The following are lists of prehistoric animals:

By type

Land and avian animals

List of prehistoric amphibian genera This list of prehistoric amphibians is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be amphibians, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted gen ...

*List of prehistoric insects *

List of prehistoric mammals This is an incomplete list of prehistoric mammals. It does not include extant mammals or recently extinct mammals. For extinct primate species, see: list of fossil primates.Mikko's Phylogeny Archiv Mammaliaformes ' *Genus †'' Adelobasileus ...

List of fossil bird genera Birds evolved from certain feathered theropod dinosaurs, and there is no real dividing line between birds and non-avian dinosaurs except that some of the former survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event while the latter did not. For ...

* List of crurotarsan genera

Pterosaurs

List of pterosaur genera This list of pterosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Pterosauria, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered inval ...

* List of informally named pterosaurs

Dinosaurs

List of dinosaur genera Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria. They first appeared during the Triassic period, between 243 and 233.23 million years ago, although the exact origin and timing of the evolution of dinosaurs is the subject o ...

List of informally named dinosaurs This list of informally named dinosaurs is a listing of dinosaurs (excluding Aves; birds and their extinct relatives) that have never been given formally published scientific names. This list only includes names that were not properly published ...

* List of dinosaur species on display * Lists of dinosaur specimens * List of non-avian dinosaur species preserved with evidence of feathers *

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=By location

= * List of African dinosaurs *

List of Asian dinosaurs This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from Asia, excluding India, which was part of a separate landmass for much of the Mesozoic. This list does not include dinosaurs that live or lived after the Mesozoic era such as birds ...

List of Australian and Antarctic dinosaurs This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from Australia or Antarctica. Criteria for inclusion *The genus must appear on the List of dinosaur genera. *At least one named species of the creature must have been found in Australi ...

* List of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of New Zealand * List of European dinosaurs * List of Indian and Madagascan dinosaurs * List of North American dinosaurs **

List of Appalachian dinosaurs This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from Appalachia. During the Late Cretaceous period, the Western Interior Seaway divided the continent of North America into two landmasses; one in the west named Laramidia and Appalach ...

List of archosaurs of the Chinle Formation The Chinle Formation is an Upper Triassic continental geologic formation in the western United States which has yielded fossils of many archosaurs: a group of vertebrates that includes crocodiles, pterosaurs, dinosaurs (including birds), and other ...

List of dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Upper Jurassic sedimentary rock that is found in the western United States, which has been the most fertile source of dinosaur fossils in North America. It is composed of mudstone, sandstone, sil ...

List of South American dinosaurs This is a list of dinosaurs whose remains have been recovered from South America. Criteria for inclusion *The genus must appear on the List of dinosaur genera. *At least one named species of the creature must have been found in South America. * ...

Marine animals

Corals

* List of prehistoric hexacoral genera *

List of prehistoric octocoral genera This list of prehistoric octocorals is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the octocorallia, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera t ...

Echinoderms

List of prehistoric echinoderm genera This list of prehistoric echinoderms is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the Echinoderms that have been preserved as fossils. This list excludes purely vernacular terms. It includes all co ...

List of prehistoric echinoid genera This list of prehistoric echinoids is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be echinoids, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted gen ...

* List of crinoid genera * List of edrioasteroid genera * List of prehistoric starfish genera * List of prehistoric stylophoran genera

Fish

Lists of prehistoric fish Prehistoric fish are early fish that are known only from fossil records. They are the earliest known vertebrates, and include the first and extinct fish that lived through the Cambrian to the Quaternary. The study of prehistoric fish is called '' ...

List of prehistoric bony fish genera This list of prehistoric bony fish is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be bony fish (class Osteichthyes), excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes al ...

** List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera ** List of prehistoric jawless fish genera * List of acanthodian genera * List of conodont genera * List of placoderm genera

Other marine animals

* List of chitinozoan genera * List of eurypterid genera * List of mosasaur genera * List of prehistoric annelid genera * List of prehistoric barnacles * List of prehistoric brittle stars * List of prehistoric bryozoan genera * List of prehistoric chitons * List of prehistoric foraminifera genera * List of ichthyosaur genera * List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record *

List of plesiosaur genera This list of plesiosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Plesiosauria, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered in ...

List of prehistoric malacostracans This list of prehistoric malacostracans illustrates the genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be malacostracans, a class of crustacean arthropod, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted ...

* List of prehistoric medusozoan genera *

List of prehistoric nautiloid genera This list of nautiloids is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the subclass Nautiloidea, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered i ...

* List of prehistoric ostracod genera * List of prehistoric sea cucumbers *

List of prehistoric sponge genera This list of prehistoric sponges is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the phylum Porifera, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera ...

* List of trilobite genera

By location

* List of extinct animals of Romania * List of fossil species in the La Brea Tar Pits, California, United States * List of fossil species in the London Clay, England * List of White Sea biota species by phylum, Russia * Paleobiota of the Hell Creek Formation, northern United States *

Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation The Morrison Formation is a distinctive sequence of Late Jurassic sedimentary rock that is found in the western United States, which has a wide assortment of taxa represented in its fossil record, including dinosaur fossils in North America. It is ...

, western United States

By period or other grouping

Largest prehistoric animals The largest prehistoric animals include both vertebrate and invertebrate species. Many of them are described below, along with their typical range of size (for the general dates of extinction, see the link to each). Many species mentioned might ...

List of Ediacaran genera This is a list of all described Ediacaran genera, including the Ediacaran biota. It contains 227 genera. References {{reflist, 30em * Ediacaran The Ediacaran Period ( ) is a geological period that spans 96 million years from the end ...

List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species Late Quaternary prehistoric birds are avian taxa that became extinct during the Late Quaternary – the Holocene or Late Pleistocene – and before recorded history, or more precisely, before they could be studied alive by ornithol ...

* List of quaternary mammalian fauna of China *

List of vertebrate fauna of the Maastrichtian stage This is an incomplete list that briefly describes vertebrates that were extant during the Maastrichtian, a stage of the Late Cretaceous Period which extended from 72.1 to 66 million years before present. This was the last time period in whic ...