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.