This list of the prehistoric life of Minnesota contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Minnesota.
Precambrian
The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Minnesota.
Paleozoic
Selected Paleozoic taxa of Minnesota
- † Actinoceras
- † Actinodiscus
- † Amorphognathus
- † Armenoceras
Reconstructive diagram (left) of a fossil (right) of the Ordovician sea urchin Bothriocidaris. The short spines which were attached to the tubercles are not drawn. - † Bumastus
- † Calymene
- † Cameroceras
- † Ceratopsis
- † Ceraurinella
- † Ceraurinus
- † Ceraurus
- † Charactoceras
- † Chasmatopora
- † Chidleyenoceras
- † Chirognathus
Assemblage of fossilized shells of the Ordovician brachiopod Cincinnetina - † Cincinnetina minnesotensis – type locality for species
- † Constellaria
- † Cordylodus
- † Cotteroceras
- † Crania
- † Craniops
- † Culumbodina
- † Curtognathus
- † Cyclonema
- † Cyptendoceras
- † Cyrtolites
- † Diplograptus
- † Ellesmeroceras
Fossilized shells and restored appearances of the Middle-Late Ordovician nautiloid cephalopod Endoceras - † Erratencrinurus
- † Fayettoceras – tentative report
- † Flexicalymene
- † Gabriceraurus
- † Geisonoceras
- † Glyptocrinus
- † Gonioceras
- † Grewingkia
- † Hallopora
- † Helcionopsis
- † Hindia
- † Holopea
- † Hypseloconus – type locality for genus
- † Icriodus
- † Illaenus
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus. - † Kentlandoceras
- † Kionoceras
- † Kirengella
- † Krausella
- † Lambeoceras
- † Lingula
- † Manitoulinoceras
- † Michelinoceras
- † Nanno
- † Ormoceras – tentative report
- † Orthoceras
- † Oulodus
- † Ozarkodina
- † Periodon
- † Phragmolites
- † Plaesiomys
- † Platystrophia
- † Plectoceras
Fossil of the Late Ordovician cystoid echinoderm Pleurocystites - † Polygnathus
- † Polygrammoceras
- † Pterotheca
- † Reedsoceras
- † Reteocrinus
- † Rigidella
- † Rioceras
Fossils of the Cambrian mollusc Scenella - † Similodonta
- † Skenidioides
- † Sowerbyella
- † Spyroceras
- † Stigmatella
- † Strepsodiscus
- †
Strophomena
- † Strophomena billingsi
- † Strophomena filitexta
- † Strophomena incurvata
- † Strophomena plattinensis – or unidentified comparable form
- † Subulites
- † Teichertoceras
- † Tryblidium
- † Ulrichoceras
Fossil of the Ordovician-Devonian sea star Urasterella - † Valcouroceras
- † Vellamo
- † Westonoceras
- † Whiteavesia
- † Zittelloceras
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Mesozoic
- † Acanthoceras
A living Acteon barrel bubble sea snail - † Amphidonte – tentative report
- † Anatimya
- Anatina
- † Anchura
Interior and exterior of a shell of an Anomia, or jingle shell - Aporrhais
- † Arcellites
- † Ariadnaesporites
- Azolla – or unidentified comparable form
- Barbatia
- Brachidontes
- † Calliomphalus – tentative report
Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Calycoceras - Carcharias
- † Cenocarcharias
- † Collignoniceras
- Coptothyris
- Corbula
- † Costatheca
- † Cretodus
Fossil of the Early Cretaceous-Eocene shark Cretolamna - †
Cymbophora
- † Cymbophora emmonsi
- † Cymbophora utahensis – tentative report
- † Dentalium
- Discradisca
- † Dunveganoceras
- † Epitonium
- † Etea – tentative report
Interior of a fossilized shell of the Jurassic-Cretaceous foam oyster Exogyra - †
Gervillia
- † Gervillia propleura – tentative report
- † Goolandia
- Granocardium
- Gyrodes
- †
Hybodus
- † Hybodus rajkovichi – type locality for species
Fossilized shell of the Early Jurassic-Late Cretaceous marine bivalve Inoceramus with a human indicating its size - † Ischyodus
- †
Legumen
- † Legumen planulatum – or unidentified comparable form
- † Leptosolen
- Lima
- †
Lingula
- † Lingula subspatulata – tentative report
- † Mesozoisynangia
- †
Metengonoceras
- † Metengonoceras acutum
- † Metengonoceras dumblei – or unidentified comparable form
- † Metengonoceras dumbli
- †
Metoicoceras
- † Metoicoceras bergquisti
- † Metoicoceras swallovi – or unidentified related form
- † Minerisporites
- † Molaspora
- † Mytiloides
- Nerita – tentative report
- Nucula
Fossilized tooth of the Late Cretaceous giant sawfish Onchopristis - Ostrea
- Parapholas
- † Pecten
- Pholadomya
- † Pinna
Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Placenticeras - Polinices
- † Prionocyclus
- †
Protolamna
- † Protolamna gigantea – type locality for species
- † Pseudoperna
- † Pteria
- Rostellaria
- † Sanoarca
- † Scaphites
- Serpula
- Siliqua
- † Spermatites
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous shark Squalicorax - Tapes (bivalve)
- Tellina
- † Tenellisporites
- Teredolites – tentative report
Fossilized skull of the Late Cretaceous crocodilian relative Terminonaris - † Terminonaris robusta – type locality for species
- † Volutoderma
- Vulsella
- † Watinoceras
- Yoldia
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Cenozoic
- Bison
- †
Mammut
Restoration of a Mammut americanum, or American mastodon
- † Mammuthus
References
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Cobban, William Aubrey (1977). "Characteristic marine molluscan fossils from the Dakota sandstone and intertongued Mancos Shale, west-central New Mexico". United States Geological Survey. Professional Paper. Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office: 21. doi: 10.3133/pp1009. Report 1009 PDF. Retrieved 6 November 2021.