List of the prehistoric life of Alaska

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.

Precambrian[edit]

The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Alaska.

Paleozoic[edit]

Selected Paleozoic taxa of Alaska[edit]

Mesozoic[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.

Cenozoic[edit]

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
• 

  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
• 

  Clinocardium

• Colus
• Corbicula
• Corbula
• †Cornwallius
• †Corylus
• Crenella
• Crepidula
• Cryptonatica
• Cyclocardia
• Cylichna
• Cyperus
• Delphinapterus – tentative report
• Dentalium
• 

  †Desmatophoca – tentative report

• Diacheila
• Dicrostonyx
• Dioon
• Dyschirius
• Echinarachnius
• Echinophoria
• Elphidium
• Enhydra
• Enicmus
• †Epipremnum
• 

  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
• 

  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

References[edit]