List of the prehistoric life of Ohio

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

Precambrian

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

Paleozoic

Main article: List of the Paleozoic life of Ohio

Selected Paleozoic taxa of Ohio

• † Achatella
• † Acidaspis
• † Acleistoceras – tentative report
• † Acutichiton – type locality for genus
• † Adamanterpeton – type locality for genus
  • † Adamanterpeton ohioensis – type locality for species
• † Aethaspis
• † Agnesia
• † Alethopteris
• † Ambedus – type locality for genus
• † Amphiscapha
• † Amplexopora
• † Annularia
  • † Annularia asteris
  • † Annularia radiata
  • † Annularia sphenophylloides
  • † Annularia stellata
• † Anthracodromeus
  • † Anthracodromeus longipes – type locality for species

• 

  Restoration of the face of the Carboniferous reptiliomorph Anthracosaurus

  † Anthracosaurus
• † Aphlebia
• † Archaeothyris
• † Arctinurus
• † Armenoceras
• † Artisia
• † Asterotheca
• † Athyris
• † Atrypa
  • † Atrypa reticularis
  • † Atrypa reticularus – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
• † Augustoceras
• † Aulopora
  • † Aulopora microbuccinata
• † Aviculopecten
  • † Aviculopecten appalachianus – type locality for species
  • † Aviculopecten columbianus – type locality for species
  • † Aviculopecten coxanus
  • † Aviculopecten fasciculatus
  • † Aviculopecten occidentalis
  • † Aviculopecten winchelli
• † Baldwinonus
• † Bellerophon
  • † Bellerophon jeffersonensis
  • † Bellerophon spergensis
• † Bembexia
• † Bickmorites

• 

  Life restoration of the Carboniferous amphibian Brachydectes

  † Brachydectes – type locality for genus
  • † Brachydectes newberryi – type locality for species
• † Broiliellus
• † Calamites
  • † Calamites carinatus
  • † Calamites cisti
  • † Calamites suckowi
  • † Calamites suckowii
  • † Calamites undulatus
• † Callixylon
• † Camarotoechia

• 

  Restoration of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian nautiloid cephalopod Cameroceras feeding on an Aphetoceras , while a quartet of Cyclostomiceras swim by

  † Cameroceras
• † Catenipora
• † Centroceras
• † Ceratocephala
• † Ceratopsis
• † Ceraurinus
• † Ceraurus
• † Chagrinia
• † Charactoceras
• † Chasmatopora
• † Chasmops
• † Chaunograptus
• † Chondrites
• † Chonetes

• 

  Assemblage of fossilized shells of the Ordovician brachiopod Cincinnetina

  † Cincinnetina
  • † Cincinnetina meeki
  • † Cincinnetina multisecta
• † Cladochonus
• † Cladoselache
• † Clarkesvillia
• † Climacograptus
• † Coenites
• † Colosteus
• † Columnaria
  • † Columnaria calicina
• † Composita
  • † Composita subtilita
• † Conchidium
• † Constellaria
• † Cordaites
  • † Cordaites principalis – or unidentified comparable form
• † Cornulites
  • † Cornulites flexuosus
• Craniella
• † Crepipora
• † Ctenacanthus
• † Ctenerpeton
• † Ctenospondylus
• † Cyclonema
• † Cyclopteris
• † Cypricardinia
  • † Cypricardinia indenta
• † Cyrtolites
• † Cyrtospirifer
• † Cystodictya
• † Decadocrinus
• † Diceratosaurus
  • † Diceratosaurus brevirostris – type locality for species
• † Dictyonema
• † Dinichthys
  • † Dinichthys herzeri
• † Diploceraspis
• † Diplograptus
• Discina
• † Dolichopterus

• 

  Mounted skull of the Late Devonian placoderm fish Dunkleosteus

  † Dunkleosteus
• † Ecdyceras
• † Edmondia
• † Edon
• † Eldredgeops
  • † Eldredgeops rana
• † Elita
• † Elpe
• † Elrodoceras
• † Emmonsia
• † Endoceras
• † Erettopterus
• † Erpetosaurus
• † Eucalyptocrinites
• † Euomphalus
  • † Euomphalus planodorsatus

• 

  Life restoration of Silurian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Eurypterus

  † Eurypterus
  • † Eurypterus ornatus
• † Eusauropleura – type locality for genus
• † Faberia
• † Faberoceras
• † Favosites
  • † Favosites discoideus
  • † Favosites favosus
  • † Favosites hisingeri
  • † Favosites turbinatus
• † Fayettoceras
• † Fenestella
• † Flexicalymene
  • † Flexicalymene meeki
• † Foerstia
• † Fusulina
• † Gilbertsocrinus
• † Glyptocrinus

• 

  Multiple views of a fossil of the Ordovician horn coral Grewingkia

  † Grewingkia
  • † Grewingkia rusticum
• † Hallopora
  • † Hallopora subnodosa
• † Halysites
• † Hamiltonella
• † Helcionopsis
• † Heliophyllum
  • † Heliophyllum halli
• † Helminthochiton
• † Hexagonaria
• † Hexameroceras
• † Hindia
• † Holopea
• † Holoptychus – or unidentified comparable form
• † Hyolithes
• † Icriodus
• † Iocrinus
• † Isodectes
• † Isonema

• 

  Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus .

  † Isotelus
  • † Isotelus maximus
• † Kindleoceras
• † Kionoceras
• † Kockelella
• † Lambeoceras
• † Leiosphaeridia
• † Lepidodendron
  • † Lepidodendron aculeatum
• Lingula
• † Liroceras – tentative report
• † Loxomma
  • † Loxomma lintonensis – type locality for species
• † Maelonoceras
• † Manitoulinoceras
• † Manticoceras
• † Marsupiocrinus

• 

  Life restoration of the Carboniferous amphibian Megalocephalus

  † Megalocephalus – type locality for genus
  • † Megalocephalus lineolatus – type locality for species
• † Megalograptus
• † Metaxys
• † Michelinoceras
• Modiolus
• † Molgophis – type locality for genus
• † Mucrospirifer
  • † Mucrospirifer grabaui – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Mucrospirifer mucronatus
  • † Mucrospirifer prolificus
• † Murchisonia

• 

  Fossilized shell of the Early Devonian – Triassic sea snail Naticopsis

  † Naticopsis
  • † Naticopsis comperta
  • † Naticopsis levis
• † Neospirifer
  • † Neospirifer cameratus
  • † Neospirifer dunbari
• † Neuropteris
  • † Neuropteris heterophylla
  • † Neuropteris ovata
  • † Neuropteris scheuchzeri
• † Nodonema
• Nucula
• † Nyassa
• † Odonterpeton – type locality for genus
  • † Odonterpeton triangulare – type locality for species
• † Odontopleura
• † Oestocephalus – type locality for genus
  • † Oestocephalus amphiuminum – type locality for species
• † Olenoides
• † Oncoceras

• 

  Life restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian synapsid (mammal precursor) Ophiacodon

  † Ophiacodon
  • † Ophiacodon uniformis – or unidentified comparable form
• † Orthoceras
• † Oulodus
• † Ozarkodina
  • † Ozarkodina confluens
• † Paraspirifer
• † Pattersonia
• † Pecopteris
  • † Pecopteris arborescens
  • † Pecopteris hemitelioides
  • † Pecopteris unita
• † Pentamerus
• † Petalodus

• 

  Life restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian amphibian Phlegethontia .

  † Phlegethontia – type locality for genus
  • † Phlegethontia linearis – type locality for species
  • † Phlegethontia longissima – type locality for species
• † Phragmolites
  • † Phragmolites elegans – type locality for species
• † Phylloporina
• Pinna
• † Plaesiomys
• † Platyceras
  • † Platyceras bucculentum
  • † Platyceras carinatum
  • † Platyceras rarispinum
• † Platyrhinops – type locality for genus

• 

  Fossilized shell of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Platystrophia

  † Platystrophia
  • † Platystrophia acutilirata
  • † Platystrophia annieana
  • † Platystrophia clarksvillensis
  • † Platystrophia cypha
  • † Platystrophia moritura
• † Pleurodictyum
• † Pleuroptyx – type locality for genus
• † Pleurorthoceras
• † Poleumita
• † Polygnathus
  • † Polygnathus eiflius
  • † Polygnathus linguiformis
  • † Polygnathus pseudofoliatus
  • † Polygnathus xylus
• † Posidonia
• † Proetus
• † Protobalanus
• † Protosalvinia

• 

  Life restoration with a conifer-like body plan of the Silurian-Late Devonian tree-like probable fungus Prototaxites . John William Dawson (1888).

  † Prototaxites
• † Pterochiton
• † Pterotheca
• † Pterygotus
• † Ptyonius
  • † Ptyonius marshii – type locality for species
• † Pugnax
• † Reteocrinus
• † Rhizocorallium
• † Richmondoceras
• † Rusophycus
• † Samaropsis
• † Sauropleura – type locality for genus
  • † Sauropleura pectinata – type locality for species
• † Sigillaria
  • † Sigillaria brardii
  • † Sigillaria elegans
• † Similodonta – tentative report
• Solemya
• † Solenomorpha
• † Sowerbyella

• 

  Fossilized leaves and branches of the Devonian-Triassic horsetail relative Sphenophyllum

  † Sphenophyllum
  • † Sphenophyllum majus
  • † Sphenophyllum oblongifolium
• † Sphenopteris
  • † Sphenopteris elegans – or unidentified comparable form
• † Sphenothallus
• † Spirifer
  • † Spirifer opimus
• Spirorbis
• † Spyroceras
• † Stegops

• 

  Life restorations of a male (foreground) and female (background) of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Stethacanthus

  † Stethacanthus
  • † Stethacanthus altonensis
• † Stigmatella
• † Strophomena
  • † Strophomena concordensis
  • † Strophomena erratica
  • † Strophomena extenuata
  • † Strophomena neglecta
  • † Strophomena nutans
  • † Strophomena planumbona
  • † Strophomena sulcata
• † Stylonema
• † Subulites
• † Syntomopterus
• † Syringopora – tentative report
• † Teichichnus
• † Tentaculites
• † Tetradium
• † Tornoceras
• † Treptoceras
• † Triarthrus
• † Triendoceras – tentative report
• † Trocholites

• 

  Life restoration of the Carboniferous amphibian Tuditanus

  † Tuditanus – type locality for genus
  • † Tuditanus punctulatus – type locality for species
• † Urasterella
• † Vinella
• † Walchia
• † Westonoceras
• † Whiteavesia
• † Wilkingia
• † Worthenia
• † Wurmiella
  • † Wurmiella excavata
• † Xyloiulus
• † Zittelloceras
• † Zoophycos

Mesozoic

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

Cenozoic

• Acella
  • † Acella haldermani
• Amnicola
• † Arctodus
  • † Arctodus simus
• † Bembidium
  • † Bembidium fragmentum – type locality for species
• Castor
  • † Castor canadensis

• 

  Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Pleistocene giant beaver Castoroides

  † Castoroides
  • † Castoroides ohioensis
• † Cervalces
  • † Cervalces scotti
• Clethrionomys
  • † Clethrionomys gapperi
• Equus
• Erethizon
  • † Erethizon dorsatum
• Fossaria
• Gyraulus
  • † Gyraulus deflectus
  • † Gyraulus parvus
• Helisoma
  • † Helisoma anceps
• Helophorus
  • † Helophorus rigescens – type locality for species
• † Hydrochus
  • † Hydrochus amictus – type locality for species
• Lucina
• Lymnaea
• † Mammut

  • 

    Restoration of a Mammut americanum , or American mastodon

    † Mammut americanum
• † Megalonyx
  • † Megalonyx jeffersonii
• † Meomphix
• Microtus
  • † Microtus xanthognathus
• Mictomys
  • † Mictomys borealis
• Mustela
  • † Mustela americana
  • † Mustela richardsonii
• Odocoileus

  • 

    A living Odocoileus virginianus , or white-tailed deer

    † Odocoileus virginianus
• Ondatra
  • † Ondatra zibethicus
• Pekania
  • † Pekania pennanti
• Phenacomys
  • † Phenacomys intermedius
• Physa
  • † Physa heterostropha – or unidentified comparable form
• Picea
• Planorbis

• 

  Restoration of a herd of alarmed Miocene-Pleistocene peccaries of the genus Platygonus . Charles R. Knight (1922).

  † Platygonus
  • † Platygonus compressus
• Promenetus
  • † Promenetus exacuous
• Pterostichus
  • † Pterostichus dormitans – type locality for species
• Rangifer
  • † Rangifer tarandus
• Sorex
  • † Sorex cinereus
  • † Sorex hoyi
• Sphaerium
• Stagnicola
  • † Stagnicola lanceata
• Ursus

  • 

    A living Ursus arctos , or brown bear

    † Ursus arctos – type locality for species
• Valvata
  • † Valvata tricarinata

References

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