List of the prehistoric life of Indiana
This list of the prehistoric life of Indiana contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Indiana.
Precambrian
The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Indiana.
Paleozoic
Selected Paleozoic taxa of Indiana
- †Abrotocrinus
Fossilized calyx of the Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Abrotocrinus - †Achistrum
- †Achistrum brevis – type locality for species
- †Achistrum ludwigi
- †Achistrum nicholsoni
- †Achistrum triassicum
- †Acidaspis
- † Acrophyllum
- †Actinocrinites
- †Actinocrinites gibsoni
- †Actinocrinites grandissimus
- †Actinocrinites lobatus – tentative report
- †Actinocrinites lowei
- †Agaricocrinus
- †Aipoceras – tentative report
- †Alethopteris
Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris - Ammodiscus
- †Ammonellipsites
- †Amplexopora
- †Amplexus
- †Anchiopsis
- †Angustidontus
- †Annularia
- †Aphlebia
- †Archimedes
Fossils of the Carboniferous-Permian bryozoan Archimedes- †Archimedes communis
- †Archimedes compactus
- †Archimedes distans
- †Archimedes intermedius
- †Archimedes invaginatus
- †Archimedes lativolvis
- †Archimedes macfarlani
- †Archimedes meekanoides
- †Archimedes meekanus
- †Archimedes negligens – or unidentified comparable form
- †Archimedes proutanus
- †Archimedes swallovanus
- †Archimedes swallowvanus
- †Archimedes symmetricus
- †Archimedes terebriformis
- †Arctinurus
- †Armenoceras
- †Artisia
- †Asterotheca
- †Asteroxylon
Life restoration of the Early Devonian club moss relative Asteroxylon - †Athyris
- †Atrypa
- †Atrypa newsomensis
- †Atrypa parva – or unidentified comparable form
- †Atrypa reticularis
- †Atrypa reticularus
- †Aulacophyllum
- †Aulopora
- †Aviculopecten
- † Avonia – tentative report
- † Avonia
- †Bellerophon
Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic mollusc Bellerophon- †Bellerophon gibsoni – type locality for species
- †Bellerophon jeffersonensis
- †Bellerophon spergensis – type locality for species
- †Bembexia
- †Beyrichoceras
- †Bordonia
- †Bumastus
- †Bumastus armatus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Bumastus insignis
- †Bumastus ioxus
- †Bumastus niagarense – or unidentified comparable form
- †Calamites
- †Callipteridium
Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous seed fern Callipteridium - †Callixylon
- †Calymene
- †Camarotoechia
- †Camarotoechia gregaria – tentative report
- †Camarotoechia horsfordi
- †Camarotoechia mutata
- †Camarotoechia neglecta – or unidentified comparable form
- †Camarotoechia pisa
- †Camarotoechia tethys
- †Carcinosoma
Fossil of the Silurian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Carcinosoma - †Caseodus
- †Caseodus eatoni – type locality for species
- †Ceramopora
- †Ceraurinus
- †Ceraurus
- †Chancelloria
- †Charactoceras
- †Cheirurus
- †Chomatodus
- †Chondrites
- †Chonetes
- †Cincinnetina
- †Cladochonus
- †Cleiothyridina
Fossilized shell of the Middle Devonian-Permian brachiopod Cleiothyridina - †Clorinda – tentative report
- †Coenites
- †Coenites brownsportensis
- †Coenites cryptodens – or unidentified comparable form
- †Coenites laqueata – or unidentified comparable form
- †Coenites rectilineatus
- †Columnaria
- †Composita
- †Conchidium
- †Conocardium
- †Conocardium richmondense – type locality for species
- †Constellaria
Fossil of the Ordovician bryozoan Constellaria - †Coolinia
- †Cordaites
- †Cornulites
- †Coronura
- †Crania
- †Craniops
- †Crotalocrinites
- †Cyathocrinites
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Fossilized calyx and partial stem of the Silurian-Permian crinoid ("sea lily") Cyathocrinites- †Cyathocrinites glenni – or unidentified comparable form
- †Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus
- †Cyathocrinites parvibrachiatus
- †Cyathocrinites pauli
- †Cyathocrinites sanduskyensis
- †Cyathocrinites striatissimus
- †Cyathocrinites wilsoni
- †Cyclonema
- †Cyclopteris
- †Cyphaspis
- †Cypricardinia
- †Cyrtolites
- †Cyrtospirifer
- †Cystodictya
- †Dalmanites
Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Middle Devonian trilobite Dalmanites - †Danaea
- †Decadocrinus
- †Dicoelosia
- †Dictyonema
- †Dimerocrinites
- †Dinicthys
- †Dizygocrinus
- †Dizygocrinus indianaensis
- †Dizygocrinus indianensis
- †Dizygocrinus venustus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Dizygocrinus whitei – or unidentified comparable form
- †Drepanopterus
- †Edestus
Life restoration of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Edestus - †Edmondia
- †Eldredgeops
- †Elytron
- †Emmonsia
- †Encrinurus
- Eocaudina
- †Eodictyonella
- †Eospirifer
- †Eretmocrinus
- †Eretmocrinus cassedayanus – tentative report
- †Eretmocrinus magnificus
- †Erieopterus
- †Eucalyptocrinites
- †Eucalyptocrinites caelatus
- †Eucalyptocrinites crassus
- †Eucalyptocrinites tuberculatus
- †Favosites
Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites- †Favosites arbor
- †Favosites baculus
- †Favosites biloculi
- †Favosites clelandi
- †Favosites cristatus
- †Favosites discoideus
- †Favosites favosus
- †Favosites forbesi
- †Favosites forbsei
- †Favosites goodwini
- †Favosites hisingeri
- †Favosites hispidus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Favosites impeditus
- †Favosites mundus
- †Favosites niagarensis
- †Favosites occidentalis
- †Favosites patellatus – type locality for species
- †Favosites pirum
- †Favosites placentus
- †Favosites proximatus
- †Favosites quercus
- †Favosites ramulosus
- †Favosites rotundituba
- †Favosites spinigerus
- †Favosites turbinatus
- †Fayettoceras
- †Fenestella
- †Fletcheria
- †Flexicalymene
- †Gilbertsocrinus
- †Glikmanius
Life restoration of the Carboniferous shark Glikmanius - †Glyptambon
- †Glyptocrinus
- †Gomphoceras
- †Greenops
- †Grewingkia
- †Grewingkia canadensis
- †Grewingkia rusticum
- †Hallopora
- †Halysites
Fossil of the Ordovician-Silurian tabulate coral Halysites - †Harpidium – tentative report
- †Heliophyllum
- †Hexagonaria
Fossil of the Devonian colonial rugose coral Hexagonaria, also known as a Petoskey stone - †Hexameroceras
- †Hindia
- †Holopea
- †Hyolithes
- †Icriodus
- †Illaenus
- †Iniopteryx
Life restoration of the Carboniferous Chimaera relative Iniopteryx - †Iocrinus
- †Isotelus
- †Isotelus gigas
- †Isotelus maximus
- †Kindleoceras
- †Kingstonia
- †Kionoceras
- †Kokomopterus
- †Lambeoceras
- †Lepidodendron
Restoration of the Carboniferous-Late Triassic club moss relative Lepidodendron. Eli Heimans (1911).- †Lepidodendron aculeatum
- †Lepidodendron dichotomum
- †Lepidodendron lanceolatum – tentative report
- †Lepidodendron obovatum
- †Lepidodendron vestitum
- †Lepidophyllum
- †Lepidostrobus
- †Lichas
- †Lingula
- †Llanoaspis – tentative report
- †Manitoulinoceras
- †Marsupiocrinus
- †Martinia
- †Melonechinus
- †Meristella
- †Meristina
- †Microplasma
- †Mucrospirifer
- †Murchisonia
- †Natica
- †Naticopsis
- †Naticopsis carleyana – type locality for species
- †Neuropteris
Fossilized frond of the Carboniferous seed fern Neuropteris - †Odontopleura – tentative report
- †Oncoceras
- †Onychocrinus
- †Onychopterella
- †Oonoceras
- †Ornithoprion – type locality for genus
- †Orodus
Restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian cartilaginous fish Orodus - †Palmatolepis
- †Paolia – type locality for genus
- †Paraspirifer
- †Pecopteris
- †Pelagiella
- †Pentagonia
- †Pentameroceras
- †Pentamerus
- †Pentremites
- †Periastron
- †Periechocrinus
- †Phacops
Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Late Devonian trilobite Phacops - †Phillipsia
- †Phragmolites
- †Pinna
- †Pinnularia
- †Plaesiomys
- †Platyceras
- †Platycrinites
- †Platystrophia
- †Plectodonta
- †Pleurodictyum
- †Pleurorthoceras
- †Poleumita
- †Polygnathus
- †Polysacos – type locality for genus
- Priscopedatus
- †Proetus
- †Protochonetes – tentative report
- †Protosalvinia
- †Psaronius
- †Pteria
- †Pterotheca
- †Pterygotus
Life restoration of the Silurian-Middle Devonian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Pterygotus - †Quasillites – tentative report
- †Retzia
- †Rhadinichthys
- †Rhynchonella
- †Richmondoceras – type locality for genus
- †Rineceras
- †Rota
- †Samaropsis
- †Sandalodus
- †Scytalocrinus
- †Sidetes
- †Sigillaria
Fossilized stump of the Carboniferous-Permian club moss relative Sigillaria - †Skenidioides
- †Sowerbyella
- †Spathognathodus
- †Sphaerexochus
- †Sphaerocodium
- †Sphenophyllum
- †Sphenopteris
- †Spirifer
- Spirorbis
- †Spyroceras
- †Stethacanthus
Life restorations of a male (foreground) and female (background) of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Stethacanthus - †Stigmaria
- †Stigmatella
- †Strophomena
- †Syringopora
- †Taxocrinus
- †Tentaculites
- †Tetradium
- †Thalassinoides
- †Treptoceras
- †Tricrepicephalus
- †Trimerus
- †Zittelloceras
- †Zoophycos
Mesozoic
The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Mesozoic fossils in Indiana.
Cenozoic
- Acer
- †Aepycamelus – or unidentified comparable form
Life restoration of the Miocene camel Aepycamelus, or the long-necked camel. Heinrich Harder (1920). - Alces
- †Arctodus
- †Bensonomys
- †Bensonomys hershkovitzi – type locality for species
- †Bootherium
- †Borophagus
- †Bryum
- Bufo
- Candona
- †Candona crogmaniana – or unidentified comparable form
- †Candona elliptica – or unidentified related form
- Canis
- †Canis dirus – or unidentified comparable form
Modern mounted skeleton of Canis lupus, the grey wolf, to scale with a fossilized skeleton of the Pleistocene wolf Canis dirus, or dire wolf - †Canis latrans – or unidentified comparable form
- †Canis lupus
- †Carex
- Carya
- Chara
- Chelydra
- †Chelydra serpentina – or unidentified comparable form
- Chrysemys
- †Chrysemys picta – or unidentified comparable form
- Coluber
- Comptonia – or unidentified comparable form
- Cyperus
- Cypridopsis
- †Cypridopsis okeechobei – or unidentified related form
- †Cypridopsis vidua – or unidentified comparable form
- Elaphe
- Emydoidea
- †Emydoidea blandingii – or unidentified comparable form
- Equus
- †Equus complicatus – or unidentified comparable form
- Fagus
- †Fagus grandifolia – or unidentified comparable form
- Geomys
- †Geomys adamsi – or unidentified comparable form
- †Geomys bursarius – or unidentified comparable form
- †Hemiauchenia – or unidentified comparable form
- †Hesperotestudo
- †Hypolagus
- †Hypolagus fontinalis – or unidentified comparable form
- Lynx
- †Lynx rufus – or unidentified comparable form
- Lyonia – or unidentified comparable form
- †Mammut
- †Mammut americanum
Restoration of a Mammut americanum, or American mastodon
- Marmota
- Mephitis
- Microtus
- †Microtus ochrogaster – or unidentified comparable form
- Mustela
- †Mylohyus
- Neotoma
- †Neotoma floridana – or unidentified comparable form
- Nerodia
- †Nerodia erythrogaster – or unidentified comparable form
- Odocoileus
- †Odocoileus virginianus
A living Odocoileus virginianus, or white-tailed deer
- Ogmodontomys
- †Ogmodontomys pipecreekensis – type locality for species
- †Oxalis
- †Paleoheterodon
- †Paleoheterodon tiheni
- Panthera
- †Paracoluber
- †Paracoluber storei
- Parascalops
- Peromyscus
- †Peromyscus leucopus – or unidentified comparable form
- Platanus
- †Platygonus
Restoration of a herd of alarmed Miocene-Pleistocene peccaries of the genus Platygonus. Charles R. Knight (1922).- †Platygonus vetus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Plionarctos
- †Plionarctos edensis
- †Pliophenacomys
- †Pliophenacomys koenigswaldi – type locality for species
- Polygonum
- Populus
- †Populus deltoides – or unidentified comparable form
- †Potamocypris
- †Potamocypris unicaudata – or unidentified related form
- †Potamogeton
- †Potentilla
- †Rana
- †Rana catesbeiana – or unidentified comparable form
- Rumex
- Salix
- †Scirpus
- †Smilodon
Life restoration of the Pleistocene-Holocene saber-tooth cat Smilodon - Spermophilus
- †Spermophilus howelli
- Spilogale
- †Spilogale putorius – or unidentified comparable form
- †Symmetrodontomys
- †Symmetrodontomys daamsi – type locality for species
- Synaptomys
- †Teleoceras
Restoration of the Miocene-Pliocene rhinoceros Teleoceras - Thamnophis
- Trachemys
- †Trachemys scripta – or unidentified comparable form
- Urocyon
- †Urocyon cinereoargenteus
- Ursus
- †Ursus americanus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Verbena
- †Viola
- Vitis
- Vulpes
- †Xanthium
References
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 7 August 2017.
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