List of the Paleozoic life of Wyoming
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This list of the Paleozoic life of Wyoming contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Wyoming and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
A
edit- †Acanthopecten
- †Acanthopecten alatus
- †Acanthopecten coloradoensis
- †Acanthopecten delawarensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Acanthoscorpio – type locality for genus
- †Acanthoscorpio mucronatus – type locality for species
- †Acanthracospirifer
- †Acanthracospirifer occiduus – tentative report
- †Acanthracospirifer shawi
- †Acondylacanthus
- †Acondylacanthus browni – type locality for species
- †Acontiodus
- †Acratia – tentative report
- †Actinoceras
- †Actinocoelia
- †Acuticarpus
- †Acuticarpus delticus
- †Acuticarpus republicensis – type locality for species
- †Adetognathodus
- †Adetognathodus gigantea – or unidentified comparable form
- †Agassizodus
- †Agnostogonus
- †Agnostogonus incognitus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Allocryptaspis
- †Allumettoceras
- †Alokistocare
- †Amphiscapha
- †Amphiscapha calix – type locality for species
- †Amphissites
- †Amplexus
- †Ananias
- †Ananias nevadensis – or unidentified related form
- †Anarthraspis
- †Ancistriodus
- †Anematina
- †Angulotreta
- †Anidanthus
- †Ankoura
- †Anthracospirifer
- †Antiquatonia
- †Antiquatonia coloradoensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Antiquatonia sulcatus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Antracospirifer
- †Apachella
- †Apachella boydi – type locality for species
- †Apachella capertoni
- †Apachella franciscana
- †Apachella pseudostrigillata
- †Apachella turbiniformis
- †Aphanaia
- †Aphanaia erectum – type locality for species
- †Aphelaspis
- †Apiculatisporites
- †Apiculiretusispora
- †Arapahoia
- †Archaediscus
- †Archaediscus krestovnikovi – or unidentified loosely related form
- †Archaeocidaris
- †Arctacanthus
- †Arctacanthus wyomingensis – type locality for species
- †Asphaltina
- †Astartella
- †Astartella aueri – type locality for species
- †Astartella concentrica
- †Asteroarchaediscus
Life restoration of the Middle-Late Ordovician jawless fish Astraspis - †Aviculopecten
- †Aviculopecten basilicus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Aviculopecten girtyi
- †Aviculopecten gravidus
- †Aviculopecten gryphus
- †Aviculopecten kaibabensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Aviculopinna
B
edit- †Babylonites
- Bairdia
- †Bakevellia – tentative report
- †Balantoides
- †Baltagnostus
- †Baltagnostus wyomingensis – type locality for species
- †Barytichisma
- †Batacanthus
- †Batacanthus gigas – type locality for species
- †Bathymyonia
- †Batostoma
- †Bayfieldia
- †Bayfieldia bindosa
- †Bayfieldia simata – or unidentified comparable form
- †Baylea
Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic mollusc Bellerophon - †Bellerophon deflectus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Belodus
- †Bighornia
- †Billingsella
- †Biseriella
- †Blountia
- †Blountiella
- †Bolaspidella
- †Borestus
- †Bowmania
- †Brachythyrina
- †Bradyina – tentative report
- †Branchioscorpio – type locality for genus
- †Branchioscorpio richardsoni – type locality for species
- †Briscoia
- †Broeggeria – tentative report
- †Broggeria – tentative report
- †Broggeria strobiliformis – type locality for species
- †Bryantodina
- †Bryantolepis
- †Bucheria – type locality for genus
- †Bucheria ovata – type locality for species
- †Bulbocanthus
Restorative portrait of the Permian synapsid (mammal prescursor) Burnetia - †Burnetia alta – or unidentified comparable form
- †Bynumia
C
edit- †Calapoecia
- †Calcisphaera
- †Camaraspis
Life restoration of the Carboniferous Chimaera relative - †Camptonectes – tentative report
- †Cancrinella
- †Caneyella
- †Caninia
- †Cardipeltis
- †Carlinia
- †Cassianoides
- †Cassianoides sexcostatus – type locality for species
Fossil of the Ordovician-Silurian tabulate coral Catenipora - †Cavellina
- †Cavusgnathus
- †Cedaria
- †Cedarina
- †Celtoides – type locality for genus
- †Celtoides unioniformis – type locality for species
Life restoration of the Early Devonian jawless fish Cephalaspis - †Ceraunocochlis
- †Chaetetes
- †Chaetetes eximius – or unidentified comparable form
- †Chaetetes wyomingensis
- †Charactoceras – tentative report
- †Cheilocephalus
- †Chirognathus
- †Chonetes
- †Cibecuia
- †Cibecuia gouldii – or unidentified comparable form
- †Cinclidonema
- †Cinclidonema clausepeakensis – type locality for species
Fossilized shell of the Middle Devonian-Permian brachiopod Cleiothyridina - †Cleiothyridina atrypoides
- †Cleiothyridina elegans – or unidentified related form
- †Cleiothyridina hirsuta
- †Cleiothyridina sublamellosa – or unidentified related form
- †Clelandia
- †Cliffa
- †Cliffia
- †Climacammina
- †Coelogasteroceras
- †Coelogasteroceras mexicanum
- †Coelogasteroceras thomasi – type locality for species
- †Coleodus
- †Colpites
Fossilized shell of the Late Devonian-Permian brachiopod Composita - †Composita elongata
- †Composita laevis – or unidentified related form
- †Composita mira
- †Composita ovata
- †Composita poposiensis
- †Composita sigma
- †Composita subquadrata
- †Composita subtilita
- †Composita sulcata
- †Conocardium
- †Coosella
- †Coosia
- †Coosina
- †Cordylodus
- †Cordylodus concinnus – tentative report
- Cornuspira
- †Crassidonta
- †Crepicephalus
- †Crurithyris
Fossil of the Carboniferous shark Ctenacanthus - †Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias
- †Ctenacanthus mutabilis – type locality for species
- †Ctenacanthus obscuracostatus – type locality for species
- †Ctenalosia
- †Ctenalosia transversa – type locality for species
- †Cuffeyella
- †Cupulocrinus
- †Cupulocrinus latibrachiatus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Cyclites
- †Cyclites depressus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Cyclospira – tentative report
- †Cymbosporites
- †Cypricardella – tentative report
- †Cyrtogomphoceras
- †Cyrtoniodus
- †Cyrtorostra
- †Cyrtorostra varicostata – type locality for species
- Cytherella – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Cytogomphoceras
D
edit- †Deckera
- †Deckera completa – or unidentified comparable form
- †Delaria
- †Delaria sevilloidia – type locality for species
- †Della
- †Deltodus
- †Dendrocrinus
- †Densonella
Shell of a Dentalium tusk shell - †Derbyia
- †Derbyia magna
- †Derbyia robusta – or unidentified comparable form
- †Diaphragmus
- †Dibolisporites
- †Dicellomus
- †Diceromyonia
- †Dictyonina
- †Dictyotomaria
- †Dictyotomaria carlbransoni – type locality for species
- †Dielasma
- †Dielasma fabiforme – type locality for species
- †Diestoceras
- †Dimorphosiphon
- †Dinorthis
- †Diplosphaerina
- †Distichophytum
- †Dokimocephalus
- †Donaldina
- †Donaldina pygmaea – or unidentified related form
- †Donaldospira
- †Drepanodos
Fossilized foliage from the Early-Late Devonian club moss relative Drepanophycus - †Duncanopora
- †Dysoristus
E
edit- †Earlandia
- †Echinauris
- †Echinoconchus
- †Ectenocrinus
- †Ectodemites
- †Edmondia
- †Edmondia gibbosa
- †Edmondia phosphatica
- †Edmondia phosphoriensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Edmondia stuchburia
- †Eirlysia
- †Eirlysia reticulata – or unidentified comparable form
- †Elvinia
- †Emphanisporites
Fossilized shells and restored appearances of the Middle-Late Ordovician nautiloid cephalopod Endoceras - †Endothyra
- †Endothyra bowmani – or unidentified loosely related form
- †Endothyra excellens
- †Endothyra prisca – or unidentified loosely related form
- †Endothyra similis – or unidentified loosely related form
- †Endothyranella
- †Eoastarte – type locality for genus
- †Eoastarte subcircularis – type locality for species
- †Eocamptonectes
- †Eochonetes
- †Eochonetes maearum – type locality for species
- †Eoorthis
- †Eoschubertella
- †Eostaffella
- †Eostaffella acutissima – or unidentified loosely related form
- †Eostaffella circuli
- †Eostaffella pseudostruvei – or unidentified loosely related form
- †Eostaffellina
- †Eotuberitina
- †Ephippiorthoceras
- †Eriptychius
- †Erismodus
- †Eumetria
- †Eunemacanthus
Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Permian sea snail Euomphalus - †Euomphalus plummeri – or unidentified related form
- †Euphemites
- †Euphemites crenulatus
- †Euphemites fremontensis – type locality for species
- †Euphemites luxuriosus
- †Euphemites sacajawensis
- †Euphemites sparciliratus
- †Euphemitopsis
- †Eurekia
F
editFossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites - †Favosites prolificus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Flexaria – tentative report
- †Foerstephyllum
- †Fransonia
G
edit- †Gallatinospongia – type locality for genus
- †Gallatinospongia conica – type locality for species
- †Gastrioceras – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Gastrioceras williamsi – type locality for species
- †Genevievella
Fossil of the Early-Late Ordovician trilobite Geragnostus - †Girtyella
- †Girtyella indianensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Girtypecten
- †Girtyspira
- †Girvanella
- †Glabrocingulum
- †Glaphyraspis
Life restoration of the Carboniferous shark Glikmanius - †Globivalvulina
- †Globivalvulina bulloides – or unidentified loosely related form
- †Globoendothyra
- †Glyphaspis
- †Glyptopleura
- †Gnamptorhynchos
- †Goniasma – tentative report
Fossilized shell of the Late Devonian-Late Triassic ammonoid cephalopod Goniatites - †Goniophora – tentative report
- †Gosseletina
- †Gosseletina idahoensis – type locality for species
- †Gosseletina permiana
- †Gosslingia
- †Grandispora
- †Grandispora biornata – tentative report
- †Grandispora douglastownense
- †Grandispora macrotuberculata – tentative report
- †Grandispora micronata
- †Guizhoupecten
- †Guizhoupecten cheni
- †Guizhoupecten tubicostata – type locality for species
H
edit- †Hadragnostus
- †Hamatus
- †Healdia
- †Helemacanthus
- †Helicelasma
Life restoration of the Permian Chimaera relative Helicoprion - †Helodus
- †Helodus rugosus
- †Helodus subpolitus – type locality for species
- †Heslerodus
- †Hesperorthis
- †Hesperorthis pyramidalis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Heteropecten
- †Heteropecten vanvleeti – or unidentified comparable form
- †Hibbardella
- †Hiscobeccus
- †Holcacephalus
- †Hollina
- †Hollinella
- †Holophragma – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Homagnostus
- †Hormotoma
- †Hostimella
- †Housia
- †Hustedia
- †Hydroscorpius – type locality for genus
- †Hydroscorpius denisoni – type locality for species
Fossilized shells of the Cambrian-Permian brachiopod relative Hyolitha - †Hypergonia
- †Hypseloconus
- †Hypsiptycha
- †Hypsiptycha anticostiense
- †Hypsiptycha anticostiensis
- †Hypsiptycha neenah – or unidentified comparable form
- †Hystriculina
I
edit- †Ianthinopsis
- †Idiognathoides
- †Illaenurus
- †Incrustatospongia – type locality for genus
- †Incrustatospongia superficiala – type locality for species
- †Inflatia
- †Ithyektyphus
J
editK
edit- †Kaibabella
- †Kaibabella basilica – type locality for species
Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Kendallina - †Kingstonia
- †Kionoceras
- †Kochoceras
- †Komiella
- †Kormagnostus
- †Kyphocephalus
L
edit- †Lambeoceras
- †Lamellospira
- †Lamellospira alveozona – type locality for species
- †Lampraspis
Fossils of the Middle Devonian clubmoss Leclercqia - †Leiorhynchus
- †Lepidocyclus
- †Leptochondria
- †Leptochondria curtocardinalis – type locality for species
- †Leptodesma
- †Levizygopleura
- †Levizygopleura inornata – or unidentified comparable form
- †Limipecten – tentative report
- †Linglella
- †Lingula
Illustration of a fossilized shell of the Cambrian-Late Ordovician brachiopod Lingulella - †Linnarssonella
- †Linoproductus
- †Liosotella – tentative report
- †Lipinella
- †Liroceras
- †Lobocorallium
- †Lonchocephalus
- †Lonchodus
- †Lyroschizodus
- †Lyroschizodus oklahomensis – or unidentified comparable form
M
edit- †Machaeracanthus
- †Maclurina
- †Maclurites
- †Macrostylocrinus
- †Macrostylocrinus wyomingensis – type locality for species
- †Marginifera
- †Maryvillia
- †Meekella
- †Meekopinna
- †Meekospira
- †Megamyonia
- †Meniscocoryphe
- †Meniscocryphe
- †Mesolobus
Fossilized shell of the Carboniferous-Permian nautiloid cephalopod Metacoceras - †Metacoceras knighti – type locality for species
- †Metacoceras sulciferum – type locality for species
- †Meteoraspis
- †Microcoelodus
- †Microdoma – tentative report
- †Micromitra
- †Millerella
- †Millerella pressa
- †Millerella pura – or unidentified related form
- †Miltonella
- †Minicephalus – type locality for genus
- †Minicephalus primus – type locality for species
- †Modocia
- †Monocheilus
- †Mooreoceras – tentative report
- †Mourlonia
- †Multithecopora
- †Myalina
- †Myalina aviculoides
- †Myalina sinuata – type locality for species
- †Myalina wyomingensis
N
edit- †Nahannagnostus
- †Nasutimena
Fossilized shell of the Early Devonian – Triassic sea snail Naticopsis - †Naticopsis judithae
- †Naticopsis kaibabensis
- †Naticopsis marthaae – or unidentified comparable form
- †Natiria
- †Neoarchaediscus
- †Neocoleodus
- †Neokoninckophylllum
- †Neokoninckophyllum
Fossilized shell of the Carboniferous-Permian brachiopod Neospirifer - †Nixonella
- Nucula – tentative report
- †Nuculopsis
- †Nuculopsis montpelierensis
- †Nuculopsis poposiensis – type locality for species
- †Nuculopsis pulchra
- †Nuferella – tentative report
O
edit- †Obliquipecten
- †Ocnerorthis
- †Oepikina
- †Oepikina pergibbosa – or unidentified comparable form
- †Oistodus
Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Olenoides - †Olenoides incertus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Onchus
- †Orbiculoidea
- †Oreaspis
- †Oriocrassatella
- †Oriocrassatella elongata – type locality for species
- †Orthonema
- †Orthotetes
- †Orthothetina
- †Otusia
- †Ovatia
- †Ozarkodina
P
edit- †Paladin
- †Palaeoneilo
- †Palaeonubecularia – or unidentified comparable form
- †Palaeophyllum
- †Palaeotextularia
- †Palaeotextularia consobrina – or unidentified loosely related form
- †Palaeotextularia longiseptata – or unidentified loosely related form
- †Paleocuticularia – type locality for genus
- †Paleocuticularia perforata – type locality for species
- †Paleofavosites
- †Paleyoldia
- †Paltodus
- †Parabolinoides
- †Paracedaria
- †Paracedarina
- †Paractinoceras
- †Parajuresania
- †Parallelodon
- †Parallelodon multistriatus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Paraschizodus – type locality for genus
- †Paraschizodus elongatus – type locality for species
- †Paraspiriferina
- †Paraspiriferina formulosa – type locality for species
- †Parehmania
- †Peripetoceras
- †Permophorus
- †Permophorus albequus
- †Permophorus pricei – type locality for species
- †Pernopecten
- †Petrocrania
- †Pharkidonotus
- †Pharkidonotus altitropis – type locality for species
- †Phestia
- †Pimmacanthus
- †Plaesiomys
- †Plaesiomys rockymontana – or unidentified related form
- †Plagioglypta
- †Planoendothyra
- †Planospirodiscus
- †Platyceras
- †Platyceras yochelsoni – type locality for species
Fossilized shell of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Platystrophia - †Plethopletis
- †Pleurosiphonella
- †Polidevcia
- †Polycaulodus
- †Posidonia
- †Praearcturus
- †Proagnostus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Procostatoria
- †Prodentalium
- †Protaspis
- †Prototreta
- †Pseudagnostus
- †Pseudagnostus douvillei
- †Pseudagnostus prolongus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Pseudobythocypris – tentative report
- †Pseudoendothyra
- †Pseudoendothyra kremenskensis – or unidentified loosely related form
- †Pseudogastrioceras
- †Pseudoglomospira
- †Pseudomatthevia
Fossilized shell of a Pseudomelania sea snail - †Pseudomonotis
- †Pseudorthoceras
- †Pseudovidrioceras
- †Pseudozygopleura
- †Pseudozygopleura croneisi
- †Pseudozygopleura girtyi – or unidentified comparable form
- †Psilophyton
- †Psilophyton wyomingense – type locality for species
- †Pterocephalia
- †Pteroconus
- †Pugnoides
- †Pulsia
R
edit- †Rawlinsella
- †Renalcis
Restoration of the Early Devonian primitive vascular plant Renalia - †Renalia dorfii – type locality for species
- †Reticulariina
- †Reticulatia
- †Retispira
- †Retispira fragilis
- †Retispira modesta
- †Retispira tenuilineata – or unidentified loosely related form
- †Retispira textiliformis
- †Retusotriletes
- †Rhynchotrema
- †Rhynoleichus
- †Rugomena
S
edit- †Sallya
- †Sanguinolites
- †Sansabella
- †Sargentina – tentative report
Fossil of the Cambrian-Ordovician trilobite Saukiella - †Sawdonia
- †Sawdonia wyomingense – type locality for species
- †Scapallina
- †Scaphellina
- †Scaphellina concinna – type locality for species
- †Sceptropora
- †Sceptropora facula – or unidentified comparable form
- †Schizodus
- †Schizodus affinis – or unidentified related form
- †Schizodus alpinus
- †Schizodus altus – type locality for species
- †Schizodus bifidus
- †Schizodus canalis
- †Schizodus depressus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Schizodus ferrieri
- †Schizodus subovatus
- †Schizodus wheeleri – or unidentified comparable form
- †Schizodus wyomingensis – type locality for species
- †Schizophoria
- †Schizophoria depressa
- †Schizophoria texana – or unidentified comparable form
- †Schuchertella
- †Schuchertella poposiensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Scoloconcha
- †Sedgewickia – tentative report
- †Semicircularea
- †Shansiella
- †Shedhornia – type locality for genus
- †Shedhornia ornata – type locality for species
- †Shishaella
Modern specimen of the marine bivalve Solemya - †Soleniscus
- †Soleniscus altonensis – or unidentified related form
- †Soleniscus primogenius
- †Soleniscus typicus
- †Solenochilus
- †Solenochilus brammeri – or unidentified comparable form
- †Sphenalosia – type locality for genus
- †Sphenalosia smedleyi – type locality for species
- †Sphenosteges
- †Sphondylophyton
Fossilized shell and lophophore of the Silurian-Middle Jurassic brachiopod Spiriferina - †Spiriferina kentuckensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Spyroceras
- †Stacheia
- †Stacheoides
- †Stearoceras
- †Stegocoelia
- †Stenolobulites
- †Stenopilus
- †Stenopoceras
- †Stenopoceras abundum – type locality for species
- †Steroconus
- †Straparollus
- †Streblopteria
- †Streplopteria
- †Streptelasma
- †Streptognathodus
- †Streptognathus
- †Strobeus
- †Strobeus intercalaris – or unidentified comparable form
- †Strobeus paludinaeformis – or unidentified comparable form
Fossilized shell of the Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Strophomena - †Strophostylus
- †Stutchburia
- †Syspacheilus
T
edit- †Taenicephalus
- †Tainoceras
- †Tainoceras wyomingense – type locality for species
- †Talbotina
- †Tapinotomaria – tentative report
- †Tatonkacystis – type locality for genus
- †Tatonkacystis codyensis – type locality for species
- †Tetrataxis
- †Timaniella
- †Torynifer
- †Trachelocrinus
- †Tracheolcrinas – tentative report
- †Trachydomia – tentative report
- †Trepeilopsis
- †Triarthropsis
- †Triarthropsis nitida – or unidentified comparable form
Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Tricrepicephalus - †Triticites
- †Tuberitina
- †Turbinatocanina
- †Turbinatocaninia – tentative report
U
edit- †Uncaspis
Fossilized jaws of the Late Devonian lungfish Uranolophus
V
edit- †Virgaspongiella – type locality for genus
- †Virgaspongiella ramosa – type locality for species
- †Vnigripecten
- †Vnigripecten phosphaticus – type locality for species
- †Volvotextularia
W
edit- †Waagenella
- †Waagenella crassus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Warthia
- †Warthia fissus
- †Warthia waageni – or unidentified comparable form
- †Wellerella
- †Wellerella osagensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Westonoceras
- †Whitfieldoceras
- †Wilkingia
- †Wilkingia terminalis
- †Wilkingia wyomingensis – type locality for species
- †Wilsonoceras
- †Winnipegoceras
- †Worthenia
X
editY
edit- †Yakovlevia
- †Yochelsonellisa
- †Yunnania – tentative report
Z
edit- †Zaphrentites – tentative report
- †Zellerina
- †Zygospira
References
edit- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 7 August 2017.