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This list of the Paleozoic life of Michigan contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Michigan and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
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- †Acanthoclema
- †Acanthonema – type locality for genus
- †Acanthonema holopiforme – type locality for species
- †Acanthonema laxa – type locality for species
- †Acidaspis
- †Actinoceras
- †Actinoceras backi
- †Actinoceras bigsbyi – or unidentified comparable form
- †Actinoceras gouldense – type locality for species
- †Actinoceras sphaeroidale
- †Alaskozygopleura
Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris - †Allonema
- †Ambocoelia – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Ambocoelia umbonata – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Ambonychia
- †Amphilichas
- †Amphilichas cucullus – tentative report
- †Anazyga
Fossil of the Carboniferous horsetail relative Annularia - †Anomalodonta
- †Anomalodonta gigantea – or unidentified comparable form
- †Anoptera
- †Anthropora
- †Antirotella
- †Antirotella helicinaeformis – type locality for species
- †Archinacella
- †Arcyzona
- †Arthroacantha
- †Ascodictyon
- †Asolanus
- †Asterophyllites
- †Asterophyllites equisetiformis
- †Asterophyllites longifolius – or unidentified comparable form
- †Asterophyllites vernensis
- †Atactoechus
- †Atactoechus typicus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Athyris
Fossilized shell of the Late Ordovician-Carboniferous brachiopod Atrypa - †Aulacera
- †Aulacotheca
- †Aulocystis
- †Aulopora
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- †Batostoma
- †Beatricea
Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic mollusc Bellerophon - †Bellerophon barquensis – type locality for species
- †Bellerophon newberryi
- †Bellerophon pelops
- †Bensbergia
- †Bethanyphyllum
- †Bicarina
- †Bigalea – type locality for genus
- †Bigalea yangi – type locality for species
- †Billingsites
- †Bothrodendron
- †Botryllopora
- †Bowmanites
- †Brachyprion
- †Buechelia
- †Byssonychia
- Bythocypris
- †Bythopora
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Fossilized stems from the Carboniferous-Permian horsetail relative Calamites - †Calapoecia
- †Callipleura
- †Callipleura nobilis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Callixylon
Fossil of the Early Ordovician-Early Devonian trilobite Calymene - †Camarotoechia
- †Cardiocaron
- †Cardiocarpon
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician trilobite Ceraurus - †Cerithioides
- †Cheirocrinus – tentative report
- †Chonetes
- †Clathronema
- †Clidophorus
Assemblage of fossils of the Cambrian graptolite Climacograptus - †Coelospira
- †Coleolus
- †Colpomya
- †Columnaria
- †Conularia
- †Cordaianthus
Fossilized foliage of the Carboniferous-Permian conifer relative Cordaites - †Cornulites
- †Cornulites corrugatus
- †Cornulites flexuosus
- †Cornulites sterlingensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Corocrinus
- †Corynepteris
- †Corynepteris coralloides – tentative report
- †Cranaena
- †Cranaena amygdaloidea – or unidentified related form
- †Cranaena lincklaeni
- †Cranaena romingeri
- †Crenulazona
- †Cryptonella
- †Ctenodonta
- †Cuneamya
- †Cupularostrum
- †Cyclonema
- †Cylindrophyllum
- †Cymatonota
- †Cymatonota typicalis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Cyrtina
- †Cyrtina alpenensis
- †Cyrtina hamiltonensis – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Cyrtina umbonata
- †Cyrtoceras – tentative report
- †Cyrtodonta
- †Cyrtolites
- †Cyrtostropha
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- †Dalmanella
- †Decorochilina
- †Denayella
- †Denayella bella – type locality for species
- †Devonalosia
- †Devonochonetes
- †Dictyobembix – type locality for genus
- †Dictyobembix bella – type locality for species
- †Diplothmema
- †Discinites
- †Discosorus
- †Discosorus ehlersi – type locality for species
- †Discosorus halli – type locality for species
- †Discosorus parksi – type locality for species
- †Discosorus remotus – tentative report
- †Douvillina
- †Duncanella – tentative report
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- †Echinocaris
- †Echinocoelia
- †Elasmonema – tentative report
- †Eldredgeops
- †Eliasopora
- †Elita
- †Encrinurus
- †Endoceras
- †Eremopteris
Fossils (figures 2–10) of the Silurian-Devonian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Erieopterus - †Euphemites – tentative report
- †Euryzone
- †Euryzone latitornata – type locality for species
- †Euryzone pharkidopyndax – type locality for species
- †Euthyrhachis
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Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites - †Ferganella
- †Flexicalymene
- †Flexicalymene croneisi
- †Flexicalymene magnipapilla – type locality for species
- †Flexicalymene meeki – or unidentified comparable form
- †Flexicalymene planilabra – type locality for species
- †Flexicalymene praelongicephala – type locality for species
- †Flexicalymene quadricapita – type locality for species
- †Flexicalymene senaria
- †Floweria
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- †Geniculograptus
- †Gennaeocrinus
- †Genuspira – type locality for genus
- †Genuspira nodosa – type locality for species
- †Gigantopteris
Fossilized calyx and partial stem of the Devonian-Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Gilbertsocrinus - †Ginkgophyllum
- †Girvanella
- †Glossograptus
- †Grammysia
- †Graptodictya
Multiple views of a fossil of the Ordovician horn coral Grewingkia - †Gypidula
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Fossil of the Ordovician bryozoan ("moss animal") Hallopora - †Halysites
- †Hebertella
- †Hederella
- †Helicelasma
- †Helicotoma
- †Helopora
- †Hercostrophia
- †Hesperorthis
- †Heterophrentis
- †Heterotrypa
Fossil of the Devonian colonial rugose coral Hexagonaria, also known as a Petoskey stone - †Hindia
- †Hippocardia
- †Hippurograptus
- †Hiscobeccus
Fossilized shells of the Ordovician-Carboniferous sea snail Holopea - †Holopea hubbardi – or unidentified related form
- †Holtedahlina
- †Hormotoma
- †Hormotomina
- †Howellella
- †Huronia
- †Huronia annulata
- †Huronia bigsbyi
- †Huronia bigsbyi intermedia – type locality for variety
- †Huronia distincta
- †Huronia engadinensis – type locality for species
- †Huronia minuens
- †Huronia obliqua
- †Huronia paulodilatata
- †Huronia romingeri
- †Huronia turbinata
- †Huronia minuens
- †Huronia vertebralis
- †Huroniella
- †Huroniella ehlersi – type locality for species
- †Hyperoblastus
- †Hypomphalocirrus
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- †Icriodus
- †Illionia
- †Inocaulis
- †Intrapora
- †Isochilina
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus.
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- †Leioclema
- †Leiorhynchus
- †Leperditia
- †Lepidocarpon
Restoration of the Carboniferous-Late Triassic club moss relative Lepidodendron. Eli Heimans (1911). - †Lepidostrobus
- †Leptaena
- †Leptalosia
- †Leptobolus
- †Leptolosia
- †Leptotrypella
- †Lichenocrinus
- †Lingula
- †Lingula changi
- †Lingula cobourgensis
- †Lingula ogontzensis
- †Lingula progne – or unidentified comparable form
- †Lingula whitfieldi – or unidentified comparable form
- †Liospira
- †Longispina
- †Lophospira
- †Lophospira milleri
- †Lophospira perangulata – or unidentified related form
- †Lyopora
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- †Maelonoceras
- †Manitobiella
- †Mariopteris
- †Mastigograptus
- †Mastigospira
- †Mastigospira ingens – type locality for species
- †Mastigospira intermedia – type locality for species
- †Mediospirifer
- †Megastrophia
Illustration (lower right, entry 15) of a fossilized shell in front and side views of the Silurian-Late Devonian brachiopod Meristella - †Mesocoelia
- †Mesotrypa
- †Modiolopsis
- †Monticulipora
Fossilized shell of the Devonian brachiopod Mucrospirifer - †Murchisonia
- †Murchisonia akidota
- †Murchisonia anderdoniae
- †Murchisonia deludisubzona – type locality for species
- †Murchisonia dowlingii
- †Murchisonia gracilicrista
- †Murchisonia sibleyensis
- †Murchisonia subcarinata
- †Murchisonia subulata – type locality for species
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- †Naticopsis
Fronds of the Carboniferous seed fern Neuropteris - †Neuropteris caudata
- †Neuropteris dilitata
- †Neuropteris flexuosa
- †Neuropteris gigntea – tentative report
- †Neuropteris harrisi – or unidentified comparable form
- †Neuropteris heterophylla – or unidentified comparable form
- †Neuropteris obliqua
- †Neuropteris rarinervis
- †Neuropteris saginawensis
- †Neuropteris scheuchzeri
- †Neuropteris Schlehani
- †Neuropteris tenuifolia
- †Nodonema
- †Nowakia
- †Nuculites
- †Nuculoidea
- †Nuculoidea lirata – or unidentified comparable form
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- †Odontopteris
- †Oenonites
- †Oenonites curvidens – or unidentified related form
Fossil of the Ordovician trilobite Ogygites - †Oligorachs
- †Omphalocirrus
- †Onchometopus
- †Oncoceras
- †Ophisthoptera
- †Ophisthoptera casei – or unidentified comparable form
- †Ophistoloba
- †Opisthoptera
- †Opisthopteri
- †Opisthopteri casei – or unidentified comparable form
- †Orbiculoidea
- †Ormoceras
- †Orthoceras
- †Orthoceras alienum – or unidentified comparable form
- †Orthodesma
- †Orthodesma subangulatum – or unidentified comparable form
- †Orthograptus
- †Orthonota
- †Orthonychia
- †Orthonychia variablis – type locality for species
- †Orthopleura
- †Orthopleura B Imbrie – informal
- †Oxoplecia – or unidentified comparable form
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- †Pachydictya
- †Pagodea
- †Pagodea falcatinoda – type locality for species
- †Palaeopteridium
- †Palaeoscurria – tentative report
- †Palaeozygopleura
- †Paleofavosites
- †Palmatopteris
- †Panenka
- †Papillicalymene
- †Papillicalymene husseyi – type locality for species
Assemblage of the Early-Middle Devonian brachiopod Paraspirifer - †Paupospira
- †Pecopteris
- †Pecopteris dentata – tentative report
- †Pecopteris miltoni
- †Penniretepora
- †Penniretepora irregularis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Pentamerella
- †Pentameroides
Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Middle Devonian brachiopod Pentamerus - †Peronopora
- †Petrochus
- †Petrochus conica – type locality for species
- †Petrochus mellaria – type locality for species
- †Petrocrania
- †Pholadomorpha
- †Pholidops
- †Pholidostrophia
- †Phragmolites
- †Physostoma
- †Plaesiomys
- †Planalveolitella
Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic sea snail Platyceras - †Platystrophia
- †Platystrophia acutilirata
- †Platystrophia annieana
- †Platystrophia clarkesvillensis
- †Platystrophia clarksvillensis
- †Platystrophia cypha – or unidentified related form
- †Platystrophia moritura
- †Plectambonites
- †Plectonotus
Fossil of the Silurian-Carboniferous tabulate coral Pleurodictyum - †Polygnathus
- †Primitia
- †Primitiella
- Proboscina
- †Productella
Restoration of the Silurian trilobite Proetus - †Prosserella
- †Protaraea
- †Protarea
- †Protokionoceras
- †Protoleptostrophia
- †Pseudoatrypa
- †Pseudoatrypa devoniana – or unidentified comparable form
- †Pseudomphalotrochus
- †Pseudomphalotrochus cottrelli – type locality for species
- †Pseudomphalotrochus gibsoni – type locality for species
- †Pseudopecopteris
- †Pseudopecopteris avoldensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Psiloconcha
- †Pterinea
- †Pterinea demissa
- †Pterinea insueta – or unidentified related form
- †Pterinea insuetta – or unidentified related form
- †Ptychomphalina
- †Ptychomphalina lucina – tentative report
- †Ptychopteria
- †Pugnoides
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- †Rafinesquina
- †Rafinesquna
- †Rectograptus
- †Retispira
- †Rhabdocarpus
- †Rhinocaris
- †Rhipidomella
- †Rhipidomella penelope – or unidentified comparable form
- †Rhipidomella trigona
- †Rhipidomella vanuxemi
- †Rhipidothyris
- †Rhipidothyris B – informal
- †Rhombotrypa
- †Rhynchospirina
- †Rhynchotrema
- †Rhynchotrema minnesotensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Rhynchotrema perlamellosum
- †Rugomena
- †Rutkowskicrinus
- †Rutkowskicrinus collieri – type locality for species
- †Rutkowskicrinus patriciae
- †Rutkowskiella – type locality for genus
- †Rutkowskiella tumula – type locality for species
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- †Samaropsis
Fossils of the Cambrian mollusc Scenella - †Schizophoria
- †Schuchertella
- †Scutellum
- †Semicoscinium
- †Semipora – tentative report
- †Serpulospira
- †Sigillaria
- †Sinuites
- †Spermatites
- †Sphenophragmus
Fossilized leaves and branches of the Devonian-Triassic horsetail relative Sphenophyllum - †Sphenopteris
- †Sphenopters
- †Spinocyrtia
- †Spinocyrtia clintoni
- †Spinocyrtia euryteines – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Spinocyrtia granulosa
- †Spinulicosta
- †Spinyplatyceras
- †Spirifer – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Spyroceras
- †Stereotoechus
- †Stereotoechus typicus – or unidentified comparable form
Life restorations of a male (foreground) and female (background) of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Stethacanthus - †Stictoporina
- †Stigmaria
- †Stigmatella
- †Stokesoceras
- †Stokesoceras engadinense – type locality for species
- †Stokesoceras gracile
- †Stokesoceras romingeri – type locality for species
- †Straparollus
- †Straparollus mortoni – type locality for species
- †Streblotrypa
- †Streptelasm
- †Streptelasma
- †Striatopora
- †Strobeus
- †Stromatocerium
- †Stropheodonta
- †Stropheodonta demissa – or unidentified comparable form
- †Strophodonta
Fossilized shell of the Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Strophomena - †Strophomena alpenensis
- †Strophomena costata
- †Strophomena crassa
- †Strophomena elongata
- †Strophomena erratica
- †Strophomena extenuata
- †Strophomena heteromys
- †Strophomena huronensis
- †Strophomena inaequiradiata
- †Strophomena levidensa
- †Strophomena neglecta
- †Strophomena nutans – or unidentified comparable form
- †Strophomena parvula
- †Strophomena pentagonia
- †Strophomena planumbona
- †Strophomena potterensis
- †Strophomena sulcata
- †Strophomena tenuicosta
- †Strophomena titan
- †Styliolina
- †Sulcoretepora
- †Sulcoretepora deissi
- †Sulcoretepora incisurata
- †Sulcoretepora B – informal
Fossil of the Devonian tabulate coral Syringopora
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- †Technophorus
Fossilized shell of the Early Ordovician-Late Devonian probable mollusc Tentaculites - †Tetradella
- †Tetradium
- †Thamnopora
- †Thamnopora alpenensis
- †Thamnopora magniventra – type locality for species
- †Thamnoptychia
- †Trematis
Restoration showing the top (left) and underside of the Late Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus - †Trigonacarpolithus
- †Trigonocarpus – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Trigonocarus
- †Trimerella
- †Trochonema
- †Tropidodiscus
- †Tropidodiscus compticarinatus – type locality for species
- †Tropidoleptus
- †Truncalosia
- †Turbinilopsis
- †Turbinilopsis anacarina – type locality for species
- †Turbonitella
- †Tylothyris
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- †Vanuxemia
- †Vladanella
- †Vladanella lirata – type locality for species
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- †Warrenella
- †Warrenella laevis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Whitfieldella
- †Wisconsinella
- †Wisconsinella clelandi – type locality for species
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- †Zeilleria
- †Zygospira
- †Zygospira modesta – or unidentified comparable form
References
- ^ Foerste, A. F. (1924). Silurian Cephalopods of northern Michigan (PDF).
Uncited entries
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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