List of the prehistoric life of Georgia (U.S. state)
This list of the prehistoric life of Georgia (U.S. state) contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Georgia (U.S. state).
Precambrian
The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Alabama.
Paleozoic
Selected Paleozoic taxa of Georgia
†Alethopteris
Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris - †Amplexus
- †Annularia
- †Archimedes
- †Asaphiscus
- †Atrypa
- †Augustoceras
- †Bonneterrina – tentative report
†CalamitesFossilized stems from the Carboniferous-Permian horsetail relative Calamites - †Callipteridium
- †Calymene
- †Calyptaulax
- †Camarotoechia
- †Cincinnetina
- †Columnaria
- †Constellaria
- †Coosella
- †Coosia
- †Cordaites
- †Cryptophragmus
†Cyrtoceras
Restoration of the Cambrian-Middle Devonian nautiloid cephalopod Cyrtoceras - †Dalmanitina
- †Dipleura
- †Elrathia
- †Elrathina – tentative report
- †Eospirifer
- †Favosites
- †Flexicalymene
- †Gonioceras
- †Hallopora
- †Isotelus
†Lepidodendron
Restoration of the Carboniferous-Late Triassic club moss relative Lepidodendron. Eli Heimans (1911). - †Lingula
- †Lithostrotion
- †Lyginopteris
- †Michelinoceras
- †Murchisonia
- †Neuropteris
- †Neuropteris flexuosa
- †Neuropteris heterophylla – or unidentified comparable form
- †Orthoceras
- †Pecopteris
- †Pecopteris elliptica – tentative report
- †Pelagiella
- †Pentamerus
- †Pentremites
- †Peronopsis
- †Phacops
- †Phragmolites
- †Platycrinites
- †Platystrophia
†Pleurodictyum
Fossil of the Silurian-Carboniferous tabulate coral Pleurodictyum - †Sigillaria
- †Solenopora
- †Sowerbyella
- †Sphenophyllum
- †Sphenopteris
- †Sphenopteris elegans – or unidentified comparable form
- †Sphenopteris pottsvillea
- †Spirifer
- †Stigmaria
- †Strophomena
- †Subulites
- †Tetradium
†Tricrepicephalus
Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Tricrepicephalus - †Valcouroceras
Mesozoic
Selected Mesozoic taxa of Georgia
- Acirsa
- Acteon
- †Acteonella
- †Aenona
†AgerostreaFossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous oyster Agerostrea - †Albertosaurus
- †Allonia – type locality for genus
- Amauropsis
- †Ancilla
- †Anomia
- †Anomoeodus
- †Arca
- Arrhoges
- Astarte
†BaculitesFossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Baculites - †Bedellia – type locality for genus
- Botula
- Brachidontes
- Cadulus
- Caestocorbula
- †Calliomphalus
- †Caveola
- Cerithiella
- †Cerithiella nodoliratum – or unidentified related form
Chiloscyllium
A living Chiloscyllium longtail carpet shark - Chiton
- Chlamys
- Cliona
- Corbula
- Crassostrea
- †Crenella
†Cretolamna
Fossil of the Early Cretaceous-Eocene shark Cretolamna - Cucullaea
- Cuspidaria
- Cylichna
†DeinosuchusRestoration of the Late Cretaceous Alligator relative Deinosuchus - Dentalium
- †Dolicholatirus
- †Enchodus
- †Eulima
- †Euspira
†Eutrephoceras
Illustration in multiple views of a fossilized shell of the Late Jurassic-Miocene nautiloid cephalopod Eutrephoceras - †Exogyra
- Gemmula
- Ginglymostoma
- Glossus
- Glycymeris
†Halisaurus
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Halisaurus - †Hamulus
- Heterodontus
- †Hybodus
- †Ischyrhiza
- Isognomon
- Lepisosteus
- Lima
- Limatula
- †Linearis
- †Linter
- †Lissodus
- Lithophaga
- Lopha
- †Mathilda
†Megalocoelacanthus
Fossilized skull of the Late Cretceous coelacanth fish Megalocoelacanthus - †Modiolus
- †Morea
- Nerita
- Nozeba
- Nucula
- Ostrea
- Panopea
- †Paralbula
- † Paranomia
- Pholadomya
- †Pinna
- †Placenticeras
†Platecarpus
Restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Platecarpus - Polinices
- †Prognathodon
- †Protocardia
- †Pseudocorax
- †Pteria
- †Pteridophyte
- †Pterotrigonia
- †Ptychodus
- †Ptychotrygon
- †Ptychotrygon triangularis – or unidentified comparable form
- Pycnodonte
- †Regnellidium
- †Rhombodus
- Ringicula
- Rissoa
- †Scapanorhynchus
- Seila
- Serpula
- †Sphenodiscus
Squalicorax
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous shark Squalicorax - Squatina
- †Stephanodus
- Teinostoma
- Tellina
- †Tenea
†Thoracosaurus
Fossilized skull of the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene gavial relative Thoracosaurus - Trachycardium
- Turritella
- Xenophora
†Xiphactinus
Life restoration of the Cretaceous bony fish Xiphactinus
Cenozoic
Selected Cenozoic taxa of Georgia
- Abra
- Acanthocardia
- Acar
Acteocina
Shells of Acteocina barrel-bubble sea snails - Aequipecten
- Aetobatus
- Agassizia
- Agkistrodon
- Aix
- Alligator
†Alligator mississippiensis
A living Alligator mississippiensis, or American alligator
- Alosa – or unidentified comparable form
- Alveopora
- Amauropsis
- †Ambystoma
- †Ambystoma maculatum – or unidentified comparable form
- †Ambystoma tigrinum
- Amnicola
- Amphiuma
- †Ampullina
- †Ampullinopsis
- Amusium
- Anadara
†Anadara brasiliana
Shell in multiple views of an Anadara brasiliana, or incongruous ark clam - †Anadara ovalis
- †Anadara transversa
- Anas
- †Anas acuta
- †Anas americana
- †Anas crecca
- †Anas discors
- †Anas platyrhynchos – or unidentified comparable form
- †Anas rubripes
- †Anas strepera
- Anolis
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Living male (on top) and female (bottom, with white stripe down her back) Anolis carolinensis, or Carolina anoles
- Anomia
- Apalone
- Arca
- Architectonica
- †Archosargus
- Arius
- Asio
- Astarte – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
Astrangia
An Astrangia stony coral - Astreopora
- Athleta – or unidentified comparable form
- Atrina
- Aythya
- Bairdiella
- †Bairdiella chrysoura – or unidentified comparable form
- Balistes
- Barbatia
- Bartramia
†Basilosaurus
Life restoration of the Eocene whale Basilosaurus - Bison
- †Bison bison – tentative report
- Bittium
- Blarina
- Bonasa
- Bucephala
†Bucephala albeola
A living Bucephala albeola, or bufflehead
- Bufo
- †Burnhamia
- Bursa
- Busycon
- †Calippus
- Callista
- Calyptraea
- Campanile
- Canis
- †Canis lupus – or unidentified comparable form
- Carcharhinus
- †Carcharhinus leucas
- †Carcharhinus macloti – or unidentified comparable form
- †Carcharhinus obscurus
- Carcharias
Carcharodon
A living Carcharodon shark - Cardita
- Carditamera
- Carphophis
- Carya
- Cassis
- Castor
- †Castoroides
- Catoptrophorus – or unidentified comparable form
- Cerithiopsis
- Cerithium
- Cervus
- Chama
- Chelydra
- Chlamys
- Chlorostoma
- Clypeaster
Coccolithus
Electron micrograph of a Coccolithus alga - Colaptes
- Colinus
- Coluber
- Conepatus
- Conomitra
- Conus
- Coragyps
- Corbula
- Corvus
- †Corvus brachyrhynchos
†Corvus corax
A living Corvus corax, or common raven
- Crassostrea
- Crepidula
- Crocodylus
- Crotalus
- Crucibulum
- Cucullaea
- Cyanocitta
- Cygnus
- †Cylindracanthus
- Cymatium
†Cynthiacetus
Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Eocene whale Cynthiacetus - Cypraea
- Dasyatis
- Dasypus
- Deirochelys
- Dentalium
- Diadophis
- Diastoma
- Didelphis
- Diodora
- Diploastrea
- †Discoaster
- Donax
†Dorudon
Dorsal and right lateral views of reconstructed skeleton of Dorudon atrox - Dosinia
- Dryocopus
- †Ectopistes
- Edaphodon
- Elops
- Epitonium
- Eptesicus
- †Eptesicus fuscus – or unidentified comparable form
- Equus
†Eremotherium
Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Pleistocene ground sloth Eremotherium - Eschrichtius
- †Eucastor
- Eupleura
- Falco
- Favites
- Felis
- †Fundulus
- Fusinus
- Galeocerdo
- Galeorhinus
- Gari
- Gastrochaena
- Gemma
†Georgiacetus – type locality for genus
Life restoration of the Eocene whale Georgiacetus - †Georgiacetus vogtlensis – type locality for species
- Ginglymostoma
- Glycymeris
- Glyptemys
- Goniopora
- Gopherus
- Haustator
Hemipristis
A living Hemipristis weasel shark - Hesperisternia
- †Hesperotestudo
- Heterodon
- Heterodontus
- Hexaplex
- †Hippotherium
†Holmesina
Life restoration of the Pleistocene armadillo relative Holmesina with a human to scale - Hyla
- Isurus
- Kinosternon
- †Lactophrys
- Laevicardium
- †Lagodon
- Lamna
- Lampropeltis
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A living Leopardus - Lepisosteus
- †Leptotragulus
- Lima
- †Linthia
- Liotia
- Liquidambar
- Lithophaga
- Littoraria
- Lontra
- Lopha
- Lophelia
- Lophodytes
†Lophodytes cucullatusA living Lophodytes cucullatus, or hooded merganser
- Lucina
- Lynx
- Lyria
- Macrocallista
- Mactra
- Malaclemys
- †Mammut
†Mammut americanum
Restoration of a Mammut americanum, or American mastodon
- †Mammuthus
- Margarites
- Marginella
- Marmota
- †Megalonyx
- †Megatherium
- Melanerpes
- Meleagris
- Melongena
- Mephitis
- Mercenaria
- Meretrix
- Mesalia
- Microtus
†Miracinonyx
Restoration of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Miracinonyx, or American cheetah - †Miracinonyx inexpectatus – or unidentified comparable form
- Mitra
- Modiolus
- †Monosaulax – or unidentified comparable form
- Mugil
- Mulinia
- Mustela
- †Mustela frenata – or unidentified comparable form
- Myliobatis
†Mylohyus
Fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Holocene peccary Mylohyus - Myotis
- †Myotis grisescens – or unidentified comparable form
- †Myotis lucifugus – or unidentified comparable form
- Nassarius
- Natica
- Nebrius
- Negaprion
- †Neochoerus
- †Neochoerus aesopi
- †Neochoerus pinckneyi – or unidentified comparable form
- Neofiber
- Neomonachus
†Neomonachus tropicalis
Illustration of the recently extinct Neomonachus tropicalis, or Caribbean monk seal
- Neotoma
- Nerita
- Neritina
- Nerodia
- Neverita
- Notophthalmus
- Nucula
- Nummulites
- Odocoileus
OdontaspisFossil teeth of Odontaspis winkleri from Khouribga (Morocco), 55-45 mya - Oliva
- Ondatra
- †Ontocetus
- †Opsanus
- Oryzomys
- Ostrea
- †Otodus
- Otus
- †Palaeolama
- †Palaeophis
- Panopea
- Panthera
†Paramylodon
Fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Pleistocene ground sloth Paramylodon - Pecten
- Pekania
- Periglypta
- Peromyscus
- †Peromyscus leucopus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Peromyscus maniculatus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Peromyscus polionotus – or unidentified comparable form
- Persicula
- Persististrombus
- Petricola
- Phyllodus
Physeter
A living Physeter macrocephalus, or sperm whale - †Physeterula
- †Physogaleus
- Pica
- Picoides
- Pipistrellus
- †Pipistrellus subflavus – or unidentified comparable form
- Pitar
- Pituophis
- Placopecten
- Planorbis
†Platygonus
Restoration of a herd of alarmed Miocene-Pleistocene peccaries of the genus Platygonus. Charles R. Knight (1922). - †Platygonus compressus – or unidentified comparable form
- Plethodon
- †Plethodon glutinosus – or unidentified comparable form
- Pleuromeris
- Plicatula
- Podilymbus
- Pogonias
- †Potamides
- Prionotus
- Pristis
- Procyon
- Pseudacris
- Pseudemys
- †Pseudemys concinna – or unidentified comparable form
†PseudhipparionReplica of a fossilized cranium of the Miocene horse Pseudhipparion - Pseudotriton
- Pteria – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- Pterynotus
- Puma
- Quercus
- Raja
- †Raja
- †Rana
- Rangia
- Rangifer
†Rangifer tarandus
A living Rangifer tarandus, or reindeer
- Rapana
- †Regina
- Rhinobatos
- Rhinoptera
- Rhizoprionodon
- Sayornis
- Scalopus
- Sceloporus
- Schizaster
- Schizoporella
- Sciurus
- †Scoliodon
- Scolopax
ScyliorhinusGroup of living Scyliorhinus catsharks - Semele – tentative report
- Siderastrea
- Sigmodon
- Sinum
- Siren
- †Siren intermedia – or unidentified comparable form
- Solemya
- Sorex
- Sphyraena
- Sphyrna
†Sphyrna tiburo
A living Sphyrna tiburo, or bonnethead shark - †Sphyrna zygaena
- Spilogale
- Spisula
- Spizella
- Spondylus
- Squatina
- Sternotherus
†StriatolamiaFossilized teeth of the Paleocene-Miocene sandshark Striatolamia - Strioterebrum
- Strombus
- Stylophora
- Sylvilagus
- Synaptomys
- Synodus
- Tamias – type locality for genus
- †Tamias aristus – type locality for species
- Tapirus
- Taxodium
- Teinostoma
†Teleoceras
Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Miocene-Pliocene rhinoceros Teleoceras - Tellina
- Teredo
- Terrapene
- Thamnophis
- Trachemys
- Trachycardium
- Trachyphyllia – tentative report
Tremarctos
A living Tremarctos, or spectacled bear - †Triaenodon
- Trichiurus
- Trochita
- Turris
- Turritella
- Tympanuchus
- Ulmus
- Urocyon
- Ursus
- Venericardia
- Xenophora
- Yoldia
- Zapus
†Zapus hudsonius
A living Zapus hudsonius, or meadow jumping mouse
References
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved December 17, 2021.