This list of the prehistoric life of Indiana contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Indiana.
Precambrian
The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Indiana.
Paleozoic
Main article: List of the Paleozoic life of IndianaSelected Paleozoic taxa of Indiana
Fossilized calyx of the Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Abrotocrinus - †Achistrum
- †Achistrum brevis – type locality for species
- †Achistrum ludwigi
- †Achistrum nicholsoni
- †Achistrum triassicum
- †Acidaspis
- † Acrophyllum
- †Actinocrinites
- †Actinocrinites gibsoni
- †Actinocrinites grandissimus
- †Actinocrinites lobatus – tentative report
- †Actinocrinites lowei
- †Agaricocrinus
- †Aipoceras – tentative report
Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris - Ammodiscus
- †Ammonellipsites
- †Amplexopora
- †Amplexus
- †Anchiopsis
- †Angustidontus
- †Annularia
- †Aphlebia
Fossils of the Carboniferous-Permian bryozoan Archimedes - †Archimedes communis
- †Archimedes compactus
- †Archimedes distans
- †Archimedes intermedius
- †Archimedes invaginatus
- †Archimedes lativolvis
- †Archimedes macfarlani
- †Archimedes meekanoides
- †Archimedes meekanus
- †Archimedes negligens – or unidentified comparable form
- †Archimedes proutanus
- †Archimedes swallovanus
- †Archimedes swallowvanus
- †Archimedes symmetricus
- †Archimedes terebriformis
- †Arctinurus
- †Armenoceras
- †Artisia
- †Asterotheca
Life restoration of the Early Devonian club moss relative Asteroxylon - †Athyris
- †Atrypa
- †Atrypa newsomensis
- †Atrypa parva – or unidentified comparable form
- †Atrypa reticularis
- †Atrypa reticularus
- †Aulacophyllum
- †Aulopora
- †Aviculopecten
- † Avonia – tentative report
- † Avonia
Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic mollusc Bellerophon - †Bellerophon gibsoni – type locality for species
- †Bellerophon jeffersonensis
- †Bellerophon spergensis – type locality for species
- †Bembexia
- †Beyrichoceras
- †Bordonia
- †Bumastus
- †Bumastus armatus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Bumastus insignis
- †Bumastus ioxus
- †Bumastus niagarense – or unidentified comparable form
- †Calamites
Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous seed fern Callipteridium - †Callixylon
- †Calymene
- †Camarotoechia
- †Camarotoechia gregaria – tentative report
- †Camarotoechia horsfordi
- †Camarotoechia mutata
- †Camarotoechia neglecta – or unidentified comparable form
- †Camarotoechia pisa
- †Camarotoechia tethys
Fossil of the Silurian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Carcinosoma - †Caseodus
- †Caseodus eatoni – type locality for species
- †Ceramopora
- †Ceraurinus
- †Ceraurus
- †Chancelloria
- †Charactoceras
- †Cheirurus
- †Chomatodus
- †Chondrites
- †Chonetes
- †Cincinnetina
- †Cladochonus
Fossilized shell of the Middle Devonian-Permian brachiopod Cleiothyridina - †Clorinda – tentative report
- †Coenites
- †Coenites brownsportensis
- †Coenites cryptodens – or unidentified comparable form
- †Coenites laqueata – or unidentified comparable form
- †Coenites rectilineatus
- †Columnaria
- †Composita
- †Conchidium
- †Conocardium
- †Conocardium richmondense – type locality for species
Fossil of the Ordovician bryozoan Constellaria - †Coolinia
- †Cordaites
- †Cornulites
- †Coronura
- †Crania
- †Craniops
- †Crotalocrinites
Fossilized calyx and partial stem of the Silurian-Permian crinoid ("sea lily") Cyathocrinites - †Cyathocrinites glenni – or unidentified comparable form
- †Cyathocrinites multibrachiatus
- †Cyathocrinites parvibrachiatus
- †Cyathocrinites pauli
- †Cyathocrinites sanduskyensis
- †Cyathocrinites striatissimus
- †Cyathocrinites wilsoni
- †Cyclonema
- †Cyclopteris
- †Cyphaspis
- †Cypricardinia
- †Cyrtolites
- †Cyrtospirifer
- †Cystodictya
Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Middle Devonian trilobite Dalmanites - †Danaea
- †Decadocrinus
- †Dicoelosia
- †Dictyonema
- †Dimerocrinites
- †Dinicthys
- †Dizygocrinus
- †Dizygocrinus indianaensis
- †Dizygocrinus indianensis
- †Dizygocrinus venustus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Dizygocrinus whitei – or unidentified comparable form
- †Drepanopterus
Life restoration of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Edestus - †Edmondia
- †Eldredgeops
- †Elytron
- †Emmonsia
- †Encrinurus
- Eocaudina
- †Eodictyonella
- †Eospirifer
- †Eretmocrinus
- †Eretmocrinus cassedayanus – tentative report
- †Eretmocrinus magnificus
- †Erieopterus
- †Eucalyptocrinites
Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites - †Favosites arbor
- †Favosites baculus
- †Favosites biloculi
- †Favosites clelandi
- †Favosites cristatus
- †Favosites discoideus
- †Favosites favosus
- †Favosites forbesi
- †Favosites forbsei
- †Favosites goodwini
- †Favosites hisingeri
- †Favosites hispidus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Favosites impeditus
- †Favosites mundus
- †Favosites niagarensis
- †Favosites occidentalis
- †Favosites patellatus – type locality for species
- †Favosites pirum
- †Favosites placentus
- †Favosites proximatus
- †Favosites quercus
- †Favosites ramulosus
- †Favosites rotundituba
- †Favosites spinigerus
- †Favosites turbinatus
- †Fayettoceras
- †Fenestella
- †Fletcheria
- †Flexicalymene
- †Gilbertsocrinus
Life restoration of the Carboniferous shark Glikmanius - †Glyptambon
- †Glyptocrinus
- †Gomphoceras
- †Greenops
- †Grewingkia
- †Hallopora
Fossil of the Ordovician-Silurian tabulate coral Halysites - †Harpidium – tentative report
- †Heliophyllum
Fossil of the Devonian colonial rugose coral Hexagonaria, also known as a Petoskey stone - †Hexameroceras
- †Hindia
- †Holopea
- †Hyolithes
- †Icriodus
- †Illaenus
Life restoration of the Carboniferous Chimaera relative Iniopteryx - †Iocrinus
- †Isotelus
- †Kindleoceras
- †Kingstonia
- †Kionoceras
- †Kokomopterus
- †Lambeoceras
Restoration of the Carboniferous-Late Triassic club moss relative Lepidodendron. Eli Heimans (1911). - †Lepidophyllum
- †Lepidostrobus
- †Lichas
- †Lingula
- †Llanoaspis – tentative report
- †Manitoulinoceras
- †Marsupiocrinus
- †Martinia
- †Melonechinus
- †Meristella
- †Meristina
- †Microplasma
- †Mucrospirifer
- †Murchisonia
- †Natica
- †Naticopsis
- †Naticopsis carleyana – type locality for species
Fossilized frond of the Carboniferous seed fern Neuropteris - †Odontopleura – tentative report
- †Oncoceras
- †Onychocrinus
- †Onychopterella
- †Oonoceras
- †Ornithoprion – type locality for genus
Restoration of the Carboniferous-Permian cartilaginous fish Orodus - †Palmatolepis
- †Paolia – type locality for genus
- †Paraspirifer
- †Pecopteris
- †Pelagiella
- †Pentagonia
- †Pentameroceras
- †Pentamerus
- †Pentremites
- †Periastron
- †Periechocrinus
Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Late Devonian trilobite Phacops - †Phillipsia
- †Phragmolites
- †Pinna
- †Pinnularia
- †Plaesiomys
- †Platyceras
- †Platycrinites
- †Platystrophia
- †Plectodonta
- †Pleurodictyum
- †Pleurorthoceras
- †Poleumita
- †Polygnathus
- †Polysacos – type locality for genus
- Priscopedatus
- †Proetus
- †Protochonetes – tentative report
- †Protosalvinia
- †Psaronius
- †Pteria
- †Pterotheca
Life restoration of the Silurian-Middle Devonian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Pterygotus - †Quasillites – tentative report
- †Retzia
- †Rhadinichthys
- †Rhynchonella
- †Richmondoceras – type locality for genus
- †Rineceras
- †Rota
- †Samaropsis
- †Sandalodus
- †Scytalocrinus
- †Sidetes
Fossilized stump of the Carboniferous-Permian club moss relative Sigillaria - †Skenidioides
- †Sowerbyella
- †Spathognathodus
- †Sphaerexochus
- †Sphaerocodium
- †Sphenophyllum
- †Sphenopteris
- †Spirifer
- Spirorbis
- †Spyroceras
Life restorations of a male (foreground) and female (background) of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Stethacanthus - †Stigmaria
- †Stigmatella
- †Strophomena
- †Syringopora
- †Taxocrinus
- †Tentaculites
- †Tetradium
- †Thalassinoides
- †Treptoceras
- †Tricrepicephalus
- †Trimerus
- †Zittelloceras
- †Zoophycos
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Mesozoic
The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Mesozoic fossils in Indiana.
Cenozoic
- Acer
Life restoration of the Miocene camel Aepycamelus, or the long-necked camel. Heinrich Harder (1920). - Alces
- †Arctodus
- †Bensonomys
- †Bensonomys hershkovitzi – type locality for species
- †Bootherium
- †Borophagus
- †Bryum
- Bufo
- Candona
- †Candona crogmaniana – or unidentified comparable form
- †Candona elliptica – or unidentified related form
- Canis
Modern mounted skeleton of Canis lupus, the grey wolf, to scale with a fossilized skeleton of the Pleistocene wolf Canis dirus, or dire wolf - †Canis latrans – or unidentified comparable form
- †Canis lupus
- †Carex
- Carya
- Chara
- Chelydra
- †Chelydra serpentina – or unidentified comparable form
- Chrysemys
- †Chrysemys picta – or unidentified comparable form
- Coluber
- Comptonia – or unidentified comparable form
- Cyperus
- Cypridopsis
- †Cypridopsis okeechobei – or unidentified related form
- †Cypridopsis vidua – or unidentified comparable form
- Elaphe
- Emydoidea
- †Emydoidea blandingii – or unidentified comparable form
- Equus
- †Equus complicatus – or unidentified comparable form
- Fagus
- †Fagus grandifolia – or unidentified comparable form
- Geomys
- †Geomys adamsi – or unidentified comparable form
- †Geomys bursarius – or unidentified comparable form
- †Hemiauchenia – or unidentified comparable form
- †Hesperotestudo
- †Hypolagus
- †Hypolagus fontinalis – or unidentified comparable form
- Lynx
- †Lynx rufus – or unidentified comparable form
- Lyonia – or unidentified comparable form
- †Mammut
Restoration of a Mammut americanum, or American mastodon
- Marmota
- Mephitis
- Microtus
- †Microtus ochrogaster – or unidentified comparable form
- Mustela
- †Mylohyus
- Neotoma
- †Neotoma floridana – or unidentified comparable form
- Nerodia
- †Nerodia erythrogaster – or unidentified comparable form
- Odocoileus
A living Odocoileus virginianus, or white-tailed deer
- Ogmodontomys
- †Ogmodontomys pipecreekensis – type locality for species
- †Oxalis
- †Paleoheterodon
- Panthera
- †Paracoluber
- Parascalops
- Peromyscus
- †Peromyscus leucopus – or unidentified comparable form
- Platanus
Restoration of a herd of alarmed Miocene-Pleistocene peccaries of the genus Platygonus. Charles R. Knight (1922). - †Platygonus vetus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Plionarctos
- †Pliophenacomys
- †Pliophenacomys koenigswaldi – type locality for species
- Polygonum
- Populus
- †Populus deltoides – or unidentified comparable form
- †Potamocypris
- †Potamocypris unicaudata – or unidentified related form
- †Potamogeton
- †Potentilla
- †Rana
- †Rana catesbeiana – or unidentified comparable form
- Rumex
- Salix
- †Scirpus
Life restoration of the Pleistocene-Holocene saber-tooth cat Smilodon - Spermophilus
- Spilogale
- †Spilogale putorius – or unidentified comparable form
- †Symmetrodontomys
- †Symmetrodontomys daamsi – type locality for species
- Synaptomys
Restoration of the Miocene-Pliocene rhinoceros Teleoceras - Thamnophis
- Trachemys
- †Trachemys scripta – or unidentified comparable form
- Urocyon
- Ursus
- †Ursus americanus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Verbena
- †Viola
- Vitis
- Vulpes
- †Xanthium
References
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 7 August 2017.
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