This list of the Cenozoic life of North Dakota contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of North Dakota and are between 66 million and 10,000 years of age.
A[edit]
- Acer
- †Acrovena – type locality for genus
- †Acrovena laevis – type locality for species
- †Actinodonta
- †Adjidaumo[1]
- †Aesculus
- †Aesculus hickeyi – type locality for species
- †Agnotocastor[1]
- †Aletodon
Fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous-Oligocene Alligator relative Allognathosuchus - †Allognathosuchus mlynarskii – type locality for species
- †Altasciurus[1]
- †Altasciurus leonardi – type locality for species[1]
- †Alveugena
- †Amersinia
- †Amersinia FU082 informal
- †Amersinia FU82 informal
- †Amesoneuron
- †Amesoneuron FU037 informal
- Amia
- †Ampelopsis
- †Amphicaenopus
- †Ankylodon – or unidentified comparable form
- †Apternodus
- †Archaeocyon
Life restoration of the Eocene-Oligocene entelodont mammal Archaeotherium - †Arctocyon
- †Ardynomys
- †Averrhoites
- †Axestemys
- Azolla
- †Azolla montana
- †Azolla stanleyi – type locality for species
- †Azollopsis
B[edit]
- †Bathycyathus
- †Bathycyathus lloydi – type locality for species
- †Batrachosauroides
- †Batrachosauroides gotoi – type locality for species
- †Beringiaphyllum – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Bessoecetor
- Betula
- †Betula hesterna – type locality for species
- †Bisonalveus
- †Borealosuchus
- †Borealosuchus formidabilis – type locality for species
- †Boremys
- †Bothriodon
Restorative portrait of the Miocene oreodont mammal Brachycrus - †Browniea
C[edit]
- †Cabomba
- †Calamagras
- †Canariophyllum – type locality for genus
- †Canariophyllum ampla – type locality for species
- Canticocculus
- †Cantius
- †Carpites
- †Carpodaptes
- †Carpodaptes hazelae – or unidentified comparable form
- †Carpodaptes hobackensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Carpolithes
- †Carpolithes arcticus
- †Carpolithes bryangosus – type locality for species
- †Carpolithes lunatus – type locality for species
A living Carya, or hickory tree - †Cedromus[1]
- Celtis
- †Centetodon
- †Centimanomys
- †Ceratophyllum
- †Ceratophyllum FU080 informal
- Cercidiphyllum
- †Chaetoptelea
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous-Eocene choristoderan reptile Champsosaurus - †Champsosaurus gigas – type locality for species
- †Champsosaurus tenuis – type locality for species
- †Chrysotriton – type locality for genus
- †Chrysotriton tiheni – type locality for species
- Cocculus
- †Coniophis
- †Conoryctella
- †Conoryctella dragonensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Cornophyllum
- Cornus
- †Corylus
- †Corylus acutertiaria – type locality for species
- †Corylus FU079 informal
- †Corylus insignis
Life restoration of the Paleocene-Eocene pantodont mammal Coryphodon. Heinrich Harder (1920). - †Coryphodon armatus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Cotradechites – type locality for genus
- †Cotradechites lithinus – type locality for species
- †Credneria
- †Credneria daturaefolia – tentative report
- †Cupressinocladus
- Cyclocarya
- †Cylindrodon
- †Cyperacites
- †Cypressaurus
D[edit]
- †Dakotornis – type locality for genus
- †Dakotornis cooperi – type locality for species
Life restoration of the Eocene-Miocene bear dog Daphoenus - †Davidia
- †Dennstaedtia
- †Diacocherus
- †Diacodexis – tentative report
Restoration of the Oligocene-Miocene hornless rhinoceros Diceratherium. Robert Bruce Horsfall (1913). - Dicotylophyllum
- †Dicotylophyllum anomalum
- †Dicotylophyllum hamameloides – type locality for species
- †Dicotylophyllum hebronensis – type locality for species
- †Dicotylophyllum mercerensis – type locality for species
- †Dicotylophyllum oblongatum – type locality for species
- †Didelphodus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Didymictis
Life restoration of the Eocene-Miocene false saber-toothed cat Dinictis. Robert Bruce Horsfall (1913). - †Dissacus
- †Dombeya
- †Dombeya novimundi – type locality for species
- †Domnina
- †Domnina sagittariensis – type locality for species
- †Domnina thompsoni – or unidentified comparable form
- †Dorraletes
- †Douglassciurus
- †Drepanochilus – tentative report
E[edit]
Fossilized shell of the Eocene turtle Echmatemys - †Ectocion
- †Ectypodus
- †Elliptio
- †Elomeryx
- †Entomolestes
- †Equisetum
- †Equisetum FU036 informal
- †Equisetum magnum – type locality for species
- †Eucommia
- †Eumys[1]
- †Eumys brachyodus[1]
- †Eumys elegans
- †Eumys lammersi – type locality for species[1]
- †Eutypomys
- †Eutypomys hibernodus – type locality for species
- †Eutypomys parvus
F[edit]
A living Ficus, or fig tree - †Fokieniopsis
- †Fraxinus
G[edit]
- Ginkgo
Restored foliage of the Late Cretaceous-Miocene ginkgo tree Ginkgo adiantoides
- Glyptostrobus
- †Gomphaeschna
- †Gomphaeschna schrankii – type locality for species
H[edit]
- †Harmsia
- †Heliscomys[1]
- †Heliscomys borealis – type locality for species[1]
- †Heliscomys medius – or unidentified comparable form[1]
- †Heliscomys senex[1]
- †Heliscomys vetus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Helodermoides
- Hemitelia
- †Herpetotherium
- †Herpetotherium fugax – or unidentified comparable form
- †Herpetotherium valens
Life restoration of the Eocene-Oligocene dog Hesperocyon. Robert Bruce Horsfall (1913). - †Hesperopetes[1]
- †Hesperopetes blacki – or unidentified comparable form[1]
- †Homogalax
- †Homogalax aureus – type locality for species
- †Hydromystria
- †Hyopsodus
- †Hypertragulus
- †Hyracodon
I[edit]
- †Ignacius
Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Eocene-Oligocene rodent Ischyromys - †Ischyromys junctus
- †Ischyromys typus[1]
- †Ischyromys veterior – or unidentified comparable form
- †Isoetites
J[edit]
- †Joffrichthys
- †Joffrichthys triangulpterus – type locality for species
- Juglans
K[edit]
Flowers of a living Kalmia shrub - †Kirkomys[1]
L[edit]
- †Labidolemur
- †Lemnaceae
Illustration of a living Lepisosteus, or gar - †Leptacodon
- †Leptauchenia
- †Leptictis
- †Leptictis acutidens – or unidentified comparable form
- †Leptictis dakotensis
- †Leptodontomys
Life restoration of the Eocene-Oligocene even-toed ungulate Leptomeryx - †Leptomeryx evansi
- †Leptomeryx yoderi – or unidentified comparable form
- †Litocherus
- †Lophiparamys
- †Lophiparamys murinus – or unidentified comparable form
- Lygodium
M[edit]
- Marchantia
- †Megalagus
- †Megalagus brachyodon – or unidentified comparable form
Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Miocene-Pleistocene ground sloth Megalonyx - †Meliosma
- †Meliosoma
- †Menispermites
- †Menispermites parvareolatus – type locality for species
- †Merychyus
- †Merycochoerus
- †Merycoidodon
- †Mesodma
- †Mesohippus
- †Mesohippus bairdi
- †Mesohippus propinquus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Mesohippus westoni – or unidentified comparable form
Restoration of the Eocene-Miocene swamp rhinoceros Metamynodon. Charles R. Knight (1896). - †Metaparamys
- †Metaparamys dawsonae – or unidentified comparable form
- Metasequoia
- †Miacis
- †Microcosmodon
- †Microparamys – or unidentified comparable form[1]
- †Micropternodus
- †Micropternodus borealis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Microsyops
- †Mimetodon
- †Miniochoerus
- †Miniochoerus starkensis – type locality for species
- †Miohippus
- †Musophyllum
N[edit]
- †Nannodectes
- †Nanotragulus
- †Nelumbago
- †Nelumbium
A living Nelumbo lotus - †Nelumbo aureavallis – type locality for species
- †Nelumbo FU062 informal
- †Nelumbo FU085 informal
- †Nelumbo FU62 informal
- †Neoplagiaulax
- †Nephrops
- †Nephrops buntingi – type locality for species
- †Nordenskioldia
- †Notomorpha
Anatomy of a de-shelled Nototeredo shipworm - †Nyssa
- †Nyssidium
O[edit]
- †Ogmophis
- †Oligoryctes
- †Oligoryctes altitalonidus
- †Oligoryctes cameronensis – or unidentified comparable form
- †Oligoscalops
- †Oligotheriomys[1]
- †Oligotheriomys magnus[1]
- †Oligotheriomys primus – type locality for species
- †Onoclea
Fossil of the Permian-modern crustacean burrow ichnogenus Ophiomorpha - †Oreithyia
- †Osbornodon
- †Osbornodon renjiei – type locality for species
- †Osmunda
- †Oxyacodon
P[edit]
- †Palaeanodon – tentative report
- †Palaeocarpinus
Restoration of the Oligocene rabbit relative Palaeolagus - †Palaeolagus haydeni
- †Palaeolagus temnodon – or unidentified comparable form
- †Palaeophytocrene
- †Palaeopsammia
- †Palaeopsammia zitteli – type locality for species
- †Palaeoryctes
- †Palaeoryctes punctatus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Palaeosinopa
- †Palaeoxantusia – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature
- †Paleotomus
- †Paleotomus senior – or unidentified comparable form
- †Palmacites
- †Paradjidaumo[1]
- †Paradjidaumo hansonorum – or unidentified comparable form
- †Paradjidaumo trilophus[1]
- †Paramys
- †Paramys excavatus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Paranymphaea
- †Pararyctes
- †Parataxodium – or unidentified comparable form
- †Paraternstroemia – type locality for genus
- †Paraternstroemia hyphovenosa – type locality for species
- †Parectypodus
- †Peltosaurus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Penosphyllum
- †Peradectes
- †Persites – type locality for genus
- †Persites argutus – type locality for species
Life restoration of the Paleocene-Eocene ungulate Phenacodus. Charles R. Knight (1898). - †Phyllites
- †Piceoerpeton
- Pinus
- †Pinus peregrinus – type locality for species
- †Pipestoneomys
- †Planatus
- †Plastomenus
- Platanus
- Platycarya
Life restoration of the Paleocene-Eocene primate Plesiadapis - †Plesiadapis anceps
- †Plesiadapis churchilli – or unidentified comparable form
- †Plesiadapis fodinatus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Plesiadapis rex
- †Poebrotherium
- Populus
- †Prochetodon
- †Prodiacodon
- †Prodiacodon tauricinerei – or unidentified comparable form
- †Prolapsus
- †Propalaeosinopa
- †Prosciurus[1]
- †Prosciurus albiclivus – type locality for species
- †Prosciurus hogansoni – type locality for species[1]
- †Prosciurus vetustus
- †Protictis
- †Protictis microlestes – or unidentified comparable form
- †Protictis paralus – type locality for species
Life restoration of a female (left) and male of the Oligocene-Miocene even-toed ungulate Protoceras. Charles R. Knight (1896). - †Protochelydra
- †Protophyllum
- †Protophyllum semotum – type locality for species
- †Protungulatum
- †Pseudocylindrodon
- †Psidium – tentative report
- Pterocarya
- †Pterospermites
Illustration of a fossilized skull of the Paleocene multituberculate mammal Ptilodus
Q[edit]
- †Queironius – type locality for genus
- †Queironius praelapsus – type locality for species
A living Quercus, or oak tree - †Quereuxia
R[edit]
- †Reithroparamys
A living Rhineura floridana, or North American worm lizard
S[edit]
- Sagittaria
- †Salvinia
- †Salvinia aureovallis – type locality for species
- †Salvinia preauriculata
Fossilized skeleton of the Eocene monitor lizard Saniwa - †Saniwa edura – type locality for species
- †Saniwa ensidens – or unidentified comparable form
- †Sauropithecoides – type locality for genus
- †Sauropithecoides charisticus – type locality for species
- †Scapherpeton
- †Selaginella
- †Simoedosaurus
- †Simoedosaurus dakotensis – type locality for species
- †Sinclairella
- †Sparganium
- †Sparganium antiquum
- †Sparganium parvum – type locality for species
- †Sparganium stygium
- †Spathorhynchus – or unidentified comparable form
- †Stibarus
- †Stillingia
- †Stillingia casca – type locality for species
Life restoration of the Eocene-Oligocene cow-sized rhinoceros Subhyracodon. Charles R. Knight (1890s).
T[edit]
- Taxodium
Fossilized mandible of the Eocene primate Teilhardina - †Ternstroemites
- †Ternstroemites aureavallis – type locality for species
- †Tetonoides
- Thamnophis
- †Thryptacodon
- †Thuites
- †Thuja
- Tinosaurus
Life restoration of the Paleocene pantodont mammal Titanoides - †Titanoides primaevus – type locality for species
- †Toxotherium
- †Trapa
- †Trichopterodomus – type locality for genus
- †Trichopterodomus leonardi – type locality for species
- †Trigonias
- Trochocyathus
- †Trochocyathus mitratus – type locality for species
- †Trochodendroides
- †Tuberculacerta – type locality for genus
- †Tuberculacerta pearsoni – type locality for species
U[edit]
V[edit]
W[edit]
Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Paleocene Alligator relative Wannaganosuchus - †Wannaganosuchus brachymanus – type locality for species
- †Wardiaphyllum
- †Willeumys[1]
- †Woodwardia
- †Woodwardia arctica
- †Woodwardia gravida – type locality for species
X[edit]
- †Xestops – or unidentified comparable form
Y[edit]
- †Yoderimys
- †Yoderimys stewarti – or unidentified comparable form
Z[edit]
- †Zingiberopsis – type locality for genus
- †Zingiberopsis isonervosa – type locality for species
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad William W. Korth; Robert J. Emry; Clint A. Boyd; Jeff J. Person (2019). "Rodents (Mammalia) from Fitterer Ranch, Brule Formation (Oligocene), North Dakota". Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology. 103 (103): iv-45. doi:10.5479/si.1943-6688.103.
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
