This list of the prehistoric life of Wisconsin contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Wisconsin.
Precambrian
editThe Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Wisconsin.
Paleozoic
editSelected Paleozoic taxa of Wisconsin
edit- †Acernaspis
- †Acidaspis
- †Actinoceras
Restoration of the Cambrian arthropod Aglaspis - †Agraulos
- †Amplexopora
- †Amplexus
- †Arctinurus
- †Athyris
- †Atrypa
- †Atrypa reticularis – tentative report
- †Bumastus
- †Calymene
Fossil of the Silurian trilobite Calymene celebra
- †Catenipora
- †Cedaria
- †Ceratocephala
- †Ceraurus
- †Cheirurus
- †Chippewaella – type locality for genus
- †Chondrites
- †Chonetes
- †Conchidium
- †Conocoryphe
- †Coolina
- †Coolinia
- †Coosia
- †Corbina
- †Cornulites
- †Crepicephalus
- †Crotalocrinites
- †Cyathocrinites – tentative report
- †Cycloceras
- †Cypricardinia
- †Dalmanites
Life restoration of two species of the Silurian trilobite Deiphon - †Dendrograptus
- †Dicoelosia
- †Dikelocephalus
- †Dimerocrinites
- †Distomodus
- †Distyrax
- †Dresbachia
- †Echinochiton – type locality for genus
- †Echinochiton dufoei – type locality for species
- †Ellesmeroceras
- †Ellipsocephalus
- †Elrodoceras
- †Encrinurus
- †Entomaspis
- †Eophacops
- †Eospirifer
- †Eucalyptocrinites
Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites - †Geisonocerina
- †Hadromeros
- †Halysites
- †Harpidium
- †Hexameroceras
- †Holopea
- †Howella
- †Hyolithes
- †Hypseloconus
- †Illaenus
- †Inversoceras
- †Irvingella
- †Isotelus
- †Kionoceras
- †Krausella
- †Leonaspis
- †Leurocycloceras
- †Lingula
Illustration of a fossilized shell of the Cambrian-Late Ordovician brachiopod Lingulella - †Lonchocephalus
- †Mackenziurus
- †Marsupiocrinus
- †Maryvillia
- †Matthevia
- †Meristina
- †Michelinoceras
- †Milaculum
- †Monograptus
- †Murchisonia
- †Norwoodia
- †Obolus
- †Ophioceras
- †Ozarkodina
- †Pelagiella
- †Pemphigaspis
- †Pentamerus
- †Pentlandia
Fossil of the Silurian-Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Periechocrinus - †Phragmolites
- †Plaesiomys
- †Plagiostomoceras
- †Planolites
- †Platyceras
- †Platystrophia
- †Plectodonta
- †Pleurodictyum
- Pleurotomaria
- †Polygrammoceras
- †Proetus
- †Sactorthoceras
Fossil of the Cambrian-Ordovician trilobite Saukiella - †Scutellum
- †Similodonta
- †Skenidioides
- †Skolithos
- †Sowerbyella
- †Sphaerexochus
- †Strophomena
- †Subulites
- †Thalassinoides
Life restoration of the Silurian arthropod Thylacares - †Thylacares brandonensis – type locality for species
- †Uranoceras
- †Westonia
- †Whitfieldia
- †Wurmiella
Mesozoic
editThe Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Mesozoic fossils in Wisconsin.
Cenozoic
edit- Acidota
- Aegialia
Illustration of a living Agathidium round fungus beetle - Arpedium
- Asaphidion
- Bembidion
- Bledius
- Byrrhus
- Calathus
- Carabus
- Cercyon
A living Chironomus midge - Conophthorus
- †Conophthorus coniperda – or unidentified comparable form
- Copromyza
- Cryptophagus
- Curimopsis
- Cytilus
- Dyschirius
- Eusphalerum – or unidentified comparable form
- Formica
- Helina – or unidentified comparable form
- †Mammuthus
Restoration of a herd of Mammuthus primigenius, or wooly mammoths
- Mecopeltus – or unidentified comparable form
- Myrmica
- Negastrius
- Notiophilus
- Ochthebius
- Olophrum
- Pediacus
- Phloeosinus
- Phloeotribus
- Pityophthorus
- Polygraphus
- Pterostichus – or unidentified comparable form
- Quedius
- Scolytus
- Simplocaria
A living Sitona weevil - Stenus
- Trechus
References
edit- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.