List of the prehistoric life of Pennsylvania
This list of the prehistoric life of Pennsylvania contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Pennsylvania.
Precambrian
[edit]The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Pennsylvania.
Paleozoic
[edit]Selected Paleozoic taxa of Pennsylvania
[edit]- †Acidaspis
- †Agnostus
- †Alethopteris
- †Amphiscapha
- †Aphthoroblattina
- †Archaeopteris
- †Archimylacris
- †Asaphiscus
- †Athyris
- †Atrypa
- †Aviculopecten
- †Barinophyton
- †Bathyuriscus
- †Bellerophon
- †Bembexia
- †Beyrichoceratoides
- †Blattoidea
- †Bonneterrina
Life restoration of the Late Devonian placoderm fish Bothriolepis - †Byronia
- †Callixylon
- †Camarotoechia
- †Camptostroma
- †Cavusgnathus
- †Ceramopora
- †Ceratopsis
- †Chancelloria
- †Chancia
- †Chonetes
- †Cincinnetina
- †Cleiothyridina
- †Climacograptus
Coccosteus cuspidatus restoration, shown attacking multiple Palaeospondylus' - †Coelacanthus
- †Composita
- †Conotheca
- †Coosella
- †Coosia
- †Cordaites
- †Cornulites
- †Craniops
- †Crepicephalus
- †Ctenerpeton – type locality for genus
- †Ctenopterus
- †Cyclonema
Fossilized foliage from the Carboniferous seed fern Cyclopteris - †Cypricardinia
- †Cyrtospirifer
- †Dawsonia
- †Deckera
- †Densignathus – type locality for genus
- †Diplocaulus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Diploceraspis
- †Diplograptus
Life restoration of the Permian synapsid (mammal precursor) Edaphosaurus - †Edmondia
- †Eldredgeops
- †Elita
- †Elrathia
- †Elrathina
- †Endolobus
- †Eoagnostus
- †Erettopterus
- †Eryops
- †Esmeraldina
- †Euomphalus
Life restoration of the Devonian lobe-finned fish Eusthenodon - E. bourdoni – type locality for species[1]
Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites - †Fenestella
- †Ganorhynchus
- †Genevievella
- †Glaukerpeton – type locality for genus
- †Glyptocrinus
- †Gnathodus
- †Gravicalymene
- †Greenops
- †Hallipterus
- †Hardieopterus
- †Hazelia
- †Helcionella
- †Hexactinellid
- †Hindeodus
- †Holonema
- †Holopea
- †Holoptychius
- †Holoptychus
- †Hughmilleria
- †Hymenocaris
Life restoration of the Late Devonian four-limbed animal precursor Hynerpeton - †Hynerpeton bassetti – type locality for species
Life restoration of the Late Devonian lobe-finned fish Hyneria - †Hyneria lindae – type locality for species
- †Hyolithellus
- †Hyolithes
- †Hyolithid
- †Indiana – tentative report
- †Iocrinus
- †Irvingella
- †Isodectes
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. - †Kiaeropterus
- †Kingstonia
- †Kladognathus
- †Kootenia
- †Kutorgina
- †Lancastria
- †Langlieria
- †L. radiatus – type locality for species
- †L. smalingi – type locality for species[2]
- †Lepidostrobus
- †Leptomitus
- †Lenisicaris
Appendage of the Cambrian radiodont Lenisicaris
- Lingula
- †Lingulella
- †Llanoaspidella – type locality for genus
- †Llanoaspis – tentative report
- †Lonchocephalus
Life restoration of the Permian snake-like amphibian Lysorophus showing speculative egg-coiling behavior - †Margaretia
- †Martinia
- †Megalograptus – tentative report
- †Megamolgophis
- †Metacoceras
- †Michelinoceras
- †Micromitra
- †Mimagoniatites – tentative report
- †Mucrospirifer
- †Nanahughmilleria
- †Naticopsis
Fossilized shell of the Carboniferous-Permian brachiopod Neospirifer - †Neuropteris
- †Nisusia
- Nucula
- †Ogygopsis
- †Olenellus
- †Olenoides
- †Orthacanthus
- †Orthoceras
- †Orthotheca
- †Oryctocephalus
Restoration - †Oulodus
- †Ozarkodina
- †Paedeumias
- †Pagetia
- †Paladin
- †Panenka
- †Parahughmilleria
- †Paraspirifer
- †Paterina
- †Pelagiella
- †Pemphigaspis
- †Pentremites
- †Peronopsis
- †Petalodus
Fossil of the Devonian trilobite Phacops rana - Pinna
- †Platyceras
- †Pleurodictyum
- †Proetus
- †Protobarinophyton
- †Protocaris
- †Protospongia – tentative report
- †Pugnax
- †Quasillites
- †Rhinocarcinosoma
- †Rhodea
- †Ribeiria
- †Ruedemannipterus
- †Salterella
Fossilized fin of the Devonian lobe-finned fish Sauripterus - †Schaefferia (Paleozoic plant) – or unidentified comparable form
- †Schizodiscus
- †Sciadophyton
- †Selkirkia
- †Sidneyia
- †Sigillaria
- †Solenochilus
- †Sowerbyella
- †Spathognathodus
- †Spirifer
- †Spyroceras
- †Strophomena
- †Taeniocrada
- †Tentaculites
Diagram of the branches of the Middle-Late Devonian vascular plant Tetraxylopteris - †Titusvillia – type locality for genus
- †Triarthrus
- †Tricrepicephalus
- †Trimerus
- †Tubulella
- †Tuzoia
- †Urasterella
- †Vinella
- †Wanneria
- †Wilkingia
- †Worthenia
- †Yochelcionella
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Mesozoic
[edit]- †Anchisauripus
- †Anchisauripus gwyneddensis – type locality for species
- †Anchisauripus poolei – type locality for species
- †Anchisauripus sillimani
Fossil (right) of the Early Jurassic dinosaur footprint ichnogenus Anomoepus - †Apatopus
- †Atreipus
- †Batrachopus
- †Belodon
- †Brachychirotherium
- †Brontozoum
- †Calamops – type locality for genus
- †Calamops paludosus – type locality for species
- †Chirotherium
Fossil of the Late Triassic shark Carinacanthus - †Carinacanthus jepseni – type locality for species
- †Cionichthys
- †Clepsysaurus – type locality for genus
- †Clepsysaurus pennsylvanicus – type locality for species
- †Clepsysaurus veatleianus
- †Dinophyton
Fossil of the Late Triassic coelacanth Diplurus - †Dipterus
- †Eubrontes
- †Grallator
- †Gwyneddichnium – type locality for genus
- †Gwyneddichnium majore – type locality for species
- †Gwyneddosaurus – type locality for genus
- †Gwyneddosaurus erici – type locality for species
- †Koskinonodon
Fossilized skeleton of the Middle Triassic amphibian Mastodonsaurus - †Mastodonsaurus durus – type locality for species
- †Orthodactylus
- †Orthodactylus howelli – type locality for species
- †Otozoum – tentative report
- †Pagiophyllum
- †Palaeoctonus
- †Palaeosaurus
- †Palaeosaurus fraserianus – type locality for species
- †Platypterna
- †Platypterna lockatong – type locality for species
- †Pterodactylus
- †Pterodactylus longispinis – type locality for species
- †Revueltosaurus
- †Rhynchosauroides
Life restoration of the Late Triassic phytosaur Rutiodon - †Scoyenia
- †Sphodrosaurus – type locality for genus
- †Sphodrosaurus pennsylvanicus – type locality for species
- †Suchoprion
- †Synorichthys
- †S. cf. stewarti
- †Turseodus
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Cenozoic
[edit]- Acidota
Illustration of an Aegialia dung beetle - Agonum
- Amara
- Apalone
- †Apalone mutica – tentative report
- Aphodius
- †Aphodius precursor – type locality for species
- Apion
Restoration of an Arctodus, or short-faced bear, with a human to scale - †Arctodus pristinus – type locality for species
- Arpedium
- †Ateuchus – tentative report
- Bembidion
- †Bembidion anguliferum group informal
- †Bembidion fortestriatum
- †Bembidion frontale
- †Bembidion incertum group informal
- †Bembidion morulum
- †Bembidion mutatum
- †Bembidion pseudocautum
- †Bembidion versicolor – or unidentified comparable form
- Blarina
A living Blarina brevicauda, or northern short-tailed shrew - †Blarina carolinensis
- Bledius
- Blethisa
- Boreaphilus
- †Brachyprotoma
- †Brachyprotoma obtusata – type locality for species
- Bufo
- Canis
- †Canis armbrusteri
Modern mounted skeleton of Canis lupus, the grey wolf, to scale with a fossilized skeleton of the Pleistocene wolf Canis dirus, or dire wolf
- Carabus
- †Cariacus
- †Cariacus laevicornis – type locality for species
- Carphoborus
- Castor
- †Castoroides
- Catops
- †Cervalces
- Chlaenius
- †Chlaenius punctulatus – type locality for species
- Colinus
- Coluber
- †Coluber acuminatus – type locality for species
- †Coluber constrictor
- Colymbetes
A living Crocuta crocuta, or spotted hyena - †Crocuta inexpectatus – type locality for species
- Crotalus
- Curimopsis
- †Curimopsis moosilauke – or unidentified comparable form
- †Cychrus
- †Cychrus minor – type locality for species
- †Cychrus wheatleyi – type locality for species
- Cymindis
- †Cymindis aurora – type locality for species
- †Cymindis cribricollis
- Cytilus
A preserved Diacheila ground beetle - Dicaelus
- †Dicaelus alutaceus – type locality for species
- Donacia
- Dyschirius
- †Dyschirius integer group informal
- †Dyschirius melancholicus
- Elaphe
- Elaphrus
- Emydoidea
A living Emys blandingii, or Blanding's turtle
- Enochrus
- Equus
- Erethizon
- Eucnecosum
- Glyptemys
- Gulo
- Gymnusa
- Harpalus
- Helophorus
- †Hesperotestudo
- †Hesperotestudo percrassa – type locality for species
- Heterodon
- Holoboreaphilus
- Homo
- Hydraena
- Hydroporus
- Hyla
A living Pseudacris crucifer (formerly Hyla crucifer), or spring peeper
- Lampropeltis
- Lasiopodomys – tentative report
- Lesteva
- Lontra
- Loricera
- Lynx
- †Lynx calcaratus – type locality for species
- †Mammut
- †Mammuthus
Life restorations of a Mammut americanum, or American mastodon (right), and a Mammuthus primigenius, or wooly mammoth (left)
- Mantura
- Marmota
- †Marmota monax – or unidentified comparable form
- †Megalonyx
- Meleagris
- Mephitis
- Microedus
- Microtus
- †Microtus guildayi – or unidentified comparable form
Restoration of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Miracinonyx, or American cheetah - †Miracinonyx inexpectatus – or unidentified comparable form
- Mustela
- Mycetoporus
- †Mylohyus
- Myotis
- Napaeozapus
- Natrix
A living Neofiber, or round-tailed muskrat - †Neofiber diluvianus – type locality for species
- Nerodia
- Nitidotachinus
- Notaris
- Notiophilus
- Ochthebius
- Odocoileus
A living Odocoileus virginianus, or white-tailed deer
- Olophrum
- Ondatra
- †Ondatra idahoensis – type locality for species
- Opheodrys
- †Osmotherium – type locality for genus
- †Osmotherium spelaeum – type locality for species
- Oxytelus
- Panthera
Fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Pleistocene ground sloth Paramylodon - †Paramylodon harlani – tentative report
- Parascalops
- Patrobus
- Pekania
- Pelenomus
- Peromyscus
- †Peromyscus leucopus – tentative report
- †Phanaeus
- †Phanaeus antiquus – type locality for species
- Philonthus
- Phloeotribus
- Pitymys
- †Pitymys cumberlandensis – or unidentified comparable form
- Pityophthorus
Restoration of a herd of alarmed Miocene-Pleistocene peccaries of the genus Platygonus. Charles R. Knight (1922). - †Platygonus vetus – type locality for species
- Platynus
- Podabrus
- Polygraphus
- Pterostichus
- †Pterostichus laevigatus – type locality for species
- †Pterostichus patruelis
- †Pterostichus punctatissimus
- Pycnoglypta
- Quedius
- †Rana
- †Rana pipiens – or unidentified comparable form
- Scalopus
- Simplocaria
Life restoration of the Pleistocene-Holocene saber-tooth cat Smilodon - †Smilodon gracilis – type locality for species
- Sorex
- Sphaeroderus
- †Sphaeroderus nitidicollis – or unidentified comparable form
- Stenus
- Stereocerus
- Sylvilagus
- Synaptomys
- Tachinus
- Tamias
- †Tamias striatus – or unidentified comparable form
A living Tapirus, or tapir - Taxidea
- Terrapene
- Thamnophis
- Thanatophilus
- Thomomys
- Trechus
- †Uncia
- †Uncia mercerii – type locality for species
- Urocyon
A living Urocyon cinereoargenteus, or gray fox
- Ursus
- Vulpes
- Zapus
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References
[edit]- ^ mschneck@pennlive.com, Marcus Schneck | (2022-03-10). "Pa. fossil site yields new species of prehistoric creature". pennlive. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
- ^ Storz, Emily (2022-04-26). "New Species of Ancient Fish Discovered along Pennsylvania Roadside". Drexel News Blog. Retrieved 2024-09-14.
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.