingsites cordeyi
- † Billingsites escargueli – type locality for species
Life restoration of the Triassic bony fish Birgeria
† Birgeria
† Bivalvia conc
† Bositra
- † Bositra favretensis – type locality for species
† Brackites
- † Brackites spinosus – type locality for species
- † Brackites vogdesi – type locality for species
† Bradyia
- † Bradyia coyotense – type locality for species
† Brasilichnium
† Bulogites
- † Bulogites mojsvari

C

† Calliconites
- † Calliconites nevadensis – type locality for species
† Candelarialepis – type locality for genus^[1]
- † Candelarialepis argentus – type locality for species^[1]
Cardinia
† Carnites – tentative report
† Cassianastraea
- † Cassianastraea reussi
† Cassianella
- † Cassianella ligulata
- † Cassianella lingulata
† Caucasites
- † Caucasites nicholsi – type locality for species
† Caucasorhynchia
- † Caucasorhynchia altaplecta
† Ceccaceras
- † Ceccaceras stecki
† Ceccaisculitoides
- † Ceccaisculitoides elegans – type locality for species
† Ceratites
- † Ceratites weaveri – type locality for species
- † Ceratites whitneyi – type locality for species
Life restoration of the Late Triassic-Eocene lungfish Ceratodus
† Ceratodus
† Ceriostella – type locality for genus
- † Ceriostella martini
- † Ceriostella parva
- † Ceriostella variabilis – type locality for species
† Chiratites
- † Chiratites bituberculatus – type locality for species
- † Chiratites retrospinosus – type locality for species
Chlamys
† Chondrocoenia
- † Chondrocoenia schafhaeutli
† Chonespondylus
- † Chonespondylus grandis
† Choristoceras
- † Choristoceras crickmayi
- † Choristoceras marshi
- † Choristoceras minutum
- † Choristoceras rhaeticum
- † Choristoceras robustum – type locality for species
- † Choristoceras shoshonensis – type locality for species
† Churkites
- † Churkites noblei – type locality for species
† Cinnabaria
- † Cinnabaria expansa
† Claraia
- † Claraia aurita
- † Claraia clarai
- † Claraia stachei
† Clypites
- † Clypites evolvens – or unidentified comparable form
† Cochlichnus
† Cochloceras
- † Cochloceras fisheri
Fossil of the Triassic bony fish Colobodus
† Colobodus
† Complanicorona
- † Complanicorona rugosimargines – or unidentified related form
† Confusionella – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- † Confusionella loczyi
† Conservatella
- † Conservatella conservativa – type locality for species
† Constrigymnites
- † Constrigymnites robertsi – type locality for species
† Coral
Corbula – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- † Corbula blakei – type locality for species
† Cordillerites
- † Cordillerites angulatus – or unidentified comparable form
Fossilized shell of the Early Jurassic ammonoid cephalopod Coroniceras
† Coroniceras
- † Coroniceras fergusoni – type locality for species
- † Coroniceras grantsvillense – type locality for species
- † Coroniceras involutum – type locality for species
- † Coroniceras luningense – type locality for species
- † Coroniceras volcanoense – type locality for species
† Costatoria
† Crassistella
- † Crassistella juvavica
† Crittendenia
- † Crittendenia kummeli – type locality for species
† Crucella
† Ctenostreon
† Cuifastraea – tentative report
† Cuifia
- † Cuifia marmorea
† Curionia
† Curtoseris
- † Curtoseris dunlapcanyonae – type locality for species
- † Curtoseris parva
† Cycloceltites
- † Cycloceltites arduini
- † Cycloceltites tozeri – type locality for species
Life restoration of the Middle-Late Triassic ichthyosaur Cymbospondylus
† Cymbospondylus
- † Cymbospondylus natans
- † Cymbospondylus nevadanus – type locality for species
- † Cymbospondylus petrinus
- † Cymbospondylus piscosus
† Cypellospongia – type locality for genus
- † Cypellospongia fimbriartis

D

† Dalmatites
- † Dalmatites attenuatus
Fossilized shell of the Middle-Late Triassic marine bivalve Daonella
† Daonella
- † Daonella americana – type locality for species
- † Daonella dubia
- † Daonella elongata – or unidentified comparable form
- † Daonella gabbi
- † Daonella indica – or unidentified related form
- † Daonella lindstroemi
- † Daonella lommeli – or unidentified comparable form
- † Daonella lommelli – or unidentified comparable form
- † Daonella moussoni
- † Daonella rieberi – type locality for species
- † Daonella sturi – or unidentified comparable form
† Daxatina
† Decapod
† Decopod
† Deweveria
- † Deweveria crenulata – type locality for species
† Dieneroceras
- † Dieneroceras dieneri
- † Dieneroceras spathi
- † Dieneroceras subquadratum
† Discophyllites
- † Discophyllites ebneri
† Discoptychites
- † Discoptychites megalodiscus
† Discosiphonella
† Discretella
- † Discretella discreta – type locality for species
† Distichomeandra
- † Distichomeandra minor – or unidentified comparable form
† Distichophyllia – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- † Distichophyllia norica
† Dixieceras
- † Dixieceras lawsoni – type locality for species
† Dyscritellopsis
- † Dyscritellopsis montelloensis – type locality for species
- † Dyscritellopsis thaynesianus – type locality for species

E

† Elegantinia
- † Elegantinia paullorum – type locality for species
† Ellisonia – type locality for genus
- † Ellisonia nevadensis – type locality for species
- † Ellisonia triassica – type locality for species
† Elysastraea
- † Elysastraea austriaca – or unidentified comparable form
- † Elysastraea norica – or unidentified comparable form
- † Elysastraea profunda
Fossils of the Middle Triassic crinoid ("sea lily") Encrinus
† Encrinus
† Endothyra – or unidentified comparable form
† Enteropleura
- † Enteropleura jenksi – type locality for species
† Entolioides
- † Entolioides utahensis – type locality for species
† Entolium
† Eocomoseris
- † Eocomoseris ramosa
† Eogymnotoceras
- † Eogymnotoceras janvieri – type locality for species
- † Eogymnotoceras thompsoni – type locality for species
- † Eogymnotoceras transiens – type locality for species
- † Eogymnotoceras tuberculatum – type locality for species
† Eolytoceras
- † Eolytoceras artemisia – type locality for species
- † Eolytoceras guexi – type locality for species
- † Eolytoceras tasekoi
† Eoprotrachyceras
- † Eoprotrachyceras americanum
- † Eoprotrachyceras dunni – type locality for species
- † Eoprotrachyceras lahontanum – type locality for species
- † Eoprotrachyceras meeki
- † Eoprotrachyceras subasperum – type locality for species
† Epigondolella
- † Epigondolella bidentata
- † Epigondolella englandi
- † Epigondolella mosheri
† Epigymnites
- † Epigymnites alexandrae – type locality for species
† Eremites
† Eschericeratites
- † Eschericeratites lytoceratoides
† Eudiscoceras – type locality for genus
- † Eudiscoceras gabbi – type locality for species
† Euflemingites
- † Euflemingites cirratus
† Eumorphotis
- † Eumorphotis multiformis
† Eutomoceras – type locality for genus
- † Eutomoceras dalli – type locality for species
- † Eutomoceras dunni – type locality for species
- † Eutomoceras lahontanum – type locality for species
- † Eutomoceras laubei – type locality for species

F

† Fanthalamia
- † Fanthalamia astoma
† Favreticeras
- † Favreticeras ransomei – type locality for species
- † Favreticeras rieberi – type locality for species
- † Favreticeras wallacei – type locality for species
† Flexastrea – type locality for genus
- † Flexastrea serialis – type locality for species
† Frankites
- † Frankites sutherlandi
† Frechites
- † Frechites nevadanus – type locality for species
- † Frechites occidentalis – type locality for species
† Frenguelliella
† Furnishius – type locality for genus
- † Furnishius triserratus – type locality for species

G

† Gabboceras – type locality for genus
- † Gabboceras delicatum – type locality for species
† Galfettites
- † Galfettites lucasi – type locality for species
† Gaudemerites – type locality for genus
- † Gaudemerites rectangularis – type locality for species
† Germanonautilus
- † Germanonautilus furlongi – type locality for species
- † Germanonautilus johnstoni – type locality for species
- † Germanonautilus kummeli
† Gervillaria
- † Gervillaria favretensis – type locality for species
- † Gervillaria ponderosa – type locality for species
Fossilized shell of the Carboniferous-Eocene bivalve Gervillia
† Gervillia
† Ginsburgites
- † Ginsburgites americanus – type locality for species
† Globacrochordiceras
- † Globacrochordiceras transpacificum
† Glyptophiceras – tentative report
† Gnomohalorites
- † Gnomohalorites americanus
† Gondolella
- † Gondolella carinita – type locality for species
- † Gondolella denuda – or unidentified related form
- † Gondolella eotriassica – type locality for species
- † Gondolella milleri – type locality for species
- † Gondolella nevadensis – type locality for species
- † Gondolella planata – type locality for species
† Goniatites – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- † Goniatites laevidorsatus
† Goniomya
† Gonionotites
† Grambergia
† Gresslya
† Groenlandites
- † Groenlandites merriami – type locality for species
- † Groenlandites pridaense – type locality for species
Interior and exterior of a fossilized shell of the Late Triassic-Eocene marine bivalve Gryphaea
† Gryphaea
- † Gryphaea nevadensis – type locality for species
† Grypoceras
- † Grypoceras brahmanicum – or unidentified comparable form
- † Grypoceras whitneyi – type locality for species
† Guangxidella
- † Guangxidella bransoni – type locality for species
† Guembelastraea
- † Guembelastraea martini
† Guembelites
- † Guembelites jandianus
- † Guembelites philostrati
† Guexiceras – type locality for genus
- † Guexiceras profundus – type locality for species
† Guexites
- † Guexites pacificus – type locality for species
† Guineana
- † Guineana alta – type locality for species
† Guodunites
- † Guodunites monneti – or unidentified comparable form
Fossilized shell of the Triassic ammonoid cephalopod Gymnites
† Gymnites
- † Gymnites billingsi – type locality for species
- † Gymnites calli – type locality for species
- † Gymnites humboldti – or unidentified comparable form
- † Gymnites perplanus – type locality for species
- † Gymnites tozeri – type locality for species
- † Gymnites tregorum – type locality for species
† Gymnotoceras – type locality for genus
- † Gymnotoceras blakei – type locality for species
- † Gymnotoceras ginsbergi – or unidentified related form
- † Gymnotoceras ginsburgi – type locality for species
- † Gymnotoceras mimetus – type locality for species
- † Gymnotoceras praecursor – type locality for species
- † Gymnotoceras rotelliformis – type locality for species
- † Gymnotoceras weitschati – type locality for species
† Gyrochorte
† Gyrolepis – tentative report

H

† Halobia
- † Halobia beyrichi
- † Halobia selwyni – or unidentified comparable form
- † Halobia septentrionalis
† Hannaoceras
† Hemilecanites
- † Hemilecanites fastigatus – type locality for species
- † Hemilecanites paradiscus – or unidentified comparable form
† Hemiprionites
- † Hemiprionites roberti – type locality for species
† Heptastylis
- † Heptastylis stromatoporoides – or unidentified comparable form
† Hibbardella
- † Hibbardella subsymmetrica – type locality for species
† Hollandites
- † Hollandites congressensis – type locality for species
- † Hollandites pelletieri – or unidentified comparable form
- † Hollandites silberlingi – type locality for species
- † Hollandites spivaki
- † Hollandites voiti – or unidentified related form
† Holocrinus
† Humboldtites
- † Humboldtites septentrionalis – type locality for species
† Hungarites
- † Hungarites inermis
Restoration of two of the Permian-Late Cretaceous cartilaginous fish Hybodus
† Hybodus
- † Hybodus nevadensis – type locality for species
† Hyerifalchia

I

† Ichthyosaurus
† Intornites
- † Intornites mctaggarti
- † Intornites nevadanus – type locality for species
† Inyoites
- † Inyoites oweni
† Iranothalamia – tentative report
- † Iranothalamia incrustans – type locality for species
† Isculites
- † Isculites constrictus – type locality for species
- † Isculites meeki – type locality for species
- † Isculites tozeri – type locality for species
† Ismidites
- † Ismidites marmarensis – or unidentified comparable form
Isocrinus

J

† Japonites
- † Japonites starensis – type locality for species
- † Japonites surgriva – or unidentified comparable form
- † Japonites welteri – type locality for species
† Jaworskiella
- † Jaworskiella siemonmulleri – type locality for species
† Jenksites
- † Jenksites flexicostatus – type locality for species
† Juraphyllites - broadly construed
† Juvavites
† Juvenites
- † Juvenites dieneri
- † Juvenites septentrigonalis
- † Juvenites septentrionalis
- † Juvenites thermarum

K

† Kalentera – tentative report
- † Kalentera lawsi – type locality for species
† Kashmirites
- † Kashmirites nivalis
† Khytrastrea – type locality for genus
- † Khytrastrea cuifiamorpha – type locality for species
- † Khytrastrea silberlingi – type locality for species
† Klamatgites
† Klamathites
- † Klamathites macrolobatus
- † Klamathites schucherti
† Klamthites
† Koipatoceras – type locality for genus
- † Koipatoceras discoideus – type locality for species
- † Koipatoceras kraffti – type locality for species
† Kraussodontus
† Kuhnastraea
- † Kuhnastraea decussata – or unidentified comparable form

L

† Labascicorona
† Lanceolites
- † Lanceolites bicarinatus
- † Lanceolites compactus
† Lecanites
- † Lecanites arnoldi
† Leiophyllites
† Lenotropites
- † Lenotropites caurus
† Lepismatina
- † Lepismatina mansfieldi
† Leptochondria
- † Leptochondria curtocardinalis
- † Leptochondria occidanea
- † Leptochondria shoshonensis – type locality for species
Restoration of a school of the Middle Triassic-Early Cretaceous bony fish Leptolepis
† Leptolepis
- † Leptolepis nevadensis
Limaria
† Liostrea – tentative report
- † Liostrea jungi – type locality for species
† Lithiotis
- † Lithiotis problematica
† Lockeia
† Lonchodina
- † Lonchodina aequiarcuata – type locality for species
- † Lonchodina nevadensis – type locality for species
- † Lonchodina triassica – type locality for species
† Lonchodus
† Longobardites
- † Longobardites parvus – type locality for species
- † Longobardites zsigmondyi
Fossilized shell of the Triassic-modern marine bivalve Lopha
Lopha
- † Lopha montis
† Loxochlamys – type locality for genus
- † Loxochlamys corallina – type locality for species

M

Fossils of the Cretaceous theropod dinosaur egg oogenus Macroelongatoolithus
† Macroelongatoolithus
- † Macroelongatoolithus carlylei – or unidentified comparable form
† Maeandrostylis
- † Maeandrostylis vancouverensis
† Marcouxites
- † Marcouxites spinifer – type locality for species
† Margarogyra
- † Margarogyra silberlingi – type locality for species
Marginulina
† Meandrostylus
- † Meandrostylus vancouverensis
† Meandrovolzeia
† Meekoceras
- † Meekoceras gracilitatis
- † Meekoceras mushbachanum – or unidentified comparable form
- † Meekoceras tenuistriatum – or unidentified comparable form
† Megaphyllites
- † Megaphyllites wildhorsensis – type locality for species
† Meleagrinella
† Mesomiltha
† Mesomorpha
- † Mesomorpha newpassensis – type locality for species
† Metadagnoceras
- † Metadagnoceras youngi – type locality for species
† Metadinarites
- † Metadinarites desertorus – type locality for species
† Metapolygnathus
- † Metapolygnathus communisti - or unidentified loosely related form
† Metophioceras
- † Metophioceras rotarium – or unidentified related form
- † Metophioceras trigonatum – type locality for species
† Metussuria
† Michelinoceras
- † Michelinoceras campanile
† Microconchus
† Minasteria
- † Minasteria shastensis
† Miocidaris
† Misikella
- † Misikella posthernsteini
Life restoration of the Middle Triassic ichthyosaur Mixosaurus
† Mixosaurus
- † Mixosaurus natans – or unidentified comparable form
† Modiolus
† Modiomorpha – tentative report
- † Modiomorpha lata – type locality for species
- † Modiomorpha ovata – type locality for species
† Mojsisovicsites
† Mojsvarites
- † Mojsvarites agenor – type locality for species
Fossilized shell of the Middle Triassic ammonoid cephalopod Monophyllites
† Monophyllites
- † Monophyllites wengensis
† Monotis
- † Monotis alaskana
- † Monotis haueri
- † Monotis subcircularis
† Montlivaltia – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
† Mucrovenator – type locality for genus
- † Mucrovenator minimus – type locality for species
† Mullericeras – type locality for genus
- † Mullericeras fergusoni – type locality for species
- † Mullericeras spitiense
† Myalina
- † Myalina postcarbonica
Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous marine bivalve Myophoria
† Myophoria
- † Myophoria humboldtensis – type locality for species
- † Myophoria shoshoniensis
† Myophoricardium
† Mytilus
- † Mytilus homfrayi – type locality for species

N

† Nabolella
† Naomichelys
† Nautiloida
† Neogondolella
- † Neogondolella mombergensis
Fossilized shell of the Triassic bivalve Neomegalodon
† Neomegalodon
† Neophyllites – or unidentified comparable form
† Neoprioniodus
- † Neoprioniodus unicornus – type locality for species
† Neoschizodus
- † Neoschizodus elongatus – type locality for species
† Nerinea
† Nevadalithium
† Nevadapecten – type locality for genus
- † Nevadapecten lynnae – type locality for species
† Nevadaphyllites
- † Nevadaphyllites compressus
- † Nevadaphyllites microumbilicatus – type locality for species
† Nevadathalamia
- † Nevadathalamia cylindrica
† Nevadisculites
- † Nevadisculites depressus – type locality for species
- † Nevadisculites minutus – type locality for species
- † Nevadisculites smithi – type locality for species
- † Nevadisculites taylori – type locality for species
† Nevadites
- † Nevadites humboldtensis – type locality for species
- † Nevadites hyatti – type locality for species
† Nevadoseris
- † Nevadoseris puncata
- † Nevadoseris punctata – type locality for species
† Nicholsites
- † Nicholsites newpassensis – type locality for species
- † Nicholsites parisi – type locality for species
- † Nicholsites tozeri – type locality for species
† Nitanoceras
- † Nitanoceras selwyni
Nodosaria – or unidentified comparable form
† Noridiscites
† Nuclana
Nuculana
† Nuculoma

O

† Obnixia – type locality for genus
- † Obnixia thaynesiana
† Odoghertyceras
- † Odoghertyceras deweveri
† Oedalmia
- † Oedalmia norica
† Omanoselache
- † Omanoselache bucheri – type locality for species
Life restoration of the Middle-Late Triassic ichthyosaur Omphalosaurus
† Omphalosaurus – type locality for genus
- † Omphalosaurus nevadanus – type locality for species
† Ophiceras
- † Ophiceras sakuntala
† Oppelismilia
† Orthoceras
- † Orthoceras blakei – type locality for species
Ostrea
† Oulodus
- † Oulodus triassica – type locality for species
† Owenites
- † Owenites koeneni
† Oxylongobardites
- † Oxylongobardites acutus – type locality for species
† Oxytoma
- † Oxytoma grantsvillensis – type locality for species
- † Oxytoma inequivalvis
† Ozarkodina
- † Ozarkodina brevis – or unidentified related form
- † Ozarkodina mulleri – type locality for species
- † Ozarkodina nevadensis – type locality for species
- † Ozarkodina raridenticulata – type locality for species
- † Ozarkodina triassica – type locality for species

P

† Palaeastraea
- † Palaeastraea decussata – or unidentified comparable form
- † Palaeastraea descussata
† Palaeobates
- † Palaeobates shastensis – or unidentified comparable form
† Palaeolima
- † Palaeolima newpassensis – type locality for species
† Palaeospinax – tentative report
† Pamiroseris
- † Pamiroseris rectilamellosa
† Parachirognathus
- † Parachirognathus ethingtoni – type locality for species
- † Parachirognathus geiseri – type locality for species
† Paracrochordiceras
- † Paracrochordiceras americanum
- † Paracrochordiceras mclearni – type locality for species
- † Paracrochordiceras plicatus
- † Paracrochordiceras silberlingi – type locality for species
† Paradanubites
- † Paradanubites crassicostatus – type locality for species
† Parafrechites
- † Parafrechites dunni – type locality for species
- † Parafrechites meeki – type locality for species
† Paragymnites
- † Paragymnites symmetricus
† Parahedenstroemia
- † Parahedenstroemia kiparisovae
Fossilized skeleton of the Triassic bony fish Paralepidotus
† Paralepidotus – tentative report
† Parallelodon
† Paranannites
- † Paranannites aspenensis
- † Paranannites mulleri
- † Paranannites slossi
† Paranautilus
- † Paranautilus multicameratus – type locality for species
- † Paranautilus smithi – type locality for species
† Paranevadites
- † Paranevadites furlongi – type locality for species
- † Paranevadites gabbi – type locality for species
† Paratrachyceras
† Paratriassoastrum
- † Paratriassoastrum crassum
† Parussuria
- † Parussuria compressa
† Parvidiabolus
- † Parvidiabolus onvexus – or unidentified related form
† Parvigondolella
† Pegmavalvula
- † Pegmavalvula triassica – type locality for species
† Permophorus
- † Permophorus bregeri
Life restoration of the Triassic ichthyosaur Phalarodon
† Phalarodon
- † Phalarodon fraasi
† Phloioceras
- † Phloioceras mulieri
Pholadomya
† Phragmotrypa – type locality for genus
- † Phragmotrypa ordinata – type locality for species
† Piarorhynchella
- † Piarorhynchella triassica
† Pinacophyllum
- † Pinacophyllum parallelum – or unidentified comparable form
Pinna
† Placites
- † Placites humboldtensis – type locality for species
† Placunopsis
† Plafkerium
- † Plafkerium keloense – or unidentified related form
† Plagiostoma
- † Plagiostoma acutum – type locality for species
- † Plagiostoma striatum
Fossils of the burrow ichnogenus Planolites
† Planolites
† Platycuccoceras
- † Platycuccoceras bonaevistae – type locality for species
- † Platycuccoceras cainense – type locality for species
- † Platycuccoceras favretense – type locality for species
- † Platycuccoceras praebalatonensis – type locality for species
- † Platycuccoceras rugosum – type locality for species
- † Platycuccoceras silberlingi – type locality for species
- † Platycuccoceras tozeri – type locality for species
† Plectoconcha
- † Plectoconcha aequiplicata – type locality for species
- † Plectoconcha newbyi – type locality for species
† Plectodiscus
- † Plectodiscus berlinensis – type locality for species
† Plesiechinus
- † Plesiechinus hawkinsi – type locality for species
† Pleurofrechites
- † Pleurofrechites johnstoni – type locality for species
† Pleuromya
- † Pleuromya humboldtensis – type locality for species
Fossilized shell of the Carboniferous-Triassic nautiloid cephalopod Pleuronautilus
† Pleuronautilus
† Pleuronectites
- † Pleuronectites meeki – type locality for species
- † Pleuronectites newelli – type locality for species
Plicatula
- † Plicatula perimbricata
† Polyacrodus
- † Polyacrodus tregoi – type locality for species
† Polycystocoelia
- † Polycystocoelia silberlingi – type locality for species
† Posidonia
- † Posidonia blatchleyi
- † Posidonia daytonensis – type locality for species
- † Posidonia stella – type locality for species
† Preflorianites
- † Preflorianites toulai
† Primatella
- † Primatella asymmetrica
- † Primatella conservativa
- † Primatella mersinensis
- † Primatella orchardi
† Prioniodina
- † Prioniodina montellensis – type locality for species
† Proarcestes
- † Proarcestes balfouri – type locality for species
- † Proarcestes bramantei – or unidentified comparable form
- † Proarcestes gabbi – type locality for species
- † Proarcestes nevadanus – type locality for species
† Proclydonautilus
† Prohungarites
- † Prohungarites lenticularis – type locality for species
- † Prohungarites submckelvei – type locality for species
† Promyalina
† Promysidiella
- † Promysidiella desatoyensis – type locality for species
- † Promysidiella otiosa – or unidentified related form
- † Promysidiella planirecta – type locality for species
† Proptychites
- † Proptychites ammonoides – or unidentified comparable form
- † Proptychites haydeni
- † Proptychites pagei – type locality for species
- † Proptychites trilobatus – or unidentified comparable form
† Proteusites
- † Proteusites fergusoni – type locality for species
- † Proteusites weitschati – type locality for species
Fossilized shell of the Triassic ammonoid cephalopod Protrachyceras
† Protrachyceras
- † Protrachyceras sikanianum – or unidentified related form
- † Protrachyceras springeri – type locality for species
† Pseudacrochordiceras
- † Pseudacrochordiceras inyoense
† Pseudaetomoceras
- † Pseudaetomoceras shoshonense – type locality for species
† Pseudaspenites
- † Pseudaspenites balinii – type locality for species
† Pseudaspidites
- † Pseudaspidites silberlingi – type locality for species
- † Pseudaspidites wheeleri
† Pseudodanubites
- † Pseudodanubites dixiensis – type locality for species
- † Pseudodanubites halli
- † Pseudodanubites nicholsi – type locality for species
† Pseudokeyserlingites
- † Pseudokeyserlingites guexi – type locality for species
† Pseudolimea
- † Pseudolimea naumani
† Pseudomonotis
- † Pseudomonotis circularis
† Pseudoplacunopsis
- † Pseudoplacunopsis fissistriata – or unidentified related form
† Pseudosageceras
- † Pseudosageceras augustum
- † Pseudosageceras multilobatum
† Pseudospondylospira
- † Pseudospondylospira perplexa
† Pseudosvalbardiceras – tentative report
- † Pseudosvalbardiceras humboldtense – type locality for species
† Pseudotropites
- † Pseudotropites ultratriasicus
† Psiloceras
- † Psiloceras marcouxi
- † Psiloceras pacificum
- † Psiloceras spelae
- † Psiloceras tilmanni
† Pteronisculus ^[1]
- † Pteronisculus nevadanus – type locality for species^[1]
† Ptychites
- † Ptychites densistriatus – type locality for species
- † Ptychites evansi – type locality for species
- † Ptychites gradinarui – type locality for species
Fossilized skeleton of the bony fish Ptycholepis
† Ptycholepis – tentative report
† Pyknotylacanthus
- † Pyknotylacanthus humboldtensis – type locality for species

R

† Radioceras
- † Radioceras evolvens – or unidentified comparable form
- † Radioceras kraffti – or unidentified comparable form
† Retiophyllia
- † Retiophyllia delicatula
- † Retiophyllia fenestrata
- † Retiophyllia nevadae – type locality for species
- † Retiophyllia norica
† Rhabdoceras
- † Rhabdoceras suessi
† Rhacophyllites
- † Rhacophyllites debilis
† Rhaetina
- † Rhaetina gregaria – type locality for species
Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Eocene articulate brachiopod Rhynchonella
† Rhynchonella – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- † Rhynchonella lingulata – type locality for species
† Rhynchopterus – type locality for genus
- † Rhynchopterus obesus – type locality for species
† Rieberites
- † Rieberites transiformis – type locality for species
† Rieppelites
- † Rieppelites boletzkyi – type locality for species
- † Rieppelites cimeganus
- † Rieppelites shevyrevi – type locality for species

S

† Sageceras
- † Sageceras gabbi – type locality for species
- † Sageceras walteri
† Sagenites
- † Sagenites minaensis – type locality for species
- † Sagenites striata – type locality for species
Fossilized skeleton of the Early Triassic-Middle Jurassic bony fish Saurichthys
† Saurichthys
† Schafhaeutlia
† Schlotheimia
- † Schlotheimia cuevitensis – or unidentified comparable form
† Schreinbachites
- † Schreinbachites laqueoides – or unidentified related form
† Semibeyrichites
† Septocardia
† Septocardita
† Septocarditia
Diagram illustrating Shonisaurus (green) and Shastasaurus sikanniensis (red) with an anachronistic human to scale
† Shonisaurus
- † Shonisaurus popularis
† Sibyllonautilus
- † Sibyllonautilus fergusoni – type locality for species
† Silberlingeria
- † Silberlingeria rubyae – type locality for species
† Silberlingites
- † Silberlingites mulleri – type locality for species
- † Silberlingites tregoi – type locality for species
† Silberlingitoides
- † Silberlingitoides clarkei – type locality for species
- † Silberlingitoides cricki – type locality for species
- † Silberlingitoides praecursor – type locality for species
† Sirenites
- † Sirenites homfrayi – type locality for species
Fossils of the red alga Solenopora
† Solenopora
† Sphaera – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- † Sphaera whitneyi – type locality for species
† Spiriferina
- † Spiriferina alia
- † Spiriferina homfrayi – type locality for species
- † Spiriferina roundyi
† Spirigera – or unidentified comparable form
Spiroplectammina
† Spondylospira
- † Spondylospira lewesensis
- † Spondylospira tricosta – type locality for species
† Spongiomorpha
- † Spongiomorpha gibbosa
- † Spongiomorpha minor – or unidentified comparable form
- † Spongiomorpha tenuis
† Stenopopanoceras
† Stikinoceras
- † Stikinoceras kerri
† Storthoceras
- † Storthoceras garfieldense – type locality for species
† Stromatomorpha
- † Stromatomorpha califormica – or unidentified comparable form
† Stuoresimorpha
- † Stuoresimorpha norica – or unidentified comparable form
† Sturia
- † Sturia japonica – or unidentified comparable form
† Styrionautilus
† Styrites
- † Styrites tropitiformis – or unidentified comparable form
† Subvishnuites
- † Subvishnuites stokesi
† Sulioticeras
- † Sulioticeras intermedium – or unidentified comparable form
† Syringoceras
- † Syringoceras spurri – type locality for species

T

† Tetsaoceras
- † Tetsaoceras hayesi
Life restoration of the Middle Triassic ichthyosaur Thalattoarchon
† Thalattoarchon – type locality for genus
- † Thalattoarchon saurophagis – type locality for species
† Thamnasteria
- † Thamnasteria borealis
- † Thamnasteria rectimellosa
- † Thamnasteria smithi
† Thanamites
- † Thanamites contractus – type locality for species
† Thecosmilia – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
† Tipperoceras – type locality for genus
- † Tipperoceras mullerense – type locality for species
† Tmaegoceras
- † Tmaegoceras nudaries – type locality for species
† Tozerites
- † Tozerites gemmellaroi
- † Tozerites humboldtensis – type locality for species
- † Tozerites polygyratus – type locality for species
† Trachyceras
- † Trachyceras silberlingi – type locality for species
† Trichites
Fossilized shell of the Permian-Paleocene marine bivalve Trigonia
† Trigonia
- † Trigonia hemisphaerica – or unidentified related form
† Tropiceitites
- † Tropiceitites columbianus
† Tropiceltites
† Tropigastrites
- † Tropigastrites lahontanus – type locality for species
- † Tropigastrites louderbacki – type locality for species
† Tropigymnites
- † Tropigymnites planorbis – or unidentified comparable form
† Tropites
- † Tropites crassicostatus
- † Tropites latiumbilicatus
- † Tropites nevadanus
- † Tropites nodosus
- † Tropites subquadratus
† Tropithisbites
- † Tropithisbites densicostatus
† Tutcheria

U

† Umbrostrea
- † Umbrostrea montiscaprilis – or unidentified comparable form
† Unionites
- † Unionites carinata
† Unionvillites
- † Unionvillites asseretoi – type locality for species
- † Unionvillites hadleyi – type locality for species
† Ussuridiscus
† Ussurites
- † Ussurites arthaberi – or unidentified comparable form
- † Ussurites detwilleri – type locality for species

V

† Vandaites
- † Vandaites newyorkensis – type locality for species
† Vaugonia
- † Vaugonia vancouverensis – or unidentified comparable form
† Vavilovites
† Vermiceras
- † Vermiceras concavum – type locality for species
- † Vermiceras densicostatum – type locality for species
- † Vermiceras mineralense – type locality for species
- † Vermiceras rursicostatum
† Vex
- † Vex semisimplex

W

† Wasatchites – tentative report
† Weyla
† Wyomingites
- † Wyomingites aplanatus
- † Wyomingites arnoldi
- † Wyomingites whiteanus

X

† Xenoceltites
- † Xenoceltites youngi
Fossilized shells of the ammonoid cephalopod Xenodiscus
† Xenodiscus
- † Xenodiscus nevadanus

Z

† Zeilleria
- † Zeilleria elliptica – or unidentified comparable form
† Zieglericonus
- † Zieglericonus rhaeticum
† Zugmayerella – type locality for genus
- † Zugmayerella incinata
- † Zugmayerella uncinata – type locality for species

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 Carlo Romano; Adriana López-Arbarello; David Ware; James F. Jenks; Winand Brinkmann (2019). "Marine Early Triassic Actinopterygii from the Candelaria Hills (Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA)". Journal of Paleontology. 93 (5): 971–1000. doi:10.1017/jpa.2019.18.

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[Ardoreosomus-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 Carlo Romano; Adriana López-Arbarello; David Ware; James F. Jenks; Winand Brinkmann (2019). "Marine Early Triassic Actinopterygii from the Candelaria Hills (Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA)". Journal of Paleontology. 93 (5): 971–1000. doi:10.1017/jpa.2019.18.

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