List of the Cenozoic life of North Dakota

This list of the Cenozoic life of North Dakota contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of North Dakota and are between 66 million and 10,000 years of age.

A

 * Acer
 * †Acrovena – type locality for genus
 * †Acrovena laevis – type locality for species
 * †Actinodonta
 * †Adjidaumo
 * †Adjidaumo minimus
 * †Adjidaumo minutus
 * †Aesculus
 * †Aesculus hickeyi – type locality for species
 * †Agnotocastor
 * †Agnotocastor praetereadens
 * †Aletodon
 * †Aletodon quadravus
 * Allognathosuchus.JPG †[[Allognathosuchus]] – type locality for genus
 * †Allognathosuchus mlynarskii – type locality for species
 * †Altasciurus
 * †Altasciurus leonardi – type locality for species
 * †Alveugena
 * †Alveugena carbonensis
 * †Amersinia
 * †Amersinia FU082 informal
 * †Amersinia FU82 informal
 * †Amesoneuron
 * †Amesoneuron FU037 informal
 * Amia
 * †Amia fragosa
 * †Amia uintaensis
 * †Ampelopsis
 * †Ampelopsis acerifolia
 * †Amphicaenopus
 * †Amphicaenopus platycephalus
 * †Ankylodon – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Apternodus
 * †Archaeocyon
 * †Archaeocyon leptodus
 * Archaeotherium.jpg †[[Archaeotherium]]
 * †Archaeotherium mortoni
 * †Arctocyon
 * †Ardynomys
 * †Ardynomys saskatchewensis
 * †Averrhoites
 * †Averrhoites affinis
 * †Axestemys
 * †Axestemys montinsana
 * Azolla
 * †Azolla montana
 * †Azolla stanleyi – type locality for species
 * †Azollopsis
 * †Azollopsis tomentosa

B

 * †Bathycyathus
 * †Bathycyathus lloydi – type locality for species
 * †Batrachosauroides
 * †Batrachosauroides gotoi – type locality for species
 * †Beringiaphyllum – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
 * †Beringiaphyllum cupanioides
 * †Bessoecetor
 * †Bessoecetor septentrionalis
 * Betula
 * †Betula hesterna – type locality for species
 * †Bisonalveus
 * †Bisonalveus holtzmani
 * †Borealosuchus
 * †Borealosuchus formidabilis – type locality for species
 * †Boremys
 * †Bothriodon
 * Brachycrus.jpg †[[Brachycrus]]
 * †Browniea
 * †Browniea serrata

C

 * †Cabomba
 * †Cabomba inermis
 * †Calamagras
 * †Calamagras weigeli
 * †Canariophyllum – type locality for genus
 * †Canariophyllum ampla – type locality for species
 * Canticocculus
 * †Cantius
 * †Cantius frugivorus
 * †Carpites
 * †Carpites verrucosus
 * †Carpodaptes
 * †Carpodaptes hazelae – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Carpodaptes hobackensis – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Carpolithes
 * †Carpolithes arcticus
 * †Carpolithes bryangosus – type locality for species
 * †Carpolithes lunatus – type locality for species
 * Carya Morton 29-U-10.jpg [[Carya]]
 * †Carya antiquorum
 * †Cedromus
 * †Cedromus wardi
 * Celtis
 * †Celtis aspera
 * †Centetodon
 * †Centetodon chadronensis
 * †Centetodon magnus
 * †Centetodon marginalis
 * †Centimanomys
 * †Ceratophyllum
 * †Ceratophyllum FU080 informal
 * Cercidiphyllum
 * †Cercidiphyllum arcticum
 * †Cercidiphyllum articum
 * †Cercidiphyllum ellipticum
 * †Cercidiphyllum genetrix
 * †Chaetoptelea
 * †Chaetoptelea microphylla
 * Champsosaurus BW.jpg †[[Champsosaurus]]
 * †Champsosaurus gigas – type locality for species
 * †Champsosaurus tenuis – type locality for species
 * †Chrysotriton – type locality for genus
 * †Chrysotriton tiheni – type locality for species
 * Cocculus
 * †Cocculus flabella
 * †Coniophis
 * †Conoryctella
 * †Conoryctella dragonensis – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Cornophyllum
 * †Cornophyllum newberryi
 * Cornus
 * †Cornus hyperborea
 * †Corylus
 * †Corylus acutertiaria – type locality for species
 * †Corylus FU079 informal
 * †Corylus insignis
 * Coryphodon.jpg †[[Coryphodon]]
 * †Coryphodon armatus – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Cotradechites – type locality for genus
 * †Cotradechites lithinus – type locality for species
 * †Credneria
 * †Credneria daturaefolia – tentative report
 * †Cupressinocladus
 * †Cupressinocladus interruptus
 * Cyclocarya
 * †Cyclocarya brownii
 * †Cylindrodon
 * †Cylindrodon collinus
 * †Cyperacites
 * †Cypressaurus

D

 * †Dakotornis – type locality for genus
 * †Dakotornis cooperi – type locality for species
 * Daphoenus vetus restoration.jpg †[[Daphoenus]]
 * †Davidia
 * †Davidia antiqua
 * †Dennstaedtia
 * †Dennstaedtia americana
 * †Diacocherus
 * †Diacocherus minutus
 * †Diacodexis – tentative report
 * Subhyracodon tridactylus.jpg Diceratherium. Robert Bruce Horsfall (1913).]] †Diceratherium
 * †Diceratherium tridactylum
 * Dicotylophyllum
 * †Dicotylophyllum anomalum
 * †Dicotylophyllum hamameloides – type locality for species
 * †Dicotylophyllum hebronensis – type locality for species
 * †Dicotylophyllum mercerensis – type locality for species
 * †Dicotylophyllum oblongatum – type locality for species
 * †Didelphodus – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Didymictis
 * ExtmDinictis1921-029-11.jpg †[[Dinictis]]
 * †Dissacus
 * †Dombeya
 * †Dombeya novimundi – type locality for species
 * †Domnina
 * †Domnina sagittariensis – type locality for species
 * †Domnina thompsoni – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Dorraletes
 * †Dorraletes diminutivus
 * †Douglassciurus
 * †Douglassciurus jeffersoni
 * †Drepanochilus – tentative report

E

 * Echmatemys stevensoniana AMNH 6084.jpg †[[Echmatemys]]
 * †Echmatemys testudinea
 * †Ectocion
 * †Ectocion collinus
 * †Ectypodus
 * †Ectypodus hazeni
 * †Ectypodus lovei
 * †Elliptio
 * †Elliptio priscus
 * †Elomeryx
 * †Elomeryx armatus
 * †Entomolestes
 * †Equisetum
 * †Equisetum FU036 informal
 * †Equisetum magnum – type locality for species
 * †Eucommia
 * †Eucommia serrata
 * †Eumys
 * †Eumys brachyodus
 * †Eumys elegans
 * †Eumys lammersi – type locality for species
 * †Eutypomys
 * †Eutypomys hibernodus – type locality for species
 * †Eutypomys parvus

F

 * Sycomoros old.jpg [[Ficus]]
 * †Ficus subtruncata
 * †Fokieniopsis
 * †Fokieniopsis catenulata
 * †Fraxinus
 * †Fraxinus eocenica

G

 * Ginkgo
 * Ginkgo adiantoides - G. cranii.jpg †[[Ginkgo adiantoides]]
 * Glyptostrobus
 * †Glyptostrobus europaeus
 * †Glyptostrobus nordenskioldi
 * †Gomphaeschna
 * †Gomphaeschna schrankii – type locality for species

H

 * †Harmsia
 * †Harmsia hydrocotyloidea
 * †Heliscomys
 * †Heliscomys borealis – type locality for species
 * †Heliscomys medius – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Heliscomys senex
 * †Heliscomys vetus – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Helodermoides
 * Hemitelia
 * †Hemitelia magna
 * †Herpetotherium
 * †Herpetotherium fugax – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Herpetotherium valens
 * Cynodictis.jpg †[[Hesperocyon]]
 * †Hesperocyon gregarius
 * †Hesperopetes
 * †Hesperopetes blacki – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Homogalax
 * †Homogalax aureus – type locality for species
 * †Hydromystria
 * †Hydromystria expansa
 * †Hyopsodus
 * †Hyopsodus loomisi
 * †Hypertragulus
 * †Hyracodon

I

 * †Ignacius
 * †Ignacius frugivorus
 * Ischyromys.jpg †[[Ischyromys]]
 * †Ischyromys junctus
 * †Ischyromys typus
 * †Ischyromys veterior – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Isoetites
 * †Isoetites horridus

J

 * †Joffrichthys
 * †Joffrichthys triangulpterus – type locality for species
 * Juglans
 * †Juglans taurina

K

 * Mountain laurel blooms (5940253290).jpg †[[Kalmia]] – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
 * †Kalmia elliptica
 * †Kirkomys

L

 * †Labidolemur
 * †Labidolemur soricoides
 * †Lemnaceae
 * †Lemnaceae scutatum
 * Longnose gar.png [[Lepisosteus]]
 * †Lepisosteus occidentalis
 * †Leptacodon
 * †Leptacodon tener
 * †Leptauchenia
 * †Leptauchenia decora
 * †Leptictis
 * †Leptictis acutidens – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Leptictis dakotensis
 * †Leptodontomys
 * †Leptodontomys douglassi
 * Leptomeryx BW.jpg †[[Leptomeryx]]
 * †Leptomeryx evansi
 * †Leptomeryx yoderi – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Litocherus
 * †Litocherus zygeus
 * †Lophiparamys
 * †Lophiparamys murinus – or unidentified comparable form
 * Lygodium
 * †Lygodium kaulfussi

M

 * Marchantia
 * †Marchantia pealei
 * †Marchantia pealii
 * †Megalagus
 * †Megalagus brachyodon – or unidentified comparable form
 * Megalonyx wheatleyi - AMNH - DSC06327.JPG †[[Megalonyx]]
 * †Megalonyx jeffersonii
 * †Meliosma
 * †Meliosma longifolia
 * †Meliosoma
 * †Meliosoma rostellata
 * †Menispermites
 * †Menispermites parvareolatus – type locality for species
 * †Merychyus
 * †Merycochoerus
 * †Merycoidodon
 * †Merycoidodon bullatus
 * †Merycoidodon culbertsoni
 * †Merycoidodon major
 * †Mesodma
 * †Mesodma pygmaea
 * †Mesohippus
 * †Mesohippus bairdi
 * †Mesohippus propinquus – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Mesohippus westoni – or unidentified comparable form
 * Knight Metamynodon.jpg †[[Metamynodon]]
 * †Metaparamys
 * †Metaparamys dawsonae – or unidentified comparable form
 * Metasequoia
 * †Metasequoia occidentalis
 * †Miacis
 * †Microcosmodon
 * †Microparamys – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Micropternodus
 * †Micropternodus borealis – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Microsyops
 * †Microsyops angustidens
 * †Mimetodon
 * †Mimetodon silberlingi
 * †Miniochoerus
 * †Miniochoerus starkensis – type locality for species
 * †Miohippus
 * †Miohippus obliquidens
 * †Musophyllum
 * †Musophyllum complicatum

N

 * †Nannodectes
 * †Nanotragulus
 * †Nelumbago
 * †Nelumbago montanum
 * †Nelumbium
 * Nelumno nucifera open flower - botanic garden adelaide2.jpg †[[Nelumbo]]
 * †Nelumbo aureavallis – type locality for species
 * †Nelumbo FU062 informal
 * †Nelumbo FU085 informal
 * †Nelumbo FU62 informal
 * †Neoplagiaulax
 * †Neoplagiaulax hunteri
 * †Neoplagiaulax mckennai
 * †Neoplagiaulax nanophus
 * †Nephrops
 * †Nephrops buntingi – type locality for species
 * †Nordenskioldia
 * †Nordenskioldia borealis
 * †Notomorpha
 * †Notomorpha garmanii
 * Nototeredo norvagica 001.png †[[Nototeredo]]
 * †Nototeredo globosa
 * †Nyssa
 * †Nyssa alata
 * †Nyssidium
 * †Nyssidium arcticum
 * †Nyssidium articum

O

 * †Ogmophis
 * †Ogmophis compactus
 * †Oligoryctes
 * †Oligoryctes altitalonidus
 * †Oligoryctes cameronensis – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Oligoscalops
 * †Oligoscalops galbreathi
 * †Oligotheriomys
 * †Oligotheriomys magnus
 * †Oligotheriomys primus – type locality for species
 * †Onoclea
 * †Onoclea hesperia
 * Ophiomorpha.jpg †[[Ophiomorpha]]
 * †Ophiomorpha nodosa
 * †Oreithyia
 * †Oreithyia oaklandi
 * †Osbornodon
 * †Osbornodon renjiei – type locality for species
 * †Osmunda
 * †Osmunda macrophylla
 * †Oxyacodon
 * †Oxyacodon priscilla

P

 * †Palaeanodon – tentative report
 * †Palaeocarpinus
 * Palaeolagus NT small.jpg relative Palaeolagus]] †Palaeolagus
 * †Palaeolagus haydeni
 * †Palaeolagus temnodon – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Palaeophytocrene
 * †Palaeopsammia
 * †Palaeopsammia zitteli – type locality for species
 * †Palaeoryctes
 * †Palaeoryctes punctatus – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Palaeosinopa
 * †Palaeoxantusia – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
 * †Palaeoxantusia borealis
 * †Paleotomus
 * †Paleotomus senior – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Palmacites
 * †Paradjidaumo
 * †Paradjidaumo hansonorum – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Paradjidaumo trilophus
 * †Paramys
 * †Paramys excavatus – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Paranymphaea
 * †Paranymphaea crassifolia
 * †Pararyctes
 * †Pararyctes pattersoni
 * †Parataxodium – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Paraternstroemia – type locality for genus
 * †Paraternstroemia hyphovenosa – type locality for species
 * †Parectypodus
 * †Parectypodus lunatus
 * †Peltosaurus – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Penosphyllum
 * †Penosphyllum cordatum
 * †Peradectes
 * †Peradectes elegans
 * †Persites – type locality for genus
 * †Persites argutus – type locality for species
 * Knight Phenacodus.jpg †[[Phenacodus]]
 * †Phenacodus grangeri
 * †Phenacodus magnus
 * †Phyllites
 * †Phyllites demoresi
 * †Phyllites disturbans
 * †Piceoerpeton
 * †Piceoerpeton willwoodense
 * Pinus
 * †Pinus peregrinus – type locality for species
 * †Pipestoneomys
 * †Planatus
 * †Planatus raynoldsi
 * †Plastomenus
 * Platanus
 * †Platanus nobilis
 * †Platanus raynoldsi
 * †Platanus raynoldsii
 * Platycarya
 * †Platycarya americana
 * Plesiadapis NT.jpg †[[Plesiadapis]]
 * †Plesiadapis anceps
 * †Plesiadapis churchilli – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Plesiadapis fodinatus – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Plesiadapis rex
 * †Poebrotherium
 * †Poebrotherium wilsoni
 * Populus
 * †Populus nebrascensis
 * †Prochetodon
 * †Prochetodon foxi
 * †Prodiacodon
 * †Prodiacodon tauricinerei – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Prolapsus
 * †Propalaeosinopa
 * †Propalaeosinopa albertensis
 * †Prosciurus
 * †Prosciurus albiclivus – type locality for species
 * †Prosciurus hogansoni – type locality for species
 * †Prosciurus vetustus
 * †Protictis
 * †Protictis microlestes – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Protictis paralus – type locality for species
 * Knight Protoceras.jpg †[[Protoceras]] – tentative report
 * †Protochelydra
 * †Protochelydra zangerli
 * †Protophyllum
 * †Protophyllum semotum – type locality for species
 * †Protungulatum
 * †Pseudocylindrodon
 * †Pseudocylindrodon silvaticus
 * †Psidium – tentative report
 * Pterocarya
 * †Pterocarya hispida
 * †Pterospermites
 * †Pterospermites cordata
 * Ptilodus skull BW cropped.jpg †[[Ptilodus]]
 * †Ptilodus kummae
 * †Ptilodus montanus
 * †Ptilodus wyomingensis

Q

 * †Queironius – type locality for genus
 * †Queironius praelapsus – type locality for species
 * Eiche bei Schönderling, 2.jpg [[Quercus]]
 * †Quercus macneili
 * †Quercus sullyi
 * †Quercus yulensis
 * †Quereuxia
 * †Quereuxia angulata

R

 * †Reithroparamys
 * Amphisbaenia 1.jpg, or North American worm lizard]] Rhineura'' – or unidentified comparable form

S

 * Sagittaria
 * †Sagittaria megasperma
 * †Salvinia
 * †Salvinia aureovallis – type locality for species
 * †Salvinia preauriculata
 * Saniwa ensidens.jpg †[[Saniwa]]
 * †Saniwa edura – type locality for species
 * †Saniwa ensidens – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Sauropithecoides – type locality for genus
 * †Sauropithecoides charisticus – type locality for species
 * †Scapherpeton
 * †Selaginella
 * †Selaginella collieri
 * †Simoedosaurus
 * †Simoedosaurus dakotensis – type locality for species
 * †Sinclairella
 * †Sparganium
 * †Sparganium antiquum
 * †Sparganium parvum – type locality for species
 * †Sparganium stygium
 * †Spathorhynchus – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Stibarus
 * †Stibarus montanus
 * †Stillingia
 * †Stillingia casca – type locality for species
 * Knight Caenopus.jpg †[[Subhyracodon]]
 * †Subhyracodon occidentalis

T

 * Taxodium
 * †Taxodium olrikii
 * Teilhardina fossil cropped.png †[[Teilhardina]]
 * †Ternstroemites
 * †Ternstroemites aureavallis – type locality for species
 * †Tetonoides
 * †Tetonoides pearcei
 * Thamnophis
 * †Thryptacodon
 * †Thryptacodon australis
 * †Thuites
 * †Thuites interruptus
 * †Thuja
 * †Thuja interrupta
 * Tinosaurus
 * Titanoides2010.jpg †[[Titanoides]]
 * †Titanoides primaevus – type locality for species
 * †Toxotherium
 * †Trapa
 * †Trapa angulata
 * †Trichopterodomus – type locality for genus
 * †Trichopterodomus leonardi – type locality for species
 * †Trigonias
 * Trochocyathus
 * †Trochocyathus mitratus – type locality for species
 * †Trochodendroides
 * †Trochodendroides serrulata
 * †Tuberculacerta – type locality for genus
 * †Tuberculacerta pearsoni – type locality for species

U

 * †Unuchinia
 * †Unuchinia dysmathes

V

 * Viburnum opulus C.jpg †[[Viburnum]]
 * †Viburnum antiquum
 * †Viburnum tilioides

W

 * Wannaganosuchus.jpg †[[Wannaganosuchus]] – type locality for genus
 * †Wannaganosuchus brachymanus – type locality for species
 * †Wardiaphyllum
 * †Wardiaphyllum daturaefolium
 * †Willeumys
 * †Willeumys viduus
 * †Woodwardia
 * †Woodwardia arctica
 * †Woodwardia gravida – type locality for species

X

 * †Xestops – or unidentified comparable form

Y

 * †Yoderimys
 * †Yoderimys stewarti – or unidentified comparable form

Z

 * †Zingiberopsis – type locality for genus
 * †Zingiberopsis isonervosa – type locality for species