List of the prehistoric life of Michigan
This list of the prehistoric life of Michigan contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Michigan.
Precambrian
The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Michigan.
Paleozoic
Selected Paleozoic taxa of Michigan
- †Acidaspis
- †Actinoceras
- †Alethopteris
- †Annularia
Fossil of the Carboniferous horsetail relative Annularia - †Athyris
- †Atrypa
- †Aulopora
- †Bellerophon
- †Calamites
- †Callixylon
- †Calymene
- †Camarotoechia
- †Ceraurus
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician trilobite Ceraurus - †Chonetes
- †Climacograptus
- †Columnaria
- †Cordaites
- †Cornulites
- †Cornulites corrugatus
- †Cornulites flexuosus
- †Cornulites sterlingensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Cyclonema
- †Cyrtolites
- †Eldredgeops
- †Encrinurus
- †Endoceras
- †Erieopterus
- †Favosites
- †Flexicalymene
Flexicalymene enrolled- †Flexicalymene croneisi
- †Flexicalymene magnipapilla – type locality for species
- †Flexicalymene meeki – or unidentified comparable form
- †Flexicalymene planilabra – type locality for species
- †Flexicalymene praelongicephala – type locality for species
- †Flexicalymene quadricapita – type locality for species
- †Flexicalymene senaria
- †Gilbertsocrinus
- †Girvanella
- †Grewingkia
- †Grewingkia canadensis
- †Hallopora
- †Halysites
- †Hexagonaria
Fossil of the Devonian colonial rugose coral Hexagonaria, also known as a Petoskey stone - †Hindia
- †Holopea
- †Icriodus
- †Isotelus
- †Isotelus gigas
- †Lepidodendron
- †Lepidodendron aculeatum
- †Lepidodendron Brittsii
- †Lepidodendron dichotomum
- †Lepidodendron lanceolatum
- †Lepidodendron lycopodiodes
- †Lepidodendron obovatum
- †Lepidodendron obvatum
- †Lepidodendron ophiurioides
- †Lepidodendron vestitum
- †Lepidostrobus
- †Lingula
- †Maelonoceras
- †Meristella
- †Mucrospirifer
Fossilized shell of the Devonian brachiopod Mucrospirifer - †Murchisonia
- †Naticopsis
- †Neuropteris
Fronds of the Carboniferous seed fern Neuropteris- †Neuropteris caudata
- †Neuropteris dilitata
- †Neuropteris flexuosa
- †Neuropteris gigntea – tentative report
- †Neuropteris harrisi – or unidentified comparable form
- †Neuropteris heterophylla – or unidentified comparable form
- †Neuropteris obliqua
- †Neuropteris rarinervis
- †Neuropteris saginawensis
- †Neuropteris scheuchzeri
- †Neuropteris Schlehani
- †Neuropteris tenuifolia
- †Nodonema
- †Nowakia
- †Nuculoidea
- †Ogygites
- †Oncoceras
- †Orthoceras
- †Panenka
- †Paraspirifer
- †Pecopteris
- †Pentamerus
- †Phragmolites
- †Plaesiomys
- †Platyceras
Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic sea snail Platyceras - †Platystrophia
- †Platystrophia acutilirata
- †Platystrophia annieana
- †Platystrophia clarkesvillensis
- †Platystrophia clarksvillensis
- †Platystrophia cypha – or unidentified related form
- †Platystrophia moritura
- †Pleurodictyum
- †Polygnathus
- †Proetus
Restoration of the Silurian trilobite Proetus - †Samaropsis
- †Scenella – tentative report
- †Scutellum
- †Sigillaria
- †Sphenophyllum
- †Sphenopteris
- †Spirifer – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Spyroceras
- †Stethacanthus
Life restorations of a male (foreground) and female (background) of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Stethacanthus - †Stigmaria
- †Stigmatella
- †Strophomena
- †Strophomena alpenensis
- †Strophomena costata
- †Strophomena crassa
- †Strophomena elongata
- †Strophomena erratica
- †Strophomena extenuata
- †Strophomena heteromys
- †Strophomena huronensis
- †Strophomena inaequiradiata
- †Strophomena levidensa
- †Strophomena neglecta
- †Strophomena nutans – or unidentified comparable form
- †Strophomena parvula
- †Strophomena pentagonia
- †Strophomena planumbona
- †Strophomena potterensis
- †Strophomena sulcata
- †Strophomena tenuicosta
- †Strophomena titan
- †Syringopora
- †Tentaculites
- †Tetradium
- †Triarthrus
Restoration showing the top (left) and underside of the Late Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus
Mesozoic
The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Mesozoic fossils in Michigan.
Cenozoic
- Abies
- Acer
- †Achnanthes
- †Achnanthes biasolettiana
- †Achnanthes exigua
- Alces
A living Alces, or moose - Alnus
- †Ambrosia
- Amnicola
- †Amnicola integra
- †Amnicola limosa
- †Amphora
- †Amphora perpusilla
- Anodonta
- †Anodonta grandis – or unidentified comparable form
- Aplodinotus
- †Aplodinotus grunniens – or unidentified comparable form
- †Armiger
- †Artemesia
- †Artemisia
- Aythya
- †Aythya affinis
- †Bakerilymnea
- †Bakerilymnea dalli
- Betula
- Bufo
- †Bufo americanus
A living Anaxyrus americanus (formerly Bufo americanus), or American toad
- Candona
- †Candona caudata
- †Candona paraohioensis
- †Candona rawsoni
- Canis
- Carya
- Carychium
- Castor
- †Castor canadensis
- †Castoroides
Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Pleistocene giant beaver Castoroides - †Catinella
- †Catostomus
- †Cervalces
- †Cionella
- †Columella
- †Cymbella
- †Cymbella diluviana
- †Cytherissa
- †Cytherissa lacustris
- Dicrostonyx
- Discus
- †Discus cronkhitei
- Dryopteris
- Esox
- †Esox lucius
Illustration of a living Esox lucius, or northern pike
- Ferrissia
- †Ferrissia fragilis
- †Ferrissia paralellelus
- Fossaria
- †Fossaria decampi
- †Fragilaria
- †Fragilaria brevistriata
- †Fragilaria construens
- †Fragilaria lapponica
- †Fragillaria
- †Fragillaria pinnata
- †Fraxinus
- Grus
- †Grus americana
A living Grus americana, or whooping crane
- Gryaulus
- †Gryaulus parvus
- Gyraulus
- †Gyraulus deflectus
- †Gyraulus parvus
- Helisoma
- Hendersonia
- †Hendersonia occulta
- Juglans
- Larix
- Lemmus
- †Lemmus trimucronatus – or unidentified comparable form
- Limnocythere
- †Limnocythere varia
- Lioplax
- †Lioplax suculosa – or unidentified comparable form
- Lycopodium
- Lymnaea
- †Mammut
- †Mammuthus
- †Mammuthus columbi
- †Mammuthus primigenius
Life restorations of a Mammut americanum, or American mastodon (right), and a Mammuthus primigenius, or wooly mammoth (left)
- Meleagris
- Microtus
- Mictomys
- †Mictomys borealis
- Mustela
- Myodes
- †Navicula
- †Navicula graciloides
- †Navicula minima
- †Navicula modica
- †Navicula subrotundata
- Odocoileus
- †Odocoileus virginianus
A living Odocoileus virginianus, or white-tailed deer
- Ondatra
- Ostrya
- †Pediastrum
- Perca
- Peromyscus
- Physella
- Picea
- Pinus
- Pisidium
- †Pisidium compressum
- †Pisidium dubium
- †Pisidium idahoense
- †Pisidium milium
- †Pisidium nitidum
- †Pisidium variabile
- †Pisidium ventricosum
- †Planorbella
- †Planorbella campanulata
- †Platygonus
Restoration of a herd of alarmed Miocene-Pleistocene peccaries of the genus Platygonus. Charles R. Knight (1922). - †Pomoxis – or unidentified comparable form
- Populus
- †Probythinella
- †Probythinella lacustris
- Pteridium
- Pungitius
- †Pungitius pungitius – or unidentified comparable form
- Quercus
- †Rana
- Rangifer
- Salix
- †Selaginella
- †Shepherdia
- Sorex
- Sphaerium
- †Sphaerium striatinum
- Sphagnum
- Stagnicola
- †Thalictrum
- †Thuja
- Tilia
- †Tsuga
- Typha
- Ulmus
- Ursus
- †Ursus americanus
A living Ursus americanus, or American black bear
- Vallonia
- Valvata
- Vertigo
- †Vertigo alpestris
- †Vertigo elatior
- †Vertigo gouldi – or unidentified comparable form
- †Vertigo hannai
- †Vertigo modesta
- †Vertigo morsei
- †Vertigo ovata
- †Vertigo paradoxa
- Vitis
Leaves and fruit of a living Vitis, or grapevine - Zapus
- †Zapus hudsonius – or unidentified comparable form
- Zonitoides
- †Zonitoides aboreas
References
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 7 August 2017.
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