This list of the prehistoric life of Massachusetts contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Massachusetts.
Precambrian
The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Massachusetts.
Paleozoic
Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Agraulos - †Aldanella
- †Allatheca – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Allatheca degeeri – broadly construed
- †Anabarites
- †Bemella
- †Braintreella
- †Calodiscus
- †Camenella
- †Camenella baltica – tentative report
Fossil of Chancelloria - †Coleoloides
- †Condylopyge
- †Conotheca
- †Dawsonia
- †Dawsonia dawsoni – or unidentified comparable form
- †Dipharus
- †Dromopus – tentative report
- †Dromopus woodworthi – type locality for species
- †Eccentrotheca
- †Fomitchella
- †Gracilitheca
Fossil of the Cambrian mollusc Halkieria. - †Hyolithellus
- †Hyolithellus micans – or unidentified related form
- †Hyolithes
- †Hyolithes tenuistriatus – broadly construed
- †Kingaspis
- †Ladatheca – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Lapworthella
- †Leptostega
- †Linguella
- †Mellopegma – tentative report
Restorative model of Microdictyon. - †Obolella
- †Obolus
- †Obolus parvulus – tentative report
- †Onchocephalites
- †Paradoxides
- †Pelagiella
- †Plinthokonion
- †Rhombocorniculum
- †Scenella
- †Serrodiscus
- †Sokolovitheca
- †Stenotheca – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Sunnaginia
Fossil of the mysterious Cambrian animal Torellella - †Watsonella
Mesozoic
This list of the Mesozoic life of Massachusetts contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Massachusetts and are between 252.17 and 66 million years of age.
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- †Acanthichnus
- †Acanthichnus aguineus – type locality for species
- †Acanthichnus alternans – type locality for species
- †Acanthichnus cursorius
- †Acanthichnus saltatorius
- †Acanthichnus trilinearis
- †Acteonella
- †Aenigmichnus
- †Amblonyx – type locality for genus
- †Amblonyx giganteus – type locality for species
- †Amblonyx lyellianus
- †Amblypus – type locality for genus
- †Amblypus dextratus – type locality for species
- †Ammopus – type locality for genus
- †Ammopus marshi – type locality for species
- †Ampelichnus
- †Anchisauripus
- †Anchisauripus exsertus – type locality for species
- †Anchisauripus hitchcocki – type locality for species
- †Anchisauripus minusculum – type locality for species
- †Anchisauripus minusculus
- †Anchisauripus parallelus
- †Anchisauripus sillimani
- †Anchisauripus tuberosus – type locality for species
Restoration of the Early Jurassic sauropodomorph dinosaur Anchisaurus - †Anchisaurus polyzelus – type locality for species
- †Ancyropus
- †Anomoepus
- †Anomoepus crassus
- †Anomoepus cuneatus – type locality for species
- †Anomoepus curvatus – type locality for species
- †Anomoepus gracillimus – type locality for species
- †Anomoepus intermedius – type locality for species
- †Anomoepus isodactylus – type locality for species
- †Anomoepus major – type locality for species
- †Anomoepus minimus – type locality for species
- †Anomoepus scambus – type locality for species
- †Anticheiropus – type locality for genus
- †Anticheiropus hamatus – type locality for species
- †Anticheiropus pilulatus – type locality for species
- †Antipus
- †Antipus bifidus – type locality for species
- †Apatichnus – type locality for genus
- †Apatichnus circumagens – type locality for species
- †Arachnichnus
- †Arachnichnus dehiscens – type locality for species
- †Argoides
- †Argoides macrodactylus
- †Argoides minimus – type locality for species
- †Argoides redfieldianum – tentative report
- †Argoides redfieldii – type locality for species
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Illustration of a living Batrachoides toadfish - †Batrachopus – type locality for genus
- †Batrachopus bellus – type locality for species
- †Batrachopus deweyi – type locality for species
- †Batrachopus dispar – type locality for species
- †Batrachopus gracilis – type locality for species
- †Batrachopus vuigaris
- †Bifurculipes
- †Bisulcus
- †Bisulcus undulatus – type locality for species
- †Brontozoum
- †Brontozoum approximatum
- †Brontozoum divaricatum – type locality for species
- †Brontozoum giganteum – type locality for species
- †Brontozoum isodactylum
- †Brontozoum parallelum – type locality for species
- †Brontozoum sillimanium
- †Brontozoum tuberatum – type locality for species
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- †Chalthropteris
- †Clathropteris
- †Climacodichnus
- †Climacodichnus corrigatus – type locality for species
- †Cochlichnus
- †Conopsoides
- †Conopsoides curtus – type locality for species
- †Conopsoides larvalis
- †Copeza
- †Corvipes – type locality for genus
- †Corvipes lacertoideus – type locality for species
- †Cunichnoides – type locality for genus
- †Cunichnoides marsupialoideus – type locality for species
- †Cunicularius
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Fossils of the large theropod dinosaur footprint ichnogenus Eubrontes - †Eupalamopus – type locality for genus
- †Eupalamopus dananus – type locality for species
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- †Gigandipus – type locality for genus
- †Gigandipus caudatus – type locality for species
Fossil negative with skin impressions of the theropod dinosaur footprint ichnogenus Grallator - †Grallator cuneatus – type locality for species
- †Grallator cursorius – type locality for species
- †Grallator formosus – type locality for species
- †Grallator gracilis – type locality for species
- †Grallator magnificus – type locality for species
- †Grallator parallelus – type locality for species
- †Grallator sillimaniium – tentative report
- †Grallator tenuis – type locality for species
- †Grammepus
- †Grammichnus
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- †Halysichnus
- †Harpagopus
- †Harpedactylus
- †Harpedactylus crassus – type locality for species
- †Harpedactylus gracilior – type locality for species
- †Harpedactylus tenuissimus – type locality for species
- †Harpepus
- †Helcura
- †Helcura anguinea – type locality for species
- †Helcura littoralis – type locality for species
- †Helcura surgens – type locality for species
- †Henrisporites
- †Henrisporites angustus – type locality for species
- †Herpystezoum
- †Hexapodichnus
- †Holcoptera
- †Hoplichnus – type locality for genus
- †Hoplichnus equus – type locality for species
- †Hoplichnus quadrupedans – type locality for species
- †Hyphepus – type locality for genus
- †Hyphepus fieldi – type locality for species
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- †Isocampe – type locality for genus
- †Isocampe strata – type locality for species
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- †Kayentapus
- †Kayentapus minor – type locality for species
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- †Lagunculapes – type locality for genus
- †Lagunculapes latus – type locality for species
- †Lunula
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- †Mormolucoides – type locality for genus
- †Mormolucoides articulatus – type locality for species
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- †Ornithichnites – type locality for genus
- †Ornithichnites giganteus – type locality for species
- †Ornithoidichnites
- †Ornithoidichnites cuneatus – type locality for species
- †Ornithoidichnites giganteus
- †Ornithoidichnites lyellii – type locality for species
- †Ornithopus
- †Ornithopus adamsanus – type locality for species
- †Otouphepus
- †Otouphepus minor – type locality for species
Fossil from Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum of the Late Triassic-Middle Jurassic sauropodomorph dinosaur footprint ichnogenus Otozoum - †Otozoum minus – type locality for species
- †Otozoum moodii – type locality for species
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- †Palaephemera
- †Palamopus
- †Paxillitriletes
- †Pityostrobus
- †Pityostrobus kayei – type locality for species
- †Platypterna
- †Platypterna concamerata – type locality for species
- †Platypterna deanii
- †Platypterna digitigrada – type locality for species
- †Platypterna gracillima – type locality for species
- †Platypterna recta – type locality for species
- †Platypterna varica – type locality for species
- †Plectropterna
- †Plectropterna gracilis – type locality for species
- †Plectropterna lineans
- †Plectropterna minitans
- †Plesiornis – type locality for genus
- †Plesiornis pilulatus – type locality for species
Fossilized partial skeleton of the Early Jurassic theropod dinosaur Podokesaurus - †Podokesaurus holyokensis – type locality for species
- †Polemarchus – type locality for genus
- †Polemarchus gigas – type locality for species
- †Pseudoaraucaria
- †Pseudoaraucaria arnoldii – type locality for species
- †Pterichnus
- †Ptilichnus – type locality for genus
- †Ptilichnus anomalus – type locality for species
- †Ptilichnus hydrodromus – type locality for species
- †Ptilichnus pectinatus – type locality for species
- †Ptilichnus typographus – type locality for species
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- †Sagittarius
- †Saltator
- †Saltator bipedatus – type locality for species
- †Saltator caudatus – type locality for species
- †Sauropus
- †Sauropus barrattii – type locality for species
- †Selenichnus
- †Selenichnus breviusculus – type locality for species
- †Selenichnus falcatus – type locality for species
- †Sillimanius
Fossils of the Cambrian-modern worm burrow ichnogenus Skolithos - †Sphaerapus
- †Stegomus
- †Stegomus longipes – type locality for species
- †Stenonyx
- †Stenonyx lateralis – type locality for species
- †Steropezoum
- †Steropoides
- †Steropoides divaricatus – type locality for species
- †Steropoides diversus – type locality for species
- †Steropoides elegans – type locality for species
- †Steropoides infelix – type locality for species
- †Steropoides ingens – type locality for species
- †Steropoides loripes – type locality for species
- †Steropoides uncus – type locality for species
- †Stratipes – type locality for genus
- †Stratipes latus – type locality for species
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- †Tarsodactylus – type locality for genus
- †Tarsodactylus caudatus – type locality for species
- †Tarsodactylus expansus – type locality for species
- †Tarsoplectrus
- †Tarsoplectrus angustus – type locality for species
- †Toxichnus – type locality for genus
- †Toxichnus inaequalis – type locality for species
- †Triaenopus
- †Trihamus – type locality for genus
- †Trihamus elegans – type locality for species
- Trisulcus
- †Typopus – type locality for genus
- †Typopus abnormis – type locality for species
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- †Xiphopeza – type locality for genus
- †Xiphopeza triplex – type locality for species
Cenozoic
This list of the Cenozoic life of Massachusetts contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Massachusetts and are between 66 million and 10,000 years of age.
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- Aligena
- Anadara
Shell of an Anadara transversa, or transverse ark clam
- Angulus
- Anomia
- Astarte
- Astyris
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Portrait of a living Balaenoptera baleen whale - †Balaenoptera sursiplana – tentative report
- Balanus
- Boonea
- Brachidontes
- Buccinum
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- Callinectes
A living Callinectes sapidus, or Chesapeake blue crab
- †Callophoca
- Cardium
- Caryocorbula
- Cliona
- Colus
- Corymbites
- Crassostrea
- Crenella
- Crepidula
- Cumingia
- †Cuneocorbula
- Cyclocardia
Illustration of a living Cymindis ground beetle - †Cymindis extorpescens – type locality for species
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A living Donacia leaf beetle - †Donacia elongatula – type locality for species
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Interior of the shell of an Ensis leei, or Atlantic jackknife clam - Eontia
- Equus
- Eupleura
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- Gemma
Fossilized shell of a Glycymeris, or bittersweet clam - †Glycymeris wrigleyi – or unidentified related form
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- Ilyanassa
- Ischadium
Shells of Ischadium recurvum, or hooked mussels
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- Macoma
- †Mammut
Restoration of a Mammut americanum, or American mastodon
- †Mammuthus
- Mercenaria
- Mesodesma
- Modiolus
- †Monotherium
- †Mya
- Mytilus
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Preserved Neverita moon sea snail - Nucula
- †Nucula potomacensis – or unidentified related form
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A living Odobenus rosmarus, or walrus - Odostomia
- Ostrea
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- Panomya
- Panopeus
- Petricola
- †Pinguinus
Taxidermied specimen of Pinguinus impennis, or the great auk
- Placopecten
- †Prophoca – or unidentified comparable form
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- †Saxinis
- †Saxinis regularis – type locality for species
- Serpula
Life restoration of the Oligocene-Miocene shark-toothed dolphin Squalodon
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Shell of a Tellina, or tellin - Terebra
- Turbonilla
- Turritella
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- Urosalpinx
A living Urosalpinx sea snail, or oyster drill
References
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
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