This list of the Cenozoic life of Virginia contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose
fossilized remains have been reported from
within the US state of
Virginia and are between 66 million and 10,000 years of age.
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 dirus
Diagram illustrating the largest (grey) and most conservative (red) size estimates of the Miocene-Pliocene shark Carcharocles megalodon (sometimes Carcharodon or Otodusmegalodon) with a
whale shark (violet),
great white shark (green), and anachronistic
human (black) to scale †Otodus megalodon