This list of the prehistoric life of Alaska contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Alaska .
The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Alaska.
Selected Paleozoic taxa of Alaska [ edit ]
Selected Mesozoic taxa of Alaska [ edit ]
This list of the Mesozoic life of Alaska contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Alaska and are between 252.17 and 66 million years of age.
Selected Cenozoic taxa of Alaska [ edit ]
This list of the Cenozoic life of Alaska contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Alaska and are between 66 million and 10,000 years of age.
Acanthocardia
Acirsa
Acmaea
Agonum
†Ainus
A living Alces , or moose Alces
Alnus
Alopex
Alvania
Amara
Amauropsis
Ancistrolepis
Angulus
†Anomalosipho – tentative report
Anomia – tentative report
Aphaenogaster
Arca
Arctica
†Arctodus
Argobuccinum
Life restoration of the Oligocene river dolphin Arktocara †Arktocara – type locality for genus
Asaphidion
Asinus
Astarte
Astrangia
†Aturia
Balanus
Bembidion
Beringius
Betula
Bibio
Bison
Mummified specimen found in Alaska of the Pleistocene-Holocene Bison priscus , or steppe bison. This specimen, known as "Blue Babe" after the blue ox of Paul Bunyan folklore, derives its unusual coloration from a chemical reaction between the phosphorus in its skin and iron in the surrounding soil to produce a coating of vivianite . †Bison priscus
†Bootherium
Boreotrophon
Brachidontes
†Branchioplax
Buccella
Buccinum
Bulbus
Cadulus
Calliostoma
Callorhinus
Calyptraea
Camponotus
Cancellaria
Canis
Carabus
†Carex
Caryophyllia
Cassidulina
Castalia
Castanea
Cepheus
Fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Pleistocene cervid Cervalces , or the stag moose †Cervalces
Cervus
Ceutorhynchus – tentative report
Chama
Chione
Chlamys
†Chrysodomus – tentative report
Chrysolina
Cibicides
Cingula
Shell of a Clinocardium cockle Clinocardium
Colus
Corbicula
Corbula
†Cornwallius
†Corylus
Crenella
Crepidula
Cryptonatica
Cyclocardia
Cylichna
Cyperus
Delphinapterus – tentative report
Dentalium
Fossilized cranium of the Miocene seal Desmatophoca †Desmatophoca – tentative report
Diacheila
Dicrostonyx
Dioon
Dyschirius
Echinarachnius
Echinophoria
Elphidium
Enhydra
Enicmus
†Epipremnum
Shell of an Epitonium wentletrap sea snail Epitonium
Equus
Erignathus
Erigone
Eschrichtius
Eumetopias
†Eumorphocorystes
Euspira
Evalea
†Exilia – tentative report
Fossilized foliage of the Cretaceous-Oligocene flowering plant Flabellaria †Flabellaria
Fulgoraria
Gari
Georissus
Globigerina
Glycymeris
Helophorus
Hiatella
Hinnites – tentative report
Histriophoca
Homalopoma – tentative report
†Hydrodamalis
Isurus
†Kolponomos – or unidentified comparable form
Lasiopodomys
Lathrobium
Laurus
Leistus
Lemmus
Leptothorax
Leukoma
Limatula
Liocyma
Liomesus
Shells in differing orientation of a Littorina sea snail, or periwinkle Littorina
†Lora
Lunatia
Lyonsia
Macoma
Macrocallista – tentative report
Magnolia
†Mammut
†Mammuthus
Margarites
Marmota
Martesia – tentative report
Mathilda
Messor
†Metacarcinus
Micropeplus
Microtus
Modiolus
Musculus
†Mya
Fruit of a living Myrica , or firetree Myrica
Mytilus
Natica
Nebria
Neoconorbina
Neptunea
Neverita
Notiophilus
Nucula
Ochotona
Odobenus
Oenopota
†Osmunda
Ostrea
Ovibos
Ovis
†Oxytoma
Pagophilus
Palliolum
Pandora
Papyridea
Patrobus
†Perse
Phenacomys
Phoca
Picea
Pinus
Pitar
†Planera
Plicifusus
Polinices
Montage of photographs in spring (top left), summer (top right), autumn (bottom left), and winter (bottom right) of Populus , or poplar tree Populus
Portlandia
†Portunites
†Predicrostonyx
†Protocardia – tentative report
†Protochelydra
Protothaca
Pteris
Pterostichus
Puncturella
Purpura
Pusa – or unidentified related form
Pyrgo
Pyrulofusus
Quercus
Quinqueloculina
Rangifer
Rhabdus
Rosalina
†Rotalia
Saiga
Saxidomus
Scaphander
†Scutella
Sequoia
Serripes
Siliqua
Shell of the whelk sea snail Siphonalia Siphonalia
Sorex
Spermophilus
Spirorbis
Spirotropis
Spisula
Stenus
Strongylocentrotus
†Symphoricarpos
Tachyrhynchus
Taxodium
Tellina
Terebratula
Thracia
Thyasira
Tonicella
Trichotropis
†Tsuga
Turritella
Ulmus
Ursus
†Vaccinium
Venericardia
Vitis
Volutopsius
Vulpes
Xysticus
Yoldia
Lists of the prehistoric life of the United States by state
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