This list of the prehistoric life of Minnesota contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Minnesota.
Precambrian
The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Minnesota.
Paleozoic
Main article: List of the Paleozoic life of MinnesotaSelected Paleozoic taxa of Minnesota
- †Actinoceras
- †Actinodiscus
- †Amorphognathus
- †Armenoceras
Reconstructive diagram (left) of a fossil (right) of the Ordovician sea urchin Bothriocidaris. The short spines which were attached to the tubercles are not drawn. - †Bumastus
- †Calymene
- †Cameroceras
- †Ceratopsis
- †Ceraurinella
- †Ceraurinus
- †Ceraurus
- †Charactoceras
- †Chasmatopora
- †Chidleyenoceras
- †Chirognathus
Assemblage of fossilized shells of the Ordovician brachiopod Cincinnetina - †Cincinnetina minnesotensis – type locality for species
- †Constellaria
- †Cordylodus
- †Cotteroceras
- †Crania
- †Craniops
- †Culumbodina
- †Curtognathus
- †Cyclonema
- †Cyptendoceras
- †Cyrtolites
- †Diplograptus
- †Ellesmeroceras
Fossilized shells and restored appearances of the Middle-Late Ordovician nautiloid cephalopod Endoceras - †Erratencrinurus
- †Fayettoceras – tentative report
- †Flexicalymene
- †Gabriceraurus
- †Geisonoceras
- †Glyptocrinus
- †Gonioceras
- †Grewingkia
- †Hallopora
- †Helcionopsis
- †Hindia
- †Holopea
- †Hypseloconus – type locality for genus
- †Icriodus
- †Illaenus
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. - †Kentlandoceras
- †Kionoceras
- †Kirengella
- †Krausella
- †Lambeoceras
- †Lingula
- †Manitoulinoceras
- †Michelinoceras
- †Nanno
- †Ormoceras – tentative report
- †Orthoceras
- †Oulodus
- †Ozarkodina
- †Periodon
- †Phragmolites
- †Plaesiomys
- †Platystrophia
- †Plectoceras
Fossil of the Late Ordovician cystoid echinoderm Pleurocystites - †Polygnathus
- †Polygrammoceras
- †Pterotheca
- †Reedsoceras
- †Reteocrinus
- †Rigidella
- †Rioceras
Fossils of the Cambrian mollusc Scenella - †Similodonta
- †Skenidioides
- †Sowerbyella
- †Spyroceras
- †Stigmatella
- †Strepsodiscus
- †Strophomena
- †Strophomena billingsi
- †Strophomena filitexta
- †Strophomena incurvata
- †Strophomena plattinensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Subulites
- †Teichertoceras
- †Tryblidium
- †Ulrichoceras
Fossil of the Ordovician-Devonian sea star Urasterella - †Valcouroceras
- †Vellamo
- †Westonoceras
- †Whiteavesia
- †Zittelloceras
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Mesozoic
- †Acanthoceras
A living Acteon barrel bubble sea snail - †Amphidonte – tentative report
- †Anatimya
- Anatina
- †Anchura
Interior and exterior of a shell of an Anomia, or jingle shell - Aporrhais
- †Arcellites
- †Ariadnaesporites
- Azolla – or unidentified comparable form
- Barbatia
- Brachidontes
- †Calliomphalus – tentative report
Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Calycoceras - Carcharias
- †Cenocarcharias
- †Collignoniceras
- Coptothyris
- Corbula
- †Costatheca
- †Cretodus
Fossil of the Early Cretaceous-Eocene shark Cretolamna - †Cymbophora
- †Cymbophora emmonsi
- †Cymbophora utahensis – tentative report
- †Dentalium
- Discradisca
- †Dunveganoceras
- †Epitonium
- †Etea – tentative report
Interior of a fossilized shell of the Jurassic-Cretaceous foam oyster Exogyra - †Gervillia
- †Gervillia propleura – tentative report
- †Goolandia
- Granocardium
- Gyrodes
- †Hybodus
- †Hybodus rajkovichi – type locality for species
Fossilized shell of the Early Jurassic-Late Cretaceous marine bivalve Inoceramus with a human indicating its size - †Ischyodus
- †Legumen
- †Legumen planulatum – or unidentified comparable form
- †Leptosolen
- Lima
- †Lingula
- †Lingula subspatulata – tentative report
- †Mesozoisynangia
- †Metengonoceras
- †Metengonoceras acutum
- †Metengonoceras dumblei – or unidentified comparable form
- †Metengonoceras dumbli
- †Metoicoceras
- †Metoicoceras bergquisti
- †Metoicoceras swallovi – or unidentified related form
- †Minerisporites
- †Molaspora
- †Mytiloides
- Nerita – tentative report
- Nucula
Fossilized tooth of the Late Cretaceous giant sawfish Onchopristis - Ostrea
- Parapholas
- †Pecten
- Pholadomya
- †Pinna
Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Placenticeras - Polinices
- †Prionocyclus
- †Protolamna
- †Protolamna gigantea – type locality for species
- †Pseudoperna
- †Pteria
- Rostellaria
- †Sanoarca
- †Scaphites
- Serpula
- Siliqua
- †Spermatites
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous shark Squalicorax - Tapes (bivalve)
- Tellina
- †Tenellisporites
- Teredolites – tentative report
Fossilized skull of the Late Cretaceous crocodilian relative Terminonaris - †Terminonaris robusta – type locality for species
- †Volutoderma
- Vulsella
- †Watinoceras
- Yoldia
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Cenozoic
- Bison
- †Mammut
Restoration of a Mammut americanum, or American mastodon
- †Mammuthus
References
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- Cobban, William Aubrey (1977). "Characteristic marine molluscan fossils from the Dakota sandstone and intertongued Mancos Shale, west-central New Mexico". United States Geological Survey. Professional Paper. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office: 21. doi:10.3133/pp1009. Report 1009 PDF. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
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