List of the Mesozoic life of Georgia (U.S. state)

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

A

  • Aciculiscala
    • Aciculiscala acuta
  • Acirsa
    • Acirsa americana – or unidentified related form
    • Acirsa flexicostata
  • Acteon
    • Acteon cicatricosus
  • Acteonella
  • Acutostrea
    • Acutostrea plumosa
  • Aenona
    • Aenona eufaulensis
    • Aenona georgiana
  • Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous oyster Agerostrea
    Agerostrea
    • Agerostrea mesenterica
  • Albertosaurus
  • Aliofusus
  • Allonia – type locality for genus
    • Allonia decandra – type locality for species
  • Amaurellina
  • Amauropsis
  • Ambigostrea
    • Ambigostrea tecticosta
  • Anatimya
    • Anatimya anteradiata
  • Anchura
    • Anchura noakensis – tentative report
  • Ancilla
    • Ancilla acutula
  • Androdecidua – type locality for genus
    • Androdecidua endressii – type locality for species
  • Anomaeodus
    • Anomaeodus phaseolus
  • Interior and exterior of a shell of an Anomia, or jingle shell
    Anomia
    • Anomia argentaria
    • Anomia ornata
    • Anomia preolmstedi
    • Anomia tellinoides
  • Anomoeodus
    • Anomoeodus phaseolus
  • Antiquacupula – type locality for genus
    • Antiquacupula sulcata – type locality for species
  • Aphrodina
    • Aphrodina tippana
  • Interior of the shell of an Arca ark clam
    Arca
  • Arrhoges
  • Astarte
    • Astarte culebrensis
  • Ataphrus

B

  • Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Baculites
    Baculites
  • Bathytormus
    • Bathytormus pteropsis
  • Bedellia – type locality for genus
    • Bedellia pusilla – type locality for species
  • Bellifusus
    • Bellifusus angulicostatus – or unidentified related form
    • Bellifusus curvicostatus
    • Bellifusus spinosus
  • Beretra
  • Boodlepteris – or unidentified comparable form
  • Borodinopristis
    • Borodinopristis ackermani – type locality for species
    • Borodinopristis schwimmeri – type locality for species
  • Borodinoptristis
    • Borodinoptristis schwimmeri
  • Botula
  • Brachidontes
  • Brachyrhizodus
    • Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis
  • Buccinopsis
    • Buccinopsis crassicostata

C

D

E

F

  • Flemingostrea
    • Flemingostrea cretacea
    • Flemingostrea subspatula
  • Fulgerca
    • Fulgerca attenuata – or unidentified related form

G

  • Gemmula
  • Gervilliopsis
    • Gervilliopsis ensiformis
  • A living Ginglymostoma nurse shark
    Ginglymostoma
    • Ginglymostoma globidens
  • Glossus
  • Glycymeris
  • Goniocylichna
  • Graciliala
    • Graciliala decemlirata
  • Granocardium
    • Granocardium bowenae – or unidentified comparable form
    • Granocardium kuemmeli
    • Granocardium kummeli
    • Granocardium lowei
    • Granocardium tippananum
    • Granocardium tippanum
  • Graphidula
  • Gryphaeostrea
    • Gryphaeostrea vomer
  • Gyrodes
    • Gyrodes spillmani
    • Gyrodes supraplicatus
  • Gyrostrea
    • Gyrostrea cortex

H

  • Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Halisaurus
    Halisaurus
  • Hamulus
    • Hamulus huntensis – tentative report
    • Hamulus onyx
  • Harduinia
    • Harduinia micrococcus
    • Harduinia mortonis
  • Helicaulax
    • Helicaulax formosa
  • Hercorhynchus
  • Heterodontus
  • Restoration of two of the Permian-Late Cretaceous cartilaginous fish Hybodus
    Hybodus

I

J

  • Juliacorbula
    • Juliacorbula monmouthensis

L

  • Lacrimiforma
    • Lacrimiforma secunda
  • Latiala
    • Latiala lobata – or unidentified comparable form
  • Laxispira
    • Laxispira monilifera
  • Legumen
    • Legumen carolinensis – or unidentified comparable form
    • Legumen ellipticum
  • Illustration of a living Lepisosteus, or gar
    Lepisosteus
  • Leptosolen
    • Leptosolen biplicata
  • Lima
    • Lima pelagica
  • Limatula
    • Limatula acutilineata
  • Limopsis
    • Limopsis meeki
  • Linearis
    • Linearis magnoliensis
    • Linearis metastriata
    • Linearis pectinis
  • Linter
    • Linter acutata
  • Liopeplum
    • Liopeplum canalis
    • Liopeplum cretaceum
  • Liopistha
    • Liopistha protexta
  • Liothyris
    • Liothyris carolinensis
  • Electron micrograph of fossilized teeth from the Early Jurassic-Early Cretaceous freshwater shark Lissodus
    Lissodus
    • Lissodus babulskii
  • Lithophaga
  • Longitubus
  • Longoconcha
  • Lopha
  • Lowenstamia
    • Lowenstamia cucullata
  • Lycettia
    • Lycettia tippana
    • Lycettia tippanus

M

  • Malletia
    • Malletia longfrons
    • Malletia longifrons
    • Malletia stephensoni
  • Mathilda
    • Mathilda cedarensis – or unidentified comparable form
    • Mathilda corona
    • Mathilda ripleyana – or unidentified related form
  • Mauldinia
  • Fossilized skull of the Late Cretceous coelacanth fish Megalocoelacanthus
    Megalocoelacanthus
  • Micrabacia
    • Micrabacia marylandica
    • Micrabacia radiata
  • Micreschara – tentative report
  • Microdontaspis – type locality for genus
    • Microdontaspis tenuis – type locality for species

Modiolus

N

  • Napulus
    • Napulus octoliratus
  • Nemodon
    • Nemodon eufalensis
    • Nemodon eufaulensis
    • Nemodon grandis – or unidentified comparable form
  • Nerita
  • Noferinia – type locality for genus
    • Noferinia fusicarpa – type locality for species
  • Nozeba
  • Interior of a fossilized shell of the Early Ordovician-modern marine bivalve Nucula
    Nucula
  • Nuculana
    • Nuculana rostratruncata
    • Nuculana whitfieldi
  • Nymphalucina
    • Nymphalucina linearia

O

  • Odontobasis
  • Opertochasma
  • Shell of an Ostrea, or oyster
    Ostrea

P

  • Paladmete
    • Paladmete cancellaria
    • Paladmete gardnerae
    • Paladmete laevis
  • Panopea
    • Panopea subplicata
  • Parafusus
  • Paralbula
    • Paralbula casei
  • Paranomia
    • Paranomia scabra
  • Parasaurauia – type locality for genus
    • Parasaurauia allonensis – type locality for species
  • Parmicorbula
    • Parmicorbula percompressa
    • Parmicorbula suffalciata
    • Parmicorbula terramaria
  • Periplomya
  • Perrisonota
    • Perrisonota protexta
  • Phacoides
    • Phacoides mattiformis
  • Pholadomya
  • Pinna
  • Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Placenticeras
    Placenticeras
  • Platecarpus
  • Pleuriocardia
    • Pleuriocardia eufalensis
  • Polinices
    • Polinices kummeli
  • Postligata
    • Postligata wordeni
  • Praeleda
    • Praeleda compar
  • Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Prognathodon preying upon an ammonoid cephalopod
    Prognathodon
  • Promathildia
    • Promathildia parvula – or unidentified comparable form
  • Protarca
    • Protarca obliqua
  • Protocardia
    • Protocardia spillmani
  • Protofagacea – type locality for genus
    • Protofagacea allonensis – type locality for species
  • Protoplatyrhina
    • Protoplatyrhina renae
  • Pseudocorax
  • Pseudohypolophus
    • Pseudohypolophus ellipsis – type locality for species
  • Pseudolimea
    • Pseudolimea reticulata
  • Pseudomalaxis
    • Pseudomalaxis stantoni
  • Pseudoptera
    • Pseudoptera securiformis
  • Pteria
    • Pteria rhombica
  • Pteridophyte
    • Pteridophyte Type 1 – informal
    • Pteridophyte Type 2 – informal
  • Pterocerella
    • Pterocerella tippana
  • Pterotrigonia
  • Ptychodus
  • Ptychosyca
    • Ptychosyca inornata
  • Ptychotrygon
    • Ptychotrygon chattahoocheensis – type locality for species
    • Ptychotrygon eutawensis – type locality for species
    • Ptychotrygon triangularis – or unidentified comparable form
    • Ptychotrygon vermiculata
  • Pugnellus
    • Pugnellus goldmani
  • Pulvinites
    • Pulvinites argenteus
  • Assemblage of fossilized shells of the Cretaceous-Pleistocene oyster Pycnodonte
    Pycnodonte
  • Pyrifusus
  • Pyropsis

Q

  • Quadriplatanus – type locality for genus
    • Quadriplatanus georgianus – type locality for species

R

  • Radiopecten
    • Radiopecten mississippiensis
  • Regnellidium
    • Regnellidium upatoiensis – type locality for species
  • Remera
    • Remera flexicostata
    • Remera juncea
  • Restoration of the Late Cretaceous-Paleocene ray Rhombodus
    Rhombodus
    • Rhombodus laevis
  • Ringicula
  • Rissoa

S

T

U

  • Uddenia
  • Unicardium
    • Unicardium concentricum
  • Urceolabrum

V

  • Veniella
    • Veniella conradi
    • Veniella mullinensis
  • Vetericardiella
    • Vetericardiella crenalirata
  • Volutomorpha
  • Volvulella

X

Z

  • Zikkuratia
    • Zikkuratia tabanneensis

References

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