List of the prehistoric life of Missouri

This list of the prehistoric life of Missouri contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Missouri.

Precambrian
The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Alabama.

Selected Paleozoic taxa of Missouri

 * †Achatella
 * †Achistrum
 * †Acutimitoceras – tentative report
 * Alethopteris PAMuseum.jpg †[[Alethopteris]]
 * †Alethopteris davreuxi
 * †Alethopteris decurrens
 * †Alethopteris grandini
 * †Alethopteris serlii
 * †Alethopteris valida
 * †Amphiscapha
 * † Ananias
 * †Annularia
 * †Annularia sphenophylloides
 * †Annularia stellata
 * †Anomphalus
 * †Anthracoceras
 * Cameroceras trentonese.jpg †[[Aphetoceras]]
 * †Aphlebia
 * †Archeognathus – type locality for genus
 * †Artisia
 * †Asterotheca
 * †Athyris
 * †Athyris fultonensis
 * †Athyris lamellosa
 * †Aulochiton – type locality for genus
 * †Aviculopecten
 * †Aviculopecten gradicosta
 * †Avonia
 * †Bellerophon
 * †Bellerophon graphicus
 * †Bellerophon jeffersonensis – type locality for species
 * †Bembexia
 * †Beyrichoceras
 * †Bisatoceras
 * †Bolbocephalus
 * †Bumastus
 * †Bumastus trentonensis
 * Calamites stems.JPG †[[Calamites]]
 * †Calamites carinatus
 * †Calamites cistii
 * †Calamites cruciatus
 * †Calamites suckowii
 * †Calyptaulax
 * †Camarotoechia
 * †Camarotoechia elegantula
 * †Camarotoechia horsfordi
 * †Camarotoechia tuta
 * †Campbelloceras
 * †Cardiocarpus
 * †Cavusgnathus
 * Ceraurus fossil cropped.png †[[Ceraurus]]
 * †Chelodes
 * †Chonetes
 * †Chonetes geniculatus
 * †Chonetes mesoloba
 * †Chonetes ornatus
 * †Clarkoceras
 * †Cleiothyridina
 * †Cleiothyridina incrassata
 * †Cleiothyridina orbicularis
 * †Cliftonia
 * †Coenocystis
 * Compositafossil.jpg †[[Composita]]
 * †Composita elongata
 * †Composita ovata
 * †Composita subtilita
 * †Composita tetralobata
 * †Conocardium
 * †Coolinia
 * †Cordaicarpus
 * †Cordaites
 * †Cordaites crassinervis
 * †Cordaites principalis
 * †Cornuella – type locality for genus
 * †Cornulites
 * †Crania
 * †Crepipora
 * †Crepipora globulifera – type locality for species
 * †Curtognathus
 * †Cyclonema
 * †Cyclopteris
 * †Cyphaspis
 * †Cyrtoceras
 * †Cyrtolites
 * †Dalmanites
 * †Deckera
 * † Della
 * †Dicoelosia
 * Dinichthys herzeri jaw.jpg †[[Dinichthys]]
 * †Domatoceras
 * †Dorycordaites
 * †Earlandia
 * †Echinosphaerites
 * †Edmondia
 * †Ellesmeroceras
 * Eocaudina
 * †Eospirifer
 * †Euomphalus
 * Fadenia crenulata.jpg †[[Fadenia]]
 * †Favosites
 * †Flexicalymene
 * †Flexicalymene senaria
 * †Gervillia
 * †Glossina
 * †Gnathodus
 * †Gnathodus typicus
 * †Gondolella
 * †Halysites
 * †Helcionopsis
 * †Hemithecella – type locality for genus
 * †Hindia
 * †Holia – type locality for genus
 * †Holopea
 * †Hyolithes
 * †Hypseloconus
 * †Idiognathodus
 * †Irvingella
 * Isotelus brachycephalus.JPG †[[Isotelus]]
 * †Isotelus gigas
 * †Isotelus maximus
 * †Jeffersonia
 * †Kendallina
 * †Kirengella
 * †Kirkella – type locality for genus
 * †Lepidophyllum
 * †Lingula
 * †Liroceras
 * †Matthevia
 * †Maximites
 * †Meristella
 * †Meristina
 * †Metacoceras
 * †Murchisonia – tentative report
 * Neritopsidae - Naticopsis.JPG †[[Naticopsis]]
 * †Naticopsis judithae – type locality for species
 * †Naticopsis marthaae – type locality for species
 * †Naticopsis scintilla – type locality for species
 * †Naticopsis wortheniana – type locality for species
 * †Neospirifer
 * †Neospirifer cameratus
 * †Neospirifer goreii
 * †Neospirifer latus
 * †Neospirifer triplicatus
 * †Neuropteris
 * †Neuropteris caudata
 * †Neuropteris flexuosa
 * †Neuropteris heterophylla
 * †Neuropteris ovata
 * †Neuropteris rarinervis
 * †Neuropteris scheuchzeri
 * †Neuropteris tenuifolia
 * Nucula
 * †Oncagnostus
 * †Oncagnostus tumidosus
 * Orodus sp1DB.jpg †[[Orodus]]
 * †Orthoceras
 * †Orygmaspis
 * †Oulodus
 * †Ozarkodina
 * †Palaeoniscus
 * †Paradycheia – type locality for genus
 * †Pecopteris
 * †Pecopteris unita
 * †Phillipsia – tentative report
 * †Phragmolites
 * †Pinnularia
 * †Platyceras
 * †Pleurocystites
 * †Plicochonetes
 * †Polygnathus
 * †Polygnathus communis
 * †Prioniodus
 * †Proetus
 * †Pseudopolygnathus
 * †Pteridosperm
 * †Pterotheca
 * Ptyctodus compressus cropped.jpg †[[Ptyctodus]]
 * †Quadratia
 * †Receptaculites
 * †Remopleurides
 * †Robustum – type locality for genus
 * †Robustum nodum – type locality for species
 * †Rota
 * †Shelbyoceras – type locality for genus
 * †Sigillaria
 * †Skenidioides
 * Solemya
 * †Spathognathodus
 * †Sphaerocoryphe
 * †Sphenophyllum
 * †Sphenophyllum emarginatum
 * †Sphenophyllum longifolium
 * †Sphenophyllum majus
 * †Sphenopteris
 * Spirifer perlamosus pedunculate valve.jpg †[[Spirifer]]
 * †Spirifer marionensis
 * †Spirifer opimus
 * †Spirifer rockymontanus
 * Spirorbis
 * †Spyroceras
 * †Strepsodiscus
 * †Streptognathodus
 * †Streptognathodus clarki – type locality for species
 * †Strophomena
 * †Strophomena incurvata
 * †Subulites
 * †Tarphyceras
 * Tricrepicephalus texanus CRF.jpg †[[Tricrepicephalus]]
 * †Tryblidium
 * †Vellamo
 * †Whiteavesia
 * †Wilkingia
 * †Worthenia

Mesozoic

 * †Acteon
 * Adocidae - Adocus punctatus.jpg †[[Adocus]]
 * †Aenona
 * †Aenona eufaulensis
 * †Albertosaurus
 * †Ambigostrea
 * †Ambigostrea tecticosta
 * Amuletum
 * †Anatimya
 * †Anatimya anteradiata
 * †Anchura
 * †Anomia
 * †Anomia ornata
 * †Aphrodina
 * †Aphrodina tippana
 * Arrhoges
 * Baculites grandis shell.JPG †[[Baculites]]
 * †Baculites tippahensis
 * †Bellifusus
 * †Belliscala
 * †Bullopsis
 * †Bullopsis cretacea
 * Caestocorbula
 * †Caestocorbula crassaplica
 * †Caestocorbula crassiplica
 * †Caestocorbula percompressa
 * †Camptonectes
 * †Camptonectes bubonis
 * †Camptonectes hilgardi
 * †Caveola
 * Cerithiella
 * †Cerithiella semirugatum
 * †Clavipholas
 * †Clavipholas pectorosa
 * Cliona
 * †Clisocolus
 * Corbula modesta 002.jpg [[Corbula]]
 * Crassatella
 * †Crassatella vadosa
 * †Crenella
 * †Crenella elegantula
 * †Crenella serica
 * Cucullaea
 * †Cucullaea capax
 * †Cymbophora
 * †Cymbophora appressa
 * †Cymbophora berryi
 * †Cymella
 * †Cymella bella
 * †Cyprimeria
 * †Cyprimeria alta
 * DiscoscaphitesirisCretaceous.jpg †[[Discoscaphites]]
 * †Discoscaphites iris
 * †Drilluta
 * †Eoacteon
 * †Eoacteon linteus
 * †Eoharpa
 * †Eoharpa sinuosa
 * †Eubaculites
 * †Eubaculites carinatus
 * †Eufistulana
 * †Eufistulana ripleyana
 * †Eufistulina
 * †Euspira
 * †Euspira rectilabrum
 * Exogyracostata.JPG †[[Exogyra]]
 * †Exogyra costata
 * †Fulgerca
 * Fusinus
 * †Fusinus macnairyensis – or unidentified related form
 * Glycymeris
 * †Glycymeris compressa
 * †Glycymeris rotundata
 * †Goniochasma – tentative report
 * †Granocardium
 * †Granocardium lowei
 * †Granocardium tippananum
 * †Granocardium tippanum
 * †Gryphaeostrea
 * †Gryphaeostrea vomer
 * Gyrodes
 * †Gyrodes spillmani
 * †Gyrodes supraplicatus
 * †Hamulus
 * †Hamulus onyx
 * †Hamulus squamosus
 * †Helicaulax
 * †Helicaulax formosa
 * Juliacorbula
 * †Juliacorbula monmouthensis
 * †Legumen
 * †Legumen ellipticum
 * †Leptosolen
 * †Leptosolen biplicata
 * Lima
 * †Lima pelagica
 * Limatula
 * †Limatula acutilineata
 * †Linearis
 * †Linearis metastriata
 * †Liopeplum
 * †Liopeplum rugosum
 * †Liopistha
 * †Liopistha protexta
 * †Liothyris
 * †Lowenstamia
 * †Lycettia
 * †Lycettia tippana
 * †Lycettia tippanus
 * Malletia
 * †Malletia longfrons
 * †Malletia longifrons
 * †Micrabacia
 * †Morea
 * †Morea transenna
 * Mosasaurus missouriensis NT.png †[[Mosasaurus]]
 * †Mosasaurus hoffmanni
 * †Naomichelys
 * †Napulus
 * †Napulus octoliratus
 * †Nemocardium
 * †Nemocardium fragile
 * †Nemodon
 * †Nemodon eufalensis
 * †Nemodon eufaulensis
 * Nucula
 * †Nucula camia
 * †Nucula percrassa
 * Nuculana
 * †Nuculana whitfieldi
 * †Opertochasma
 * †Paladmete
 * †Paladmete cancellaria
 * Panopea
 * †Panopea monmouthensis
 * †Parmicorbula
 * †Parmicorbula percompressa
 * †Parrosaurus – type locality for genus
 * †Parrosaurus missouriensis
 * Pholadomyidae - Pholadomya scutata.JPG [[Pholadomya]]
 * †Pholadomya occidentalis
 * †Pinna
 * †Pinna laqueata
 * †Pleuriocardia
 * †Praeleda
 * †Praeleda compar
 * †Protocardia
 * †Protocardia spillmani
 * Pseudomalaxis
 * †Pseudomalaxis pateriformis
 * †Pterotrigonia
 * †Pterotrigonia angulicostata
 * †Pterotrigonia eufalensis
 * †Pterotrigonia eufaulensis
 * †Pyropsis
 * †Scambula
 * †Scambula perplana
 * SmallScaphites.jpg †[[Scaphites]]
 * Serpula
 * Striarca
 * †Striarca cuneata
 * †Striarca saffordi
 * †Syncyclonema
 * †Syncyclonema simplicius
 * Tellina
 * †Tellinimera
 * †Tellinimera buboana
 * †Tenea
 * †Tenea parilis
 * †Tenuipteria
 * †Tenuipteria argentea
 * †Tenuipteria argenteus
 * Trachycardium
 * †Trobus
 * †Trobus buboanus
 * Turritellatricarinata.jpg [[Turritella]]
 * †Turritella bilira
 * †Turritella chalybeatensis
 * †Turritella tippana
 * †Turritella vertebroides
 * †Unicardium
 * †Urceolabrum
 * †Urceolabrum tuberculatum
 * †Veniella
 * †Veniella conradi
 * †Volutomorpha
 * †Weeksia

Cenozoic

 * Alligator
 * †Arctodus
 * †Arctodus simus
 * Bison
 * †Bootherium
 * Bufo
 * †Bufo woodhousei
 * Camelus hesternus Sergiodlarosa.jpg †[[Camelops]]
 * Canis
 * †Canis dirus
 * †Canis latrans
 * Cnemidophorus
 * †Cnemidophorus sexlineatus
 * Crotalus
 * †Crotalus horridus
 * Dasypus
 * †Dasypus bellus
 * Elaphe
 * †Elaphe vulpina
 * Equus
 * †Equus complicatus
 * Geomys
 * Lepus
 * †Lepus americanus
 * †Mammut
 * Mammut americanum Sergiodlarosa.jpg †[[Mammut americanum]]
 * †Mammuthus
 * Marmota
 * †Megalonyx
 * †Megalonyx jeffersonii – or unidentified comparable form
 * Microtus
 * †Microtus ochrogaster – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Microtus pennsylvanicus
 * †Mylohyus
 * Neotoma
 * †Neotoma floridana
 * Nerodia
 * †Nerodia sipedon
 * Ochrotomys
 * †Ochrotomys nuttalli – or unidentified comparable form
 * Odocoileus
 * †Odocoileus virginianus
 * Panthera
 * Jaguar (Panthera onca palustris) male Three Brothers River (cropped) cropped.jpg †[[Panthera onca]]
 * †Platygonus
 * †Platygonus compressus
 * Procyon
 * †Procyon lotor
 * Puma
 * †Puma concolor – or unidentified comparable form
 * †Rana
 * †Rana pipiens
 * Sceloporus
 * †Sceloporus undulatus
 * Sciurus
 * Smilodon fatalis.jpg †[[Smilodon]]
 * Spermophilus
 * Spilogale
 * †Spilogale putorius – or unidentified comparable form
 * Sylvilagus
 * †Sylvilagus aquaticus
 * Synaptomys
 * †Synaptomys cooperi
 * †Tanupolama
 * †Tanupolama parvus – type locality for species
 * South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris).JPG [[Tapirus]]
 * Urocyon