List of the prehistoric life of Missouri

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

Precambrian

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

Paleozoic

Main article: List of the Paleozoic life of Missouri

Selected Paleozoic taxa of Missouri

• † Achatella
• † Achistrum
• † Acutimitoceras – tentative report

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  Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris

  † Alethopteris
  • † Alethopteris davreuxi
  • † Alethopteris decurrens
  • † Alethopteris grandini
  • † Alethopteris serlii
  • † Alethopteris valida
• † Amphiscapha
• † Ananias
• † Annularia
  • † Annularia sphenophylloides
  • † Annularia stellata
• † Anomphalus
• † Anthracoceras

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  Restoration of the Late Ordovician nautiloid cephalopod Aphetoceras being preyed upon by a Cameroceras

  † Aphetoceras
• † Aphlebia
• † Archeognathus – type locality for genus
• † Artisia
• † Asterotheca
• † Athyris
  • † Athyris fultonensis
  • † Athyris lamellosa
• † Aulochiton – type locality for genus
• † Aviculopecten
  • † Aviculopecten gradicosta
• † Avonia
• † Bellerophon
  • † Bellerophon graphicus
  • † Bellerophon jeffersonensis – type locality for species
• † Bembexia
• † Beyrichoceras
• † Bisatoceras
• † Bolbocephalus
• † Bumastus
  • † Bumastus trentonensis

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  Fossilized stems from the Carboniferous-Permian horsetail relative Calamites

  † Calamites
  • † Calamites carinatus
  • † Calamites cistii
  • † Calamites cruciatus
  • † Calamites suckowii
• † Calyptaulax
• † Camarotoechia
  • † Camarotoechia elegantula
  • † Camarotoechia horsfordi
  • † Camarotoechia tuta
• † Campbelloceras
• † Cardiocarpus
• † Cavusgnathus

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  Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician trilobite Ceraurus

  † Ceraurus
• † Chelodes
• † Chonetes
  • † Chonetes geniculatus
  • † Chonetes mesoloba
  • † Chonetes ornatus
• † Clarkoceras
• † Cleiothyridina
  • † Cleiothyridina incrassata
  • † Cleiothyridina orbicularis
• † Cliftonia
• † Coenocystis

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  Fossilized shell of the Late Devonian-Permian brachiopod Composita

  † Composita
  • † Composita elongata
  • † Composita ovata
  • † Composita subtilita
  • † Composita tetralobata
• † Conocardium
• † Coolinia
• † Cordaicarpus
• † Cordaites
  • † Cordaites crassinervis
  • † Cordaites principalis
• † Cornuella – type locality for genus
• † Cornulites
• † Crania
• † Crepipora
  • † Crepipora globulifera – type locality for species
• † Curtognathus
• † Cyclonema
• † Cyclopteris
• † Cyphaspis
• † Cyrtoceras
• † Cyrtolites
• † Dalmanites
• † Deckera
• † Della
• † Dicoelosia

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  Illustration of the jaws of Dinichthys

  † Dinichthys
• † Domatoceras
• † Dorycordaites
• † Earlandia
• † Echinosphaerites
• † Edmondia
• † Ellesmeroceras
• Eocaudina
• † Eospirifer
• † Euomphalus

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  Life restoration of the Permian Chimaera relative Fadenia

  † Fadenia
• † Favosites
• † Flexicalymene
  • † Flexicalymene senaria
• † Gervillia
• † Glossina
• † Gnathodus
  • † Gnathodus typicus
• † Gondolella
• † Halysites
• † Helcionopsis
• † Hemithecella – type locality for genus
• † Hindia
• † Holia – type locality for genus
• † Holopea
• † Hyolithes
• † Hypseloconus
• † Idiognathodus
• † Irvingella

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  Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus .

  † Isotelus
  • † Isotelus gigas
  • † Isotelus maximus
• † Jeffersonia
• † Kendallina
• † Kirengella
• † Kirkella – type locality for genus
• † Lepidophyllum
• † Lingula
• † Liroceras
• † Matthevia
• † Maximites
• † Meristella
• † Meristina
• † Metacoceras
• † Murchisonia – tentative report

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  Fossilized shell of the Early Devonian – Triassic sea snail Naticopsis

  † Naticopsis
  • † Naticopsis judithae – type locality for species
  • † Naticopsis marthaae – type locality for species
  • † Naticopsis scintilla – type locality for species
  • † Naticopsis wortheniana – type locality for species
• † Neospirifer
  • † Neospirifer cameratus
  • † Neospirifer goreii
  • † Neospirifer latus
  • † Neospirifer triplicatus
• † Neuropteris
  • † Neuropteris caudata
  • † Neuropteris flexuosa
  • † Neuropteris heterophylla
  • † Neuropteris ovata
  • † Neuropteris rarinervis
  • † Neuropteris scheuchzeri
  • † Neuropteris tenuifolia
• Nucula
• † Oncagnostus
  • † Oncagnostus tumidosus

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  Restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian cartilaginous fish Orodus

  † Orodus
• † Orthoceras
• † Orygmaspis
• † Oulodus
• † Ozarkodina
• † Palaeoniscus
• † Paradycheia – type locality for genus
• † Pecopteris
  • † Pecopteris unita
• † Phillipsia – tentative report
• † Phragmolites
• † Pinnularia
• † Platyceras
• † Pleurocystites
• † Plicochonetes
• † Polygnathus
  • † Polygnathus communis
• † Prioniodus
• † Proetus
• † Pseudopolygnathus
• † Pteridosperm
• † Pterotheca

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  Life restoration of the Late Devonian placoderm fish Ptyctodus

  † Ptyctodus
• † Quadratia
• † Receptaculites
• † Remopleurides
• † Robustum – type locality for genus
  • † Robustum nodum – type locality for species
• † Rota
• † Shelbyoceras – type locality for genus
• † Sigillaria
• † Skenidioides
• Solemya
• † Spathognathodus
• † Sphaerocoryphe
• † Sphenophyllum
  • † Sphenophyllum emarginatum
  • † Sphenophyllum longifolium
  • † Sphenophyllum majus
• † Sphenopteris

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  Fossilized shell of the Late Ordovician-Late Triassic brachiopod Spirifer

  † Spirifer
  • † Spirifer marionensis
  • † Spirifer opimus
  • † Spirifer rockymontanus
• Spirorbis
• † Spyroceras
• † Strepsodiscus
• † Streptognathodus
  • † Streptognathodus clarki – type locality for species
• † Strophomena
  • † Strophomena incurvata
• † Subulites
• † Tarphyceras

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  Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Tricrepicephalus

  † Tricrepicephalus
• † Tryblidium
• † Vellamo
• † Whiteavesia
• † Wilkingia
• † Worthenia

Mesozoic

• † Acteon

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  Fossilized shell of the Early Cretaceous-Oligocene turtle Adocus

  † Adocus
• † Aenona
  • † Aenona eufaulensis
• † Albertosaurus
• † Ambigostrea
  • † Ambigostrea tecticosta
• Amuletum
• † Anatimya
  • † Anatimya anteradiata
• † Anchura
• † Anomia
  • † Anomia ornata
• † Aphrodina
  • † Aphrodina tippana
• Arrhoges

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  Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Baculites

  † Baculites
  • † Baculites tippahensis
• † Bellifusus
• † Belliscala
• † Bullopsis
  • † Bullopsis cretacea
• Caestocorbula
  • † Caestocorbula crassaplica
  • † Caestocorbula crassiplica
  • † Caestocorbula percompressa
• † Camptonectes
  • † Camptonectes bubonis
  • † Camptonectes hilgardi
• † Caveola
• Cerithiella
  • † Cerithiella semirugatum
• † Clavipholas
  • † Clavipholas pectorosa
• Cliona
• † Clisocolus

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  Shell of a Corbula basket clam

  Corbula
• Crassatella
  • † Crassatella vadosa
• † Crenella
  • † Crenella elegantula
  • † Crenella serica
• Cucullaea
  • † Cucullaea capax
• † Cymbophora
  • † Cymbophora appressa
  • † Cymbophora berryi
• † Cymella
  • † Cymella bella
• † Cyprimeria
  • † Cyprimeria alta

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  Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Discoscaphites

  † Discoscaphites
  • † Discoscaphites iris
• † Drilluta
• † Eoacteon
  • † Eoacteon linteus
• † Eoharpa
  • † Eoharpa sinuosa
• † Eubaculites
  • † Eubaculites carinatus
• † Eufistulana
  • † Eufistulana ripleyana
• † Eufistulina
• † Euspira
  • † Euspira rectilabrum

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  Interior of a fossilized shell of the Jurassic-Cretaceous foam oyster Exogyra

  † Exogyra
  • † Exogyra costata
• † Fulgerca
• Fusinus
  • † Fusinus macnairyensis – or unidentified related form
• Glycymeris
  • † Glycymeris compressa
  • † Glycymeris rotundata
• † Goniochasma – tentative report
• † Granocardium
  • † Granocardium lowei
  • † Granocardium tippananum
  • † Granocardium tippanum
• † Gryphaeostrea
  • † Gryphaeostrea vomer
• Gyrodes
  • † Gyrodes spillmani
  • † Gyrodes supraplicatus
• † Hamulus
  • † Hamulus onyx
  • † Hamulus squamosus
• † Helicaulax
  • † Helicaulax formosa
• Juliacorbula
  • † Juliacorbula monmouthensis
• † Legumen
  • † Legumen ellipticum
• † Leptosolen
  • † Leptosolen biplicata
• Lima
  • † Lima pelagica
• Limatula
  • † Limatula acutilineata
• † Linearis
  • † Linearis metastriata
• † Liopeplum
  • † Liopeplum rugosum
• † Liopistha
  • † Liopistha protexta
• † Liothyris
• † Lowenstamia
• † Lycettia
  • † Lycettia tippana
  • † Lycettia tippanus
• Malletia
  • † Malletia longfrons
  • † Malletia longifrons
• † Micrabacia
• † Morea
  • † Morea transenna

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  Life restoration of two of the Late Cretaceous Mosasaurus

  † Mosasaurus
  • † Mosasaurus hoffmanni
• † Naomichelys
• † Napulus
  • † Napulus octoliratus
• † Nemocardium
  • † Nemocardium fragile
• † Nemodon
  • † Nemodon eufalensis
  • † Nemodon eufaulensis
• Nucula
  • † Nucula camia
  • † Nucula percrassa
• Nuculana
  • † Nuculana whitfieldi
• † Opertochasma
• † Paladmete
  • † Paladmete cancellaria
• Panopea
  • † Panopea monmouthensis
• † Parmicorbula
  • † Parmicorbula percompressa
• † Parrosaurus – type locality for genus
  • † Parrosaurus missouriensis

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  Fossilized shell of the Early Triassic-Pliocene marine bivalve Pholadomya

  Pholadomya
  • † Pholadomya occidentalis
• † Pinna
  • † Pinna laqueata
• † Pleuriocardia
• † Praeleda
  • † Praeleda compar
• † Protocardia
  • † Protocardia spillmani
• Pseudomalaxis
  • † Pseudomalaxis pateriformis
• † Pterotrigonia
  • † Pterotrigonia angulicostata
  • † Pterotrigonia eufalensis
  • † Pterotrigonia eufaulensis
• † Pyropsis
• † Scambula
  • † Scambula perplana

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  Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Scaphites

  † Scaphites
• Serpula
• Striarca
  • † Striarca cuneata
  • † Striarca saffordi
• † Syncyclonema
  • † Syncyclonema simplicius
• Tellina
• † Tellinimera
  • † Tellinimera buboana
• † Tenea
  • † Tenea parilis
• † Tenuipteria
  • † Tenuipteria argentea
  • † Tenuipteria argenteus
• Trachycardium
• † Trobus
  • † Trobus buboanus

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  Fossilized shells of the Late Jurassic-modern tower snail Turritella

  Turritella
  • † Turritella bilira
  • † Turritella chalybeatensis
  • † Turritella tippana
  • † Turritella vertebroides
• † Unicardium
• † Urceolabrum
  • † Urceolabrum tuberculatum
• † Veniella
  • † Veniella conradi
• † Volutomorpha
• † Weeksia

Cenozoic

• Alligator
• † Arctodus
  • † Arctodus simus
• Bison
• † Bootherium
• Bufo
  • † Bufo woodhousei

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  Life restoration of the Pliocene-Holocene camel Camelops

  † Camelops
• Canis
  • † Canis dirus
  • † Canis latrans
• Cnemidophorus
  • † Cnemidophorus sexlineatus
• Crotalus
  • † Crotalus horridus
• Dasypus
  • † Dasypus bellus
• Elaphe
  • † Elaphe vulpina
• Equus
  • † Equus complicatus
• Geomys
• Lepus
  • † Lepus americanus
• † Mammut

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    Restoration of a Mammut americanum , or American mastodon

    † Mammut americanum
• † Mammuthus
• Marmota
• † Megalonyx
  • † Megalonyx jeffersonii – or unidentified comparable form
• Microtus
  • † Microtus ochrogaster – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Microtus pennsylvanicus
• † Mylohyus
• Neotoma
  • † Neotoma floridana
• Nerodia
  • † Nerodia sipedon
• Ochrotomys
  • † Ochrotomys nuttalli – or unidentified comparable form
• Odocoileus
  • † Odocoileus virginianus
• Panthera

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    A living Panthera onca , or jaguar

    † Panthera onca
• † Platygonus
  • † Platygonus compressus
• Procyon
  • † Procyon lotor
• Puma
  • † Puma concolor – or unidentified comparable form
• † Rana
  • † Rana pipiens
• Sceloporus
  • † Sceloporus undulatus
• Sciurus

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  Life restoration of the Pleistocene-Holocene saber-tooth cat Smilodon

  † Smilodon
• Spermophilus
• Spilogale
  • † Spilogale putorius – or unidentified comparable form
• Sylvilagus
  • † Sylvilagus aquaticus
• Synaptomys
  • † Synaptomys cooperi
• † Tanupolama
  • † Tanupolama parvus – type locality for species

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  A living Tapirus , or tapir

  Tapirus
• Urocyon

References

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