List of the prehistoric life of Kentucky

This list of the prehistoric life of Kentucky contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Kentucky.

Precambrian

The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Kentucky.

Paleozoic

Main article: List of the Paleozoic life of Kentucky

Selected Paleozoic taxa of Kentucky

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  Fossilized calyx of the Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Abrotocrinus

  † Abrotocrinus
  • † Abrotocrinus coreyi
  • † Abrotocrinus unicus
• † Achatella
• † Achistrum
  • † Achistrum ludwigi
  • † Achistrum nicholsoni
• † Acidaspis
• † Acrophyllum
• † Actinoceras
• † Actinocrinites
  • † Actinocrinites gibsoni
• † Agaricocrinus
  • † Agaricocrinus americanus

• 

  Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris

  † Alethopteris
  • † Alethopteris decurrens
  • † Alethopteris lonchitica – or unidentified comparable form
• † Ammonellipsites
• † Amphiscapha
• † Amplexopora
• † Amplexus
• † Anchiopella
• † Anisophyllum
• † Annularia
• † Archaeocidaris
• † Archaeopteris

• 

  Fossils of the Carboniferous-Permian bryozoan Archimedes

  † Archimedes
  • † Archimedes communis
  • † Archimedes compactus
  • † Archimedes distans
  • † Archimedes invaginatus
  • † Archimedes lativolvis
  • † Archimedes macfarlani
  • † Archimedes meekanoides
  • † Archimedes meekanus
  • † Archimedes proutanus
  • † Archimedes swallowvanus
  • † Archimedes terebriformis

• 

  Fossilized teeth of the Devonian-Cretaceous shark Asteracanthus

  † Asteracanthus
• † Athyris
  • † Athyris fultonensis
• † Atrypa
• † Augustoceras
• † Aulopora
  • † Aulopora tubiporoides
• † Aviculopecten
  • † Aviculopecten germanus – or unidentified related form
• † Bellerophon
• † Beyrichoceras
• † Bisatoceras – tentative report
• † Bostonia

• 

  Life restoration of the Early Ordovician-Silurian trilobite Bumastus

  † Bumastus
• † Calamites
  • † Calamites cistii
  • † Calamites undulatus
• † Callixylon
• † Calyptaulax
• † Camarotoechia
  • † Camarotoechia mutata
• † Cameroceras
• † Cartersoceras
• † Ceratopsis
• † Ceraurus
• † Chasmatopora
• † Chonetes

• 

  Assemblage of fossilized shells of the Ordovician brachiopod Cincinnetina

  † Cincinnetina
  • † Cincinnetina meeki
  • † Cincinnetina multisecta
• † Cladochonus
  • † Cladochonus beecheri
  • † Cladochonus crassus
• † Cleiothyridina
  • † Cleiothyridina hirsuta
  • † Cleiothyridina sublamellosa
• † Climacograptus
• † Coenites

• 

  Fossilized shell of the Late Devonian-Permian brachiopod Composita

  † Composita
  • † Composita subquadrata
  • † Composita trinuclea
• † Conostoma
• † Constellaria
• † Cordaites
• † Cornulites
• † Crania – tentative report
• † Craniops
• † Cyathocrinites
  • † Cyathocrinites glenni
  • † Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus
  • † Cyathocrinites parvibrachiatus
• † Cyclonema
• † Cydrocrinus
• † Cyphaspis
• † Cypricardinia

• 

  Restoration of the Cambrian-Middle Devonian nautiloid cephalopod Cyrtoceras

  † Cyrtoceras
• † Cyrtolites
• † Cystodictya
  • † Cystodictya lineata
• † Decadocrinus
• † Declinognathodus
  • † Declinognathodus donetzianus
• † Diplograptus
• † Dizygocrinus
  • † Dizygocrinus whitei
• † Edmondia
• † Emmonsia
• † Endoceras
• Eocaudina
• † Eospirifer
• † Equisetum
  • † Equisetum arvense
• † Eretmocrinus
  • † Eretmocrinus magnificus

• 

  Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites

  † Favosites
  • † Favosites arbor
  • † Favosites biloculi
  • † Favosites discoideus
  • † Favosites favosus
  • † Favosites hisingeri
  • † Favosites niagarensis
  • † Favosites proximatus
  • † Favosites quercus
  • † Favosites rotundituba
  • † Favosites turbinatus
• † Fenestella

• 

  Front (left) and right side (right) views of an enrolled fossil of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian trilobite Flexicalymene

  † Flexicalymene
  • † Flexicalymene meeki
• † Foerstia
• † Forbesiocrinus
• † Gastrioceras
• † Gilbertsocrinus
• † Glossina
• † Glyptocrinus
• † Glyptopleura
• † Gnathodus
• † Goniatites
• † Gravicalymene

• 

  Multiple views of a fossil of the Ordovician horn coral Grewingkia

  † Grewingkia
  • † Grewingkia rusticum
• † Hallia
• † Hallopora
• † Halysites
• † Heliophyllum
  • † Heliophyllum halli
• † Helminthochiton
• † Hindia
• † Holopea
• † Hyolithes
• † Idiognathoides
  • † Idiognathoides sinuatus
• † Iocrinus
• † Isotelus
  • † Isotelus gigas
  • † Isotelus maximus
• † Kazakhstania
• † Krausella
• † Lepidodendron
  • † Lepidodendron aculeatum – or unidentified comparable form
• † Lepidostrobus

• 

  Illustration of a fossilized shell of the Cambrian-Late Ordovician brachiopod Lingulella

  † Lingulella
• † Liroceras
• Lithophaga – tentative report
• † Maelonoceras
• † Masonoceras – type locality for genus
• † Maximites
• † Meristella
• † Meristina – tentative report
• † Michelinoceras
• † Murchisonia
• † Murrayoceras
• † Neospirifer
  • † Neospirifer cameratus

• 

  Fronds of the Carboniferous seed fern Neuropteris

  † Neuropteris
  • † Neuropteris gigantea
  • † Neuropteris heterophylla
  • † Neuropteris tenuifolia – or unidentified comparable form
• † Oncoceras
• † Onychocrinus
• † Ormoceras
• † Orthoceras
• † Pattersonia
• † Pecopteris
  • † Pecopteris plumosa – or unidentified comparable form
• † Pentagonia
• † Pentamerus
• † Pentremites
  • † Pentremites tulipaformis
• † Periastron
• † Phillipsia
• † Phragmolites
• † Pitys
• † Plaesiomys
• † Platyceras
• † Platycrinites

• 

  Fossilized shell of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Platystrophia

  † Platystrophia
  • † Platystrophia acutilirata
  • † Platystrophia annieana
  • † Platystrophia clarkesvillensis
  • † Platystrophia clarksvillensis
  • † Platystrophia cypha
• † Plectoceras
• † Pleurodictyum
• Pleurotomaria
• † Polygnathus
  • † Polygnathus communis
• † Polygrammoceras

• 

  Restoration of the Silurian trilobite Proetus

  † Proetus
• † Protosalvinia
• † Prototaxites
• † Pseudopolygnathus
• † Pterotheca
• † Quadratia
• † Scytalocrinus
• † Similodonta
• † Solenopora
• † Sowerbyella
• † Sphenophyllum
  • † Sphenophyllum cuneifolium
• † Sphenopteris
• † Sphenothallus
• † Spirifer
  • † Spirifer rockymontanus
• † Spiriferina
• † Stenaster
• † Stigmaria
• † Stigmatella

• 

  Fossilized shell of the Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Strophomena

  † Strophomena
  • † Strophomena concordensis
  • † Strophomena costellata – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Strophomena neglecta
  • † Strophomena planumbona
  • † Strophomena sulcata
• † Subulites
• † Syringopora
• † Taxocrinus
• † Tetradium
• † Theelia
• † Treptoceras

• 

  Restoration showing the top (left) and underside of the Late Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus

  † Triarthrus
  • † Triarthrus eatoni
• † Triendoceras – tentative report
• † Trocholites
• † Ulrichicrinus
• † Whiteavesia
• † Worthenia
• † Zadelsdorfia – tentative report

Mesozoic

The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Mesozoic fossils in Kentucky.

Cenozoic

• † Berhamniphyllum – type locality for genus
  • † Berhamniphyllum claibornense – type locality for species
• Canis
  • † Canis dirus
• † Diplotropis
  • † Diplotropis claibornensis – type locality for species
• Equus

• 

  Fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Holocene elephant relative Mammuthus , or mammoth

  † Mammuthus
• Microtus
  • † Microtus xanthognathus – or unidentified comparable form
• † Platygonus
• Spermophilus
  • † Spermophilus tridecemlineatus – or unidentified comparable form
• Taxidea
• Ursus
  • † Ursus arctos

References

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