This list of the Mesozoic life of South Dakota contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of South Dakota and are between 252.17 and 66 million years of age.
A[edit]
- Acipenser – or unidentified comparable form
- †Actinocamax
- †Actinosepia
- †Adocus
- †Agerostrea
- †Aletridelphys
- †Allosaurus
Restorative model of the Late Cretaceous mammal Alphadon - †Amesoneuron
- †Amesoneuron FU37 – informal
- †Anatotitan
- †Anisomyon
- †Anomia
- †Antillocaprina
- †Anzu – type locality for genus
- †Anzu wyliei – type locality for species
- †Apatosaurus
- †Araucarioxylon
- †Araucarioxylon hoppertonae – type locality for species
Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous sea turtle Archelon - †Archelon ischryos
- †Archelon ischyros – type locality for species
- †Artocarpus – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- Aspideretes
- †Asplenium
- †Axestemys – or unidentified comparable form
B[edit]
Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Baculites - †Bananogmius
- †Baptornis
- †Baptornis varneri – type locality for species
Restoration of the Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur Barosaurus rearing to defend itself against a pair of the theropod Allosaurus - †Barosaurus lentus – type locality for species
- †Basilemys
- †Belemnitella
- Beryx – or unidentified related form
- †Binneyites
- †Bisonia
- †Bolodon
- †Bolodon hydei – type locality for species
- †Borealosuchus
- †Borissiakoceras – tentative report
- Brachidontes
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous Alligator relative Brachychampsa - †Brodavis
- †Brodavis baileyi – type locality for species
- †Bubodens – type locality for genus
- †Bubodens magnus – type locality for species
C[edit]
- †Caenagnathus
- †Calycoceras
- †Calycoceras boreale – type locality for species
- †Calycoceras dromense – or unidentified comparable form
Life restoration of a herd of the Late Jurassic sauropod dinosaur Camarasaurus - Campeloma
- †Camptonectes
- †Carabites
- †Carabites russelli – type locality for species
- †Cataceramus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Caturus
- †Caturus dartoni – type locality for species
- †Celastrophyllum
- †Celastrophyllum pulchrum – type locality for species
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous-Eocene choristoderan reptile Champsosaurus - †Cimexomys
- †Cimolodon
- †Cimolomys
- †Cissites
- †Claibornites
- †Claosaurus
- †Claosaurus affinis – type locality for species
- †Clavipholas
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaurid Clidastes - †Clisocolus
- †Cocculus
- †Collignoniceras
- †Collignoniceras collisniger – type locality for species
- †Collignoniceras jorgenseni – type locality for species
- †Collignoniceras percarinatum
- †Collignoniceras praecox
- †Collignoniceras vermilionense
- †Collignoniceras woolgari
- †Collignoniceras woollgari
- †Compsemys
- Corbula
- †Corbulamella
- †Crassatellina
- †Crenella
- †Cretodus
Fossil of the Early Cretaceous-Eocene shark Cretolamna - †Cteniogenys
- Cucullaea
- †Cupressinocladus
- †Curculionites
- †Curculionites hylobioides – type locality for species
- †Curculionites northropi – type locality for species
- †Curculionites vulpinus – type locality for species
- †Cuspidaria
Fossil of the Jurassic-Cretaceous cycad relative Cycadeoidea - †Cycadeoidea aspera – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea cicatricula – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea colei – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea colossalis – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea dacotensis
- †Cycadeoidea excelsa – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea formosa – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea furcata – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea ingens – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea insolita – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea jenneyana
- †Cycadeoidea Jenneyana
- †Cycadeoidea marshiana – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea mcbridei – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea McBridei – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea minnekahtensis – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea nana – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea occidentalis – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea paynei – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea pulcherrima – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea stillwelli – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea turrita – type locality for species
- †Cycadeoidea Wellsii – type locality for species
- †Cyclurus
- †Cymbophora
- Cyrtodaria
D[edit]
- †Dakotadon
Restoration of the Late Cretaceous dromaeosaurid ("raptor") Dakotaraptor preying upon an ostrich dinosaur - †Dakotaraptor steini – type locality for species
- †Dakoticancer
- †Delphodon
- †Delphodon comptus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Desmatochelys
- †Didelphodon
- †Didelphodon vorax – or unidentified comparable form
- †Diplodocus
- †Discoscaphites
- †Discoscaphites conradi
- †Discoscaphites gulosus
- †Discoscaphites rossi – type locality for species
- †Dolichorhynchops
- †Dosiniopsis
- †Drepanochilus
- †Dryophyllum
- †Dunveganoceras
E[edit]
- †Edmontonia
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus annectens - †Elasmosaurus
- †Elasmosaurus intermedius – type locality for species
- †Elatides
- †Ellipsoscapha
- †Embaphias – type locality for genus
- †Embaphias circulosus – type locality for species
- †Enchodus
- †Erlingdorfia
- †Ethmocardium
- †Eubostrychoceras
- †Eucalycoceras
- †Eutrephoceras
F[edit]
G[edit]
- †Galagadon – type locality for genus[1]
- †Galagadon nordquistae – type locality for species[1]
- †Geosternbergia
- †Geosternbergia maiseyi – type locality for species
- Gleichenia
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Globidens - †Globidens alabamensis
- †Globidens dakotensis – type locality for species
- †Globidens schurmanni – type locality for species
- †Glossozamites
- †Glossozamites Fontaineanus – type locality for species
- †Glyptops
- Glyptostrobus
- †Goniomya
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous tyrannosaur Gorgosaurus - †Grammatodon
- †Granocardium
- †Graphidula
- †Grewiopsis
- †Gypsonictops
- †Gyrostrea
H[edit]
- †Hainosaurus
- †Hainosaurus neumilleri – type locality for species
- †Hamites
- †Helopanoplia
- Hemiaster
- †Hercorhynchus
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous toothed bird Hesperornis - †Hesperornis regalis – or unidentified comparable form
- Hiatella – tentative report
- †Hindsiella
- †Hoplitosaurus
- †Hoplitosaurus marshi – type locality for species
- †Hoploparia
- †Hoploscaphites
- †Hoploscaphites comprimus
- †Hoploscaphites melloi – type locality for species
- †Hoploscaphites nicolletii
Fossilized skeleton of the Early Jurassic bony fish Hulettia - †Hulettia americana – type locality for species
- †Hypoxytoma
- †Hypsilophodon
- †Hypsilophodon wielandi – type locality for species
I[edit]
- †Ichthyodectes
- †Infernolestes – type locality for genus
- †Infernolestes rougieri – type locality for species
Fossilized shell of the Early Jurassic-Late Cretaceous marine bivalve Inoceramus with a human indicating its size - †Inoceramus apicalis
- †Inoceramus ginterensis
- †Inoceramus tenuis – or unidentified related form
- †Inoceramus tenuistriatus – tentative report
- †Ischyodus
- Isurus
J[edit]
- †Jeletskytes
Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Jeletzkytes - †Jeletzkytes dorfi
- †Jeletzkytes nebrascensis
- †Jeletzkytes spedeni – type locality for species
- Juliacorbula
- Jupiteria
L[edit]
- †Lakotalestes – type locality for genus
- †Lakotalestes luoi – type locality for species
- Lamna
- †Laurophyllum
- †Leepierceia
Fossilized skull of the Late Cretaceous alligator relative Leidyosuchus - †Lemnaceae
- †Lepidotes – tentative report
- Lepisosteus
- †Leptalestes
- †Leptosolen
- Limopsis
- †Lioplacodes
- †Lucina – tentative report
M[edit]
- Malletia
- †Marmarthia
- †Martinectes
- †Melvius
- †Meniscoessus
- †Mesodma
- †Modiolus
- †Modiolus attenuatus – or unidentified related form
- †Modiolus galpinianus
- †Modiolus meeki
Life restoration of two of the Late Cretaceous Mosasaurus - †Mosasaurus missouriensis – type locality for species
- †Myledaphus
N[edit]
A living Nelumbo lotus - †Nelumbo FU62 – informal
- †Neocardioceras
- †Neocardioceras transiens – type locality for species
- †Nonactaeonina
- †Nortedelphys
- Nucula
- Nuculana
- †Nymphalucina
O[edit]
- †Opertochasma
- †Ophiomorpha
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous ostrich dinosaur Ornithomimus - †Osmakasaurus
- †Osmakasaurus depressus – type locality for species
- Ostrea
- †Otoscaphites
- †Oxytoma
P[edit]
Fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus - †Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis – type locality for species
- †Pachyrhizodus
- †Pahasapasaurus – type locality for genus
- †Pahasapasaurus haasi – type locality for species
- †Paleoaster
- †Palmoxylon
- Panopea
- †Paronychodon
- †Passumys – type locality for genus
- †Passumys angelli – type locality for species
- †Pediomys
- Periploma
- †Phelopteria
- Pholadomya
- †Pistia – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Placenticeras
- †Platanites
- Platanus
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Platecarpus - †Platecarpus somenensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Platecarpus tympaniticus
- †Plesiobaena
- †Plioplatecarpus
- †Plioplatecarpus primaevus – type locality for species
- †Podozamites
- †Prionocyclus
Fossilized skull of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Prognathodon - †Prognathodon overtoni – type locality for species
- †Proplacenticeras
- †Protacanthoceras
- †Protalphadon
- †Protalphadon lulli – tentative report
- †Protocardia
- †Protosphyraena
- †Protostega
- †Protostega marshii – type locality for species
- †Pseudoptera
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous pterosaur Pteranodon - †Ptychodus
Q[edit]
R[edit]
- †Rhamnus
- †Rhombopsis
Micrograph with magnified inset of a fossilized tooth of the Late Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Richardoestesia
S[edit]
- Sassafras
- †Scaphites
- †Semitriton
- †Sequoia
- †Sequoia HC70 – informal
- †Serrifusus
- Solemya
- †Sourimis
- Spaniorinus
- Sphaerium
- †Sphenobaiera
- †Sphenodiscus
- †Sphenodiscus beecheri – tentative report
- †Sphenodiscus lobatus
- †Sphenodiscus pleurisepta
- †Spyridoceramus
- Squalicorax
- Squalus
- †Stramentum
Animated life restoration of the Late Cretaceous plesiosaur Styxosaurus - †Styxosaurus browni
- †Styxosaurus snowii – type locality for species
- †Syncyclonema
T[edit]
- †Tancredia
- †Tarrantoceras
- †Tarrantoceras flexicostatum – or unidentified comparable form
- †Tatankaceratops – type locality for genus
- †Tatankaceratops sacrisonorum – type locality for species
- †Taxodiaceaepollenites
- Taxodium
- †Tellinimera
- †Tenuipteria
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous herbivorous dinosaur Thescelosaurus - †Thespesius – type locality for genus
- †Thespesius occidentalis – type locality for species
- †Torosaurus
- †Toxochelys
- †Trachodon
- †Trachybaculites
- †Tragodesmoceras
- †Triceratops
- †Trochodendroides
- †Tylosaurus
Fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous tyrannosaur Tyrannosaurus
V[edit]
- †Vanikoropsis
- †Viburnites
Shell of a Viviparus freshwater snail
W[edit]
Y[edit]
Z[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Terry A. Gates; Eric Gorscak; Peter J. Makovicky (2019). "New sharks and other chondrichthyans from the latest Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of North America". Journal of Paleontology. 93 (3): 512–530. doi:10.1017/jpa.2018.92.
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
