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By type

Land and avian animals

List of prehistoric amphibian genera This list of prehistoric amphibians is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be amphibians, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted gen ...

List of prehistoric mammals This is an incomplete list of prehistoric mammals. It does not include List of mammals, extant mammals or List of extinct mammals, recently extinct mammals. For extinct primate species, see: list of fossil primates.Mikko's Phylogeny Archiv Ma ...

List of fossil bird genera Birds evolved from certain feathered theropod dinosaurs, and there is no real dividing line between birds and non-avian dinosaurs except that some of the former survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event while the latter did not. For ...

* List of crurotarsan genera

Pterosaurs

List of pterosaur genera This list of pterosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all Genus, genera that have ever been included in the order Pterosauria, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considere ...

* List of informally named pterosaurs

Dinosaurs

List of dinosaur genera Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago, although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is the subject ...

List of informally named dinosaurs This list of informally named dinosaurs is a listing of dinosaurs (excluding Aves; birds and their extinct relatives) that have never been given formally published scientific names. This list only includes names that were not properly published ...

* List of dinosaur species on display *

Lists of dinosaur specimens Notable dinosaur specimens can individually increase science's knowledge about the life and world of the dinosaurs. By history * List of lost, damaged, or destroyed dinosaur specimens *List of dinosaur specimens sold at auction By preservation * ...

* List of non-avian dinosaur species preserved with evidence of feathers *

List of fictional dinosaurs This list of fictional dinosaurs is subsidiary to the list of fictional animals and is a collection of various notable non-avian dinosaur characters that appear in various works of fiction. It is limited to well-referenced examples of dinosaurs an ...

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List of African dinosaurs This is a list of non-avian dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered in Africa. Africa has a rich fossil record. It is rich in Triassic and Early Jurassic dinosaurs. African dinosaurs from these time periods include ''Megapnosaurus'', '' Dracove ...

List of Asian dinosaurs This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from Asia, excluding India, which was part of a separate landmass for much of the Mesozoic (See List of Indian and Madagascan Dinosaurs for a list of Dinosaurs from India). This list ...

List of Australian and Antarctic dinosaurs This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from Australia or Antarctica. Criteria for inclusion *The genus must appear on the List of dinosaur genera. *At least one named species of the creature must have been found in Aus ...

List of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of New Zealand A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, but ...

List of European dinosaurs Dinosaurs evolved partway through the Triassic period of the Mesozoic era, around 230 Ma (million years ago). At that time, the earth had one supercontinental landmass, called Pangaea, of which Europe was a part. So it remained throughout the Tr ...

List of Indian and Madagascan dinosaurs This is a list of non-avian dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from the Indian subcontinent or Madagascar. Though widely separated today, the Indian subcontinent and Madagascar were connected throughout much of the Mesozoic and shared si ...

* List of North American dinosaurs ** List of Appalachian dinosaurs ** List of archosaurs of the Chinle Formation ** List of dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation * List of South American dinosaurs

Marine animals

Corals

List of prehistoric hexacoral genera This list of prehistoric hexacorals (hexacorallia) is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all Genus, genera that have ever been included in the hexacorallia which are known from the fossil record. This list excludes purely vernacular ...

* List of prehistoric octocoral genera

Echinoderms

* List of prehistoric echinoderm genera * List of prehistoric echinoid genera * List of crinoid genera * List of edrioasteroid genera * List of prehistoric starfish genera * List of prehistoric stylophoran genera

Fish

Lists of prehistoric fish __NOTOC__ Prehistoric fish are early fish that are known only from fossil records. They are the earliest known vertebrates, and include the first and extinct fish that lived through the Cambrian to the Quaternary. The study of prehistoric fish is ...

List of prehistoric bony fish genera This list of prehistoric bony fish is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all Genus, genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be bony fish (class Osteichthyes), excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includ ...

List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera This list of prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all Genus, genera that have ever been included in the class chondrichthyes ''and'' are known from the fossil record. This list excludes purely v ...

** List of prehistoric jawless fish genera * List of acanthodian genera *

List of conodont genera This is a list of conodonts genera, sorted in alphabetical order. A-C * †'' Acanthodus'' * †''Acodus'' * †'' Acuminatella'' * †'' Alternognathus'' * †''Amorphognathus'' * †'' Ancyrodella'' * †''Ancyrognathus'' * †'' Anticostiodus ...

* List of placoderm genera

Other marine animals

* List of chitinozoan genera *

List of eurypterid genera This list of eurypterid genera is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Eurypterida, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now consider ...

* List of mosasaur genera * List of prehistoric annelid genera * List of prehistoric barnacles * List of prehistoric brittle stars *

List of prehistoric bryozoan genera This list of prehistoric bryozoans is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all Genus, genera that have ever been included in the bryozoa which are known from the fossil record. This list excludes purely vernacular terms. It includes a ...

* List of prehistoric chitons *

List of prehistoric foraminifera genera This is a list of fossil genera of foraminiferans. A *'' Abadehella'' *'' Abathomphalus'' *'' Abditodentrix'' *'' Abdullaevia'' *'' Abrardia'' *'' Abyssamina'' *'' Acarinina'' *'' Accordiella'' *'' Acervoschwagerina'' *'' Acervulina'' *'' Acicu ...

* List of ichthyosaur genera *

List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record This list of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record is an attempt to list all the genera of sea snails or marine gastropod mollusks which have been found in the fossil record. Nearly all of these are genera of shelled forms, since it is r ...

List of plesiosaur genera This list of plesiosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Plesiosauria, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered inv ...

List of prehistoric malacostracans This list of prehistoric malacostracans illustrates the Genus, genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be malacostracans, a class of crustacean arthropod, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly ac ...

* List of prehistoric medusozoan genera *

List of prehistoric nautiloid genera This list of nautiloids is a comprehensive listing of all Genus, genera that have ever been included in the subclass Nautiloidea, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now consid ...

* List of prehistoric ostracod genera * List of prehistoric sea cucumbers *

List of prehistoric sponge genera This list of prehistoric sponges is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the phylum Porifera, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera ...

List of trilobite genera This list of trilobites is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the Arthropod class Trilobita, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now conside ...

By location

* List of extinct animals of Romania * List of fossil species in the La Brea Tar Pits, California, United States * List of fossil species in the London Clay, England * List of White Sea biota species by phylum, Russia * Paleobiota of the Hell Creek Formation, northern United States *

Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Late Jurassic sedimentary rock that is found in the western United States, which has a wide assortment of Taxon, taxa represented in its fossil record, including dinosaur fossils in North America ...

, western United States

By period or other grouping

Largest prehistoric animals The largest prehistoric animals include both vertebrate and invertebrate species. Many of them are described below, along with their typical range of size (for the general dates of extinction, see the link to each). Many species mentioned might ...

List of Ediacaran genera The existence of life, especially that of animals, before the Cambrian had long been the subject of debate in paleontology. The apparent suddenness of the Cambrian explosion had no firm explanation, and Charles Darwin himself recognized the chal ...

List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species Late Quaternary prehistoric birds are avian taxa that became extinct during the Late Quaternary – the Late Pleistocene or Early Holocene – and before recorded history, specifically before they could be studied alive by ornithol ...

* List of vertebrate fauna of the Maastrichtian stage *

List of arthropods of the Cambrian Period This list contains many extinct arthropod genera from the Cambrian, Cambrian Period of the Paleozoic, Paleozoic Era. Some trilobites, Bradoriida, bradoriids and Phosphatocopina, phosphatocopines may not be included due to the lack of literature on ...