This list of the Mesozoic life of Tennessee contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Tennessee and are between 252.17 and 66 million years of age.

A

• † Aciculiscala
  • † Aciculiscala acuta
• Acirsa
  • † Acirsa americana – type locality for species
  • † Acirsa cerithiformis
  • † Acirsa corrugata
  • † Acirsa cretacea
  • † Acirsa microstriata
  • † Acirsa wadei
• Acmaea
  • † Acmaea galea

• 

  † Acteon
  • † Acteon conicus – type locality for species
  • † Acteon ellipticus – type locality for species
  • † Acteon modicellus
  • † Acteon pistilliformis
  • † Acteon substriatus – type locality for species
• † Acteonina
  • † Acteonina orientalis – type locality for species
  • † Acteonina parva – type locality for species
• † Acutostrea
  • † Acutostrea plumosa
• † Aenona
  • † Aenona eufalensis
• Alderina
  • † Alderina nelsoni – type locality for species
• † Amaurellina
  • † Amaurellina stephensoni
• Amauropsis
  • † Amauropsis lirata – type locality for species
• † Ambigostrea
  • † Ambigostrea tecticosta
• Ammatophora
  • † Ammatophora cretacea – type locality for species
• Amphiblestrum
  • † Amphiblestrum denticulatum – type locality for species

• 

  † Ampullina
  • † Ampullina lirata
  • † Ampullina potens – type locality for species
  • † Ampullina umbilica
• Amuletum
  • † Amuletum fasciolatum
  • † Amuletum macnairyensis
• † Anatimya
  • † Anatimya lata
• † Anchura
  • † Anchura calcaris – type locality for species
  • † Anchura convexa – type locality for species
  • † Anchura noakensis – tentative report
  • † Anchura pergracilis
  • † Anchura quadrilirata – type locality for species
  • † Anchura substriata – type locality for species
• † Ancilla
  • † Ancilla acutula
• † Anomalofusus
  • † Anomalofusus substriatus

• 

  † Anomia
  • † Anomia argentaria
  • † Anomia perlineata – type locality for species
  • † Anomia tellinoides
• † Anomoeodus
• Anteglosia
  • † Anteglosia subornata
  • † Anteglosia tennesseensis
• † Aphrodina
  • † Aphrodina tippana
• † Arca
  • † Arca mcnairyensis – type locality for species
  • † Arca pergracilis – type locality for species
  • † Arca securiculata – type locality for species
• Arctica
  • † Arctica incerta – type locality for species
• † Aspidolithus
  • † Aspidolithus parcus
• † Astandes
  • † Astandes densatus

• 

  † Avitelmessus
  • † Avitelmessus grapsoideus

B

• 

  † Baculites
  • † Baculites grandis
  • † Baculites ovatus
• Barbatia
  • † Barbatia cochlearis – type locality for species
  • † Barbatia fractura – type locality for species
  • † Barbatia saffordi
• † Bellifusus
  • † Bellifusus angulicostatus
  • † Bellifusus curvicostatus
  • † Bellifusus spinosus
• † Belliscala – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Belliscala rockensis
• Berenicea
• † Beretra
  • † Beretra gracilis
  • † Beretra ripleyana
  • † Beretra speciosa
• † Bizarrus
  • † Bizarrus abnormalis – type locality for species
• † Boltenella
  • † Boltenella excellens
• Brachidontes
• † Buccinopsis
  • † Buccinopsis crassa
  • † Buccinopsis crassicostata
  • † Buccinopsis solida

C

• Cadulus
  • † Cadulus obnutus
• Caestocorbula
  • † Caestocorbula crassiplica
• Callianassa
  • † Callianassa mortoni
• † Calliomphalus
  • † Calliomphalus americanus – type locality for species
  • † Calliomphalus angustus
  • † Calliomphalus argenteus – type locality for species
  • † Calliomphalus argenteus spinosus
  • † Calliomphalus conanti
  • † Calliomphalus decoris
• Callopora
  • † Callopora anatina – type locality for species
  • † Callopora sulcata – type locality for species
  • † Callopora torquata – type locality for species

• 

  Cancellaria
  • † Cancellaria acuta – type locality for species
  • † Cancellaria macnairyensis
• † Caprinella
  • † Caprinella coraloidea
• Capulus
  • † Capulus corrugatus – type locality for species
  • † Capulus monroei
• Cardium [ fr; nl; sv]
  • † Cardium kuemmeli
  • † Cardium stantoni – type locality for species
• † Caveola
  • † Caveola acuta
• Cerithiopsis
  • † Cerithiopsis meeki – type locality for species
  • † Cerithiopsis quadrilirata – type locality for species

• 

  Cerithium
  • † Cerithium nodoliratum – type locality for species
  • † Cerithium percostatum – type locality for species
  • † Cerithium semirugatum – type locality for species
  • † Cerithium weeksi – type locality for species
• Charonia
  • † Charonia univaricosum – type locality for species
• Chiton
  • † Chiton cretaceous
• † Cinulia
  • † Cinulia paraquensis – type locality for species
• Clavagella
  • † Clavagella armata

• 

  Cliona
• † Colombellina
  • † Colombellina americana – type locality for species
• Conopeum
  • † Conopeum ovatum – type locality for species
  • † Conopeum parviporum – type locality for species
  • † Conopeum prismaticum – type locality for species
  • † Conopeum wadei – type locality for species
• † Conorbis
  • † Conorbis mcnairyensis
• Corbula
  • † Corbula paracrassa – type locality for species
  • † Corbula suffalciata – type locality for species
  • † Corbula torta
  • † Corbula williardi – type locality for species
• † Crania – tentative report
  • † Crania americana – type locality for species
• Crassatella
  • † Crassatella linteus
  • † Crassatella vadosa
• † Crenella
  • † Crenella elegantula
  • † Crenella serica
• † Creonella
  • † Creonella secunda – type locality for species
  • † Creonella subangulata
  • † Creonella triplicata
• † Cryptoconus – tentative report
  • † Cryptoconus macnairyensis
• † Cryptorhytis
  • † Cryptorhytis nobilis – type locality for species
  • † Cryptorhytis torta – type locality for species

• 

  Cucullaea
  • † Cucullaea capax
  • † Cucullaea littlei
  • † Cucullaea vulgaris
• Cyclina
  • † Cyclina magna – type locality for species
  • † Cyclina parva
• Cylichna
  • † Cylichna incisa
  • † Cylichna intermissia
  • † Cylichna intermissia curta
  • † Cylichna pessumata
  • † Cylichna recta
• † Cylindrotruncatum
  • † Cylindrotruncatum demersum
• † Cymbophora
  • † Cymbophora gracilis
• † Cyprimeria
  • † Cyprimeria alta
  • † Cyprimeria depressa

D

• † Dakoticancer
  • † Dakoticancer overana

• 

  † Dentalium
  • † Dentalium inornatum – type locality for species
  • † Dentalium intercalatum – type locality for species
  • † Dentalium ripleyanum
• † Deussenia
  • † Deussenia bellalirata
  • † Deussenia microstriata
• † Dircella
  • † Dircella spillmani

• 

  † Discoscaphites
  • † Discoscaphites iris
• † Dolicholatirus
  • † Dolicholatirus torquatus
• † Dreissensia
  • † Dreissensia tippana
• † Drepanochilus
  • † Drepanochilus quadriliratus
• † Drilluta
  • † Drilluta communis
  • † Drilluta dimurorum – type locality for species
  • † Drilluta distans
  • † Drilluta major
• † Dysnoetopora – type locality for genus
  • † Dysnoetopora celleporoides – type locality for species

E

• † Ecphora
  • † Ecphora proquadricostata
• † Ellipsoscapha
  • † Ellipsoscapha cylindrica

• 

  † Enchodus
• † Endoptygma
  • † Endoptygma leprosa
• † Enoploclytia
  • † Enoploclytia sculpta – type locality for species
• † Eoacteon
  • † Eoacteon ellipticus
  • † Eoacteon linteus
  • † Eoacteon percultus
• † Eothoracosaurus
  • † Eothoracosaurus mississippiensis
• † Eriptycha – tentative report
  • † Eriptycha americana – type locality for species
• † Etea
  • † Etea carolinesis
• † Eucycloscala
  • † Eucycloscala tuberculata
• † Eulima
  • † Eulima clara – type locality for species
  • † Eulima impressa – type locality for species
  • † Eulima laevigata – type locality for species
  • † Eulima persimplica
• † Euspira
  • † Euspira halli
  • † Euspira rectilabrum
• Euthriofusus – tentative report
  • † Euthriofusus convexus
  • † Euthriofusus mesozoicus
• † Eutrephoceras
  • † Eutrephoceras dekayi
• † Exilia
  • † Exilia ripleyana – type locality for species

• 

  † Exogyra
  • † Exogyra cancellata
  • † Exogyra costata

F

• Falsifusus
  • † Falsifusus convexus – type locality for species
  • † Falsifusus mesozoicus

• 

  Fasciolaria – tentative report
  • † Fasciolaria ripleyana – type locality for species
• † Frurionella – type locality for genus
  • † Frurionella grandipora – type locality for species
  • † Frurionella parvipora – type locality for species
• † Fulgerca
  • † Fulgerca attenuata – type locality for species
• † Fusimilis
  • † Fusimilis proxima
  • † Fusimilis tippanus

G

• Gastrochaena
  • † Gastrochaena americana
• † Gegania
  • † Gegania parabella

• 

  Gemmula
  • † Gemmula cretacea
• Gephyrotes
  • † Gephyrotes lamellaria – type locality for species
• † Gervilliopsis
  • † Gervilliopsis ensiformis
• Glossus
  • † Glossus conradi

• 

  Glycymeris
  • † Glycymeris lacertosa – type locality for species
  • † Glycymeris microsulci – type locality for species
  • † Glycymeris subcrenata – type locality for species
• † Goniocylichna – type locality for genus
  • † Goniocylichna bisculpturata – type locality for species
• † Graciliala
  • † Graciliala calcaris
  • † Graciliala decemlirata
• † Granocardium
  • † Granocardium dumosum
  • † Granocardium tenuistriatum
  • † Granocardium tippananum
• † Graphidula
  • † Graphidula cancellata
  • † Graphidula obscura
  • † Graphidula pergracilis
• † Gryphaeostrea
  • † Gryphaeostrea vomer
• Gyrodes
  • † Gyrodes alveata
  • † Gyrodes americanus
  • † Gyrodes crenata
  • † Gyrodes major – type locality for species
  • † Gyrodes spillmani
  • † Gyrodes supraplicatus

H

• † Hamulus
  • † Hamulus angulatus
  • † Hamulus onyx
  • † Hamulus squamosus
• † Haplovoluta
  • † Haplovoluta bicarinata
• † Helicaulax
  • † Helicaulax formosa
• † Helicoceras
  • † Helicoceras navarroense
• † Hemiacirsa
  • † Hemiacirsa cretacea
• Hemiaster
  • † Hemiaster lacunosus
  • † Hemiaster stella
  • † Hemiaster ungula
• † Hercorhyncus
  • † Hercorhyncus bicarinatus
  • † Hercorhyncus pagodaformis
  • † Hercorhyncus tennesseensis
• Heteropora
  • † Heteropora tennesseensis – type locality for species
• † Hippocampoides
  • † Hippocampoides liratus – type locality for species
  • † Hippocampoides serratus

• 

  † Hoploparia
  • † Hoploparia tennesseensis – type locality for species
• † Hydrotribulus
  • † Hydrotribulus nodosus

I

• † Icanotia
  • † Icanotia pulchra – type locality for species

• 

  † Inoceramus
  • † Inoceramus proximus
  • † Inoceramus sagensis
• † Inoperna
  • † Inoperna carolinensis
• † Ischyrhiza
  • † Ischyrhiza mira

J

• Juliacorbula
  • † Juliacorbula monmouthensis

L

• † Lacrimiforma
  • † Lacrimiforma secunda
• † Latiala
  • † Latiala lobata – type locality for species

• 

  Latiaxis
  • † Latiaxis serratus
• † Laxispira
  • † Laxispira lumbricalis
• † Leda
  • † Leda whitfieldi
• † Legumen
  • † Legumen planulatum
• Leiostraca
  • † Leiostraca cretacea
• † Lemniscolittorina
  • † Lemniscolittorina berryi
• † Leptosolen
  • † Leptosolen biplicata
• Limatula
  • † Limatula woodsi – type locality for species
• Limopsis
  • † Limopsis meeki – type locality for species
  • † Limopsis perbrevis – type locality for species
• † Linearis
  • † Linearis metastriata
  • † Linearis ornatissima
• † Liopeplum
  • † Liopeplum canalis
  • † Liopeplum carinatum – type locality for species
  • † Liopeplum cretaceum
  • † Liopeplum leioderma
  • † Liopeplum leiodermum
  • † Liopeplum subjugosum
• † Liopistha
  • † Liopistha inflata
  • † Liopistha protexta
• † Liothyris
  • † Liothyris carolinensis
• † Lirosoma
  • † Lirosoma cretacea
• Lithophaga
  • † Lithophaga conchafodentis
  • † Lithophaga ripleyana

• 

  Littorina
  • † Littorina berryi – type locality for species
• † Lomirosa
  • † Lomirosa cretacea
• † Longoconcha
  • † Longoconcha tennesseensis
• Lopha
  • † Lopha falcata
• † Lowenstamia
  • † Lowenstamia liratus
• † Lucina
  • † Lucina ripleyana – type locality for species
• † Lupira
  • † Lupira turbinea
  • † Lupira variabilis

M

• † Mammila
  • † Mammila americana – type locality for species
• Martesia
  • † Martesia procurva – type locality for species
  • † Martesia truncata – type locality for species
• † Mataxa
  • † Mataxa elegans
• † Mathilda
  • † Mathilda ripleyana
• † Mathildia
  • † Mathildia ripleyana – type locality for species
• Melanatria
  • † Melanatria cretacea – type locality for species

• 

  Membranipora
  • † Membranipora crassimargo – type locality for species
• Membraniporella
  • † Membraniporella irregularis – type locality for species
• Meretrix
  • † Meretrix cretacea
  • † Meretrix eufaulensis
• † Mesorhytis
  • † Mesorhytis obscura – type locality for species
• † Mesostoma
  • † Mesostoma americanum – type locality for species
  • † Mesostoma costatum – type locality for species
• † Metopaster
  • † Metopaster tennesseensis – type locality for species
• † Micrabacia
  • † Micrabacia marylandica
• Micropora
  • † Micropora baccata – type locality for species
• † Mitridomus
  • † Mitridomus ripleyana
• † Morea
  • † Morea cancellaria
  • † Morea corsicanensis
  • † Morea marylandica

• 

  † Mosasaurus
  • † Mosasaurus maximus
• † Mystriopora – tentative report
  • † Mystriopora stipata – type locality for species

N

• † Napulus
  • † Napulus reesidei
• † Neithea
  • † Neithea quinquecostata
• † Nemodon
  • † Nemodon eufaulensis
  • † Nemodon grandis – type locality for species
  • † Nemodon stantoni
• † Nonactaeonina
  • † Nonactaeonina orientalis
• † Notopocorystes
  • † Notopocorystes testacea – type locality for species

• 

  Nucula
  • † Nucula microconcentrica – type locality for species
  • † Nucula percrassa
• Nuculana
  • † Nuculana australis – type locality for species
• † Nudivagus
  • † Nudivagus simplicus

O

• † Obeliscus
  • † Obeliscus conellus
• † Odontobasis
  • † Odontobasis australis – type locality for species
• † Odontofusus
  • † Odontofusus curvicostata – type locality for species

• 

  † Odostomia
  • † Odostomia impressa – type locality for species
  • † Odostomia plicata – type locality for species
• † Oligoptycha
  • † Oligoptycha americana
• Opalia
  • † Opalia fistulosa
  • † Opalia wadei
• † Ornopsis
  • † Ornopsis digressa – type locality for species
  • † Ornopsis elevata
  • † Ornopsis glenni

• 

  Ostrea
  • † Ostrea bryani
  • † Ostrea mcnairyensis – type locality for species
  • † Ostrea monmouthensis
  • † Ostrea penegemmea – type locality for species

P

• † Paladmete
  • † Paladmete cancellaria
  • † Paladmete densata – type locality for species
  • † Paladmete gardnerae – type locality for species
• † Paleopsephaea – type locality for genus
  • † Paleopsephaea mutabilis – type locality for species
  • † Paleopsephaea pergracilis – type locality for species
• Panopea
  • † Panopea desica
• † Parafusus
  • † Parafusus callilateris
  • † Parafusus coloratus
  • † Parafusus saffordi
• † Paramorea
  • † Paramorea lirata
• † Paranomia
  • † Paranomia scabra
• † Parietiplicatum
  • † Parietiplicatum conicum
• † Parvivoluta – type locality for genus
  • † Parvivoluta concinna – type locality for species

• 

  † Pecten
  • † Pecten argillensis
  • † Pecten burlingtonensis
  • † Pecten quinquenarius
  • † Pecten simplicius
• †Pedalion
  • † Pedalion periridescens – type locality for species
• † Peneus
  • † Peneus wenasogensis – type locality for species
• Periploma
  • † Periploma applicata
• † Perissolax
  • † Perissolax whitfieldi
• Pholadomya
  • † Pholadomya conradi
  • † Pholadomya occidentalis
• † Piestochilus
  • † Piestochilus cancellatus – type locality for species
  • † Piestochilus pergracilis – type locality for species

• 

  † Plioplatecarpus
  • † Plioplatecarpus depressus
• † Podocratus
  • † Podocratus canadensis
• Polinices
  • † Polinices kummeli
  • † Polinices stephensoni – type locality for species
  • † Polinices umbilica – type locality for species
• † Polyascosoecia
  • † Polyascosoecia tripora – type locality for species
• † Postligata
  • † Postligata crenata – type locality for species
  • † Postligata wordeni
• † Praeleda
  • † Praeleda compar
• † Prognathodon
• † Promathildia
  • † Promathildia cretacea – type locality for species
• † Protobusycon
  • † Protobusycon cretaceum
• † Protocardia
  • † Protocardia parahillana – type locality for species
• † Pseudocardia
  • † Pseudocardia gregaria
  • † Pseudocardia subangulata – type locality for species
  • † Pseudocardia subcircula – type locality for species
• † Pseudolimea
  • † Pseudolimea reticulata
• Pseudomalaxis
  • † Pseudomalaxis amplificata – type locality for species
  • † Pseudomalaxis pilsbryi
  • † Pseudomalaxis ripleyana – type locality for species
• † Pteria
  • † Pteria percompressa – type locality for species
  • † Pteria petrosa
• † Pterocerella
  • † Pterocerella poinsettiformis
  • † Pterocerella tippana

• 

  † Pterotrigonia
  • † Pterotrigonia angulicostata
  • † Pterotrigonia thoracica
• † Ptychosyca
  • † Ptychosyca inornata
• † Pugnellus
  • † Pugnellus densatus
  • † Pugnellus goldmani
• Pulvinites
  • † Pulvinites argentea

• 

  Pycnodonte
  • † Pycnodonte vesiculare
• † Pyrifusus
  • † Pyrifusus ejundicus
  • † Pyrifusus subdensatus
  • † Pyrifusus subliratus – type locality for species
• † Pyropsis
  • † Pyropsis interstriatus
  • † Pyropsis perornatus
  • † Pyropsis proxima – type locality for species
  • † Pyropsis spinosus

R

• † Reinhardites
  • † Reinhardites anthophorus
• † Remera
  • † Remera stephensoni
• † Remnita
  • † Remnita anomalocostata
  • † Remnita biacuminata
• † Rhombopsis
  • † Rhombopsis microstriatus – type locality for species
  • † Rhombopsis orientalis – type locality for species
• Ringicula
  • † Ringicula pulchella

• 

  Rissoina
  • † Rissoina fragilis – type locality for species
  • † Rissoina subornata – type locality for species
  • † Rissoina tennesseensis – type locality for species
• Rostellaria – tentative report
  • † Rostellaria mcnairyensis – type locality for species

S

• † Sargana
  • † Sargana stantoni

• 

  † Saurodon – tentative report
• † Scala
  • † Scala sillimani
• Scalpellum
• † Scambula
  • † Scambula perplana
• Scaphander
  • † Scaphander rarus – type locality for species

• 

  † Scaphites
  • † Scaphites reesidei – type locality for species
• † Schizobasis
  • † Schizobasis depressa
  • † Schizobasis immersa – type locality for species
• Seila
  • † Seila quadrilirata
• † Seminola
  • † Seminola crassa
  • † Seminola solida
• Serpula
  • † Serpula adnata – type locality for species
  • † Serpula pervermiformis – type locality for species
• Serpulorbis
  • † Serpulorbis marylandica
  • † Serpulorbis tennesseensis – type locality for species
• † Serrifusus
  • † Serrifusus tennesseensis – type locality for species

• 

  † Siphonaria
  • † Siphonaria wieseri – type locality for species
• † Solariorbis
  • † Solariorbis clara
• † Solyma
  • † Solyma elliptica
• † Stantonella – type locality for genus
  • † Stantonella subnodosa – type locality for species
• † Stephanophyllia
  • † Stephanophyllia cribraria
• Striarca
• † Striaticostatum
  • † Striaticostatum pondi
• † Syncyclonema
  • † Syncyclonema simplicius

T

• † Tectaplica
  • † Tectaplica simplica
• Teinostoma
  • † Teinostoma prenanum – type locality for species

• 

  Tellina
  • † Tellina multiconcentrica – type locality for species
• † Tellinimera
  • † Tellinimera eborea
• † Tenea
  • † Tenea parilis
• † Teredo
  • † Teredo rectus – type locality for species
• † Thylacus
  • † Thylacus cretaceus
• † Tintorium
  • † Tintorium pagodiforme
• † Tornatellaea
  • † Tornatellaea cretacea – type locality for species
  • † Tornatellaea globulosa – type locality for species

• 

  † Toxochelys
  • † Toxochelys latiremis
• Trichotropis
  • † Trichotropis imperfecta – type locality for species
• † Trigonia
  • † Trigonia eufalensis
• † Trochifusus
  • † Trochifusus interstriatus – type locality for species
  • † Trochifusus perornatus – type locality for species
  • † Trochifusus spinosus – type locality for species
• Trochus
  • † Trochus ripleyanus – type locality for species
• † Troostella – type locality for genus
  • † Troostella perimpressa – type locality for species
  • † Troostella substriatus
• † Tuba
  • † Tuba parabella – type locality for species

• 

  Turbinella
  • † Turbinella major – type locality for species
  • † Turbinella variabilis – type locality for species
• Turboella
  • † Turboella costata
• † Turricula
  • † Turricula amica
  • † Turricula anomalocostata – type locality for species
  • † Turricula biacuminata – type locality for species
  • † Turricula fasciolata – type locality for species
  • † Turricula gracilis – type locality for species
  • † Turricula mcnairyensis – type locality for species
  • † Turricula ripleyana
• Turris
  • † Turris constricta – type locality for species
  • † Turris proxima – type locality for species
• Turritella
  • † Turritella bilira
  • † Turritella encrinoides
  • † Turritella macnairyensis
  • † Turritella mcnairyensis – type locality for species
  • † Turritella paravertebroides
  • † Turritella tippana
  • † Turritella trilira
  • † Turritella vertebroides

U

• † Unicardium
  • † Unicardium concentricum – type locality for species
• † Urceolabrum
  • † Urceolabrum tuberculatum

V

• † Variseila
  • † Variseila meeki
• † Veniella
  • † Veniella conradi
• † Vetericardia
  • † Vetericardia crenalirata
• † Volutoderma
  • † Volutoderma appressa – type locality for species
  • † Volutoderma protracta
  • † Volutoderma tennesseensis – type locality for species
• † Volutomorpha
  • † Volutomorpha aspera
  • † Volutomorpha gigantea – type locality for species
  • † Volutomorpha mutabilis – type locality for species
  • † Volutomorpha retifera – or unidentified comparable form

W

• † Wadeopsammia
  • † Wadeopsammia nodosa – type locality for species
• † Weeksia
  • † Weeksia amplificata
• † Woodsella – type locality for genus
  • † Woodsella typica – type locality for species
• † Wormaldia
  • † Wormaldia praemissa – type locality for species

Y

• Yoldia
  • † Yoldia longifrons
  • † Yoldia multiconcentrica – type locality for species

References

• Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 7 August 2017.