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.

Contents

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• X
• Y
• References

A

• 

  Acanthocardia
  • † Acanthocardia brewerii
• Acila
  • † Acila brevis – or unidentified related form
  • † Acila castrensis
  • † Acila ermani
  • † Acila gettysburgensis
  • † Acila praedivaricata – or unidentified related form
  • † Acila shumardi
  • † Acila taliaferroi
• Acirsa
  • † Acirsa borealis
• Acmaea
  • † Acmaea sybaritica
• Acrotrichis – tentative report
• † Ademete
• Agonum
• † Ainus
• Alaocybites
  • † Alaocybites egorovi – tentative report

• 

  Alces
• Alnus
  • † Alnus carpinoides
• Alopex
  • † Alopex lagopus
• Alvania
  • † Alvania aurivillii
• Amara
• Amauropsis
  • † Amauropsis fetteri – type locality for species
• Anabathron
  • † Anabathron muriel
• Ancistrolepis
  • † Ancistrolepis beringianus
  • † Ancistrolepis eucosmius
• † Anechinocardium
  • † Anechinocardium lorenzanum – or unidentified related form
• Angulus
  • † Angulus lutea
• † Anomalisipho – tentative report
• Anomia – tentative report
• † Aperiploma
  • † Aperiploma bainbridgensis
• Aphaenogaster
• Arca
• Arctica
  • † Arctica carteriana
  • † Arctica ovata
• † Arcticlam – type locality for genus
  • † Arcticlam nanseni – type locality for species
• † Arctodus
  • † Arctodus simus
• Argobuccinum
  • † Argobuccinum oregonensis

• 

  † Arktocara – type locality for genus
  • † Arktocara yakataga – type locality for species
• Arrhenopeplus
  • † Arrhenopeplus tesserula
• Asaphidion
  • † Asaphidion yukonense – or unidentified comparable form
• Asinus
  • † Asinus kiang – or unidentified comparable form
• Astarte
  • † Astarte arctica
  • † Astarte bennetti
  • † Astarte borealis
  • † Astarte compacta
  • † Astarte crenata – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Astarte hemicymata
  • † Astarte laurentiana – or unidentified related form
  • † Astarte martini
  • † Astarte nortonensis
  • † Astarte vernicosa
• Astrangia
  • † Astrangia boreas – type locality for species

• 

  † Aturia
  • † Aturia alaskensis – type locality for species
  • † Aturia angustata
• Axinopsida
  • † Axinopsida orbiculata – or unidentified comparable form

B

• Balanus
  • † Balanus balanoides
  • † Balanus balanus

  • 

    † Balanus crenatus
  • † Balanus evermanni
  • † Balanus nubilus – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Balanus rostratus
• Bembidion
• Beringius
  • † Beringius crebricostatus
  • † Beringius hertleini
• Betula
• Bibio
• Bison

  • 

    † Bison priscus
• Bolivina
  • † Bolivina decussata
  • † Bolivina pseudopicata – or unidentified comparable form
• † Bootherium
  • † Bootherium bombifrons
• Boreotrophon
  • † Boreotrophon beringi
  • † Boreotrophon rotundatus – or unidentified comparable form
• Brachidontes
  • † Brachidontes matchgaransis – or unidentified comparable form
• Brachypimpla – tentative report

• 

  † Branchioplax
  • † Branchioplax washingtoniana
• † Bruclarkia
  • † Bruclarkia andersoni – or unidentified comparable form
• Buccella
  • † Buccella frigida
• Buccinum
  • † Buccinum angulosum
  • † Buccinum glaciale
  • † Buccinum kurodai – tentative report
  • † Buccinum ochotense – or unidentified related form
  • † Buccinum pemphigus – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Buccinum percrassum
  • † Buccinum physematum
  • † Buccinum planeticum – or unidentified comparable form
• Bulbus
  • † Bulbus fragilis
• Byrrhus

C

• Cadulus
  • † Cadulus arcticus
• Calliostoma
• Callorhinus
  • † Callorhinus ursinus
• Calyptraea
  • † Calyptraea alaskana – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Calyptraea diegoana – or unidentified comparable form
• Camponotus
• Cancellaria
• Canis

  • 

    † Canis lupus
• Carabus
  • † Carabus nemoralis – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Carabus truncaticollis – or unidentified comparable form
• † Carex
• Caryophyllia
  • † Caryophyllia arnoldi
• Cassidulina
  • † Cassidulina californica
  • † Cassidulina islandica
  • † Cassidulina teretis
  • † Cassidulina tortuosa
• Castalia
• † Castanaea
  • † Castanaea castaneaefolia
• Castanea
  • † Castanea cataneaefolia
• Cepheus
  • † Cepheus corae – or unidentified comparable form
• Ceratoppia – tentative report

• 

  † Cervalces
• Cervus
  • † Cervus elaphus
• Ceutorhynchus – tentative report
• Chama
• Chione
  • † Chione ensifera
• Chirona
  • † Chirona alaskana – type locality for species
  • † Chirona evermanni
• Chlamys
  • † Chlamys alaskensis
  • † Chlamys albida
  • † Chlamys aquilonia
  • † Chlamys ashiyaensis – or unidentified related form
  • † Chlamys ashiynensis
  • † Chlamys coatsi
  • † Chlamys cosibensis

  • 

    † Chlamys islandica
  • † Chlamys nuwokensis
  • † Chlamys rubida
• † Chrysodomus – tentative report
• Chrysolina
• † Chrysomelites – type locality for genus
  • † Chrysomelites alaskanus – type locality for species
• Cibicides
  • † Cibicides lobatulus
• Ciliatocardium
  • † Ciliatocardium ciliatum
  • † Ciliatocardium islandicum – or unidentified related form
• Cingula
  • † Cingula martyni

• 

  Clinocardium
  • † Clinocardium californiense – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Clinocardium hannibali
  • † Clinocardium makiyamae
  • † Clinocardium meekianum
  • † Clinocardium nuttallii
  • † Clinocardium pristinum
• Colus
  • † Colus halibrectus – or unidentified related form
  • † Colus spitsbergensis
• † Conchocele
  • † Conchocele bisecta
• Corbicula
  • † Corbicula bibaiensis – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Corbicula muratai – or unidentified comparable form
• Corbula
  • † Corbula betsyae – type locality for species
• † Cornwallius
  • † Cornwallius sookensis

• 

  † Corylus
  • † Corylus macquarri
• Costacallista
  • † Costacallista conradiana
• Crassatella
  • † Crassatella mathewsoni – or unidentified related form
  • † Crassatella nipponicus – or unidentified comparable form
• Crenella
  • † Crenella kannoi – type locality for species
  • † Crenella porterensis
• Crepidula
  • † Crepidula ungana
• Cryptonatica
  • † Cryptonatica affinis
• Cyclocardia
  • † Cyclocardia belogolovensis
  • † Cyclocardia crassidens
  • † Cyclocardia crebricostata
  • † Cyclocardia ezoensis
  • † Cyclocardia nuwokensis
  • † Cyclocardia roundiformis
  • † Cyclocardia sakamotoi
  • † Cyclocardia subcrassidens
  • † Cyclocardia subnipponica – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Cyclocardia tokunagai – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Cyclocardia wajampolkensis – or unidentified comparable form
• † Cyclocardium
  • † Cyclocardium roundiformis – or unidentified comparable form
• Cylichna
• Cyperus
• Cyrtodaria
  • † Cyrtodaria katieae – type locality for species
  • † Cyrtodaria kurriana
  • † Cyrtodaria rutupiensis

D

• Dasiops – tentative report
• Delphinapterus – tentative report
• Dentalium
  • † Dentalium nunomae – or unidentified comparable form

• 

  † Desmatophoca – tentative report
• Diacheila
  • † Diacheila matthewsi
• Dicrostonyx
• Diestothyris
  • † Diestothyris frontalis
• Dioon
  • † Dioon praespinulosum – type locality for species
• Diplodonta
  • † Diplodonta aleutica
  • † Diplodonta parilis
• † Dryophyllum
  • † Dryophyllum stanleyanum
• Dyschirius

E

• 

  Echinarachnius
• Echinophoria
  • † Echinophoria apta
• † Ellipsoscapha
  • † Ellipsoscapha sohli – type locality for species
• Elphidiella
  • † Elphidiella arctica
• Elphidium
  • † Elphidium alaskense
  • † Elphidium clavatum
  • † Elphidium frigidum

• 

  Enhydra
• Enicmus
• † Epipremnum
  • † Epipremnum crassum
• Epitonium
  • † Epitonium atwoodi
  • † Epitonium greenlandicum
• Equus
  • † Equus alaskae
• Erignathus
  • † Erignathus barbatus
• Erigone

• 

  Eschrichtius
• Eumetopias
  • † Eumetopias jubata
• † Eumorphocorystes
  • † Eumorphocorystes naselensis
• Euspira
  • † Euspira pallida
• Evalea
• † Exilia – tentative report

F

• 

  † Flabellaria
  • † Flabellaria gronlandica
• Fortipecten
  • † Fortipecten hallae
• Fulgoraria

G

• Gari
  • † Gari brouwersae – type locality for species
• Georissus
• Globigerina

  • 

    † Globigerina bulloides – or unidentified related form
  • † Globigerina pachyderma
• Glycymeris
  • † Glycymeris sagittatus
  • † Glycymeris septentrionalis

H

• † Hataiella
  • † Hataiella chichibuensis – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Hataiella sagai
• Helophorus
  • † Helophorus splendidus
• Hemithiris
  • † Hemithiris psittacea
• Hiatella
  • † Hiatella arctica
• Hinnites – tentative report
• Histriophoca
  • † Histriophoca fasciata
• Homalopoma – tentative report
• † Hydrodamalis

  • 

    † Hydrodamalis gigas

I

• † Integricardium
  • † Integricardium kennae – type locality for species

• 

  Isurus

J

• † Jugina
  • † Jugina snigella
• † Juglna
  • † Juglna snigella

K

• Kalissus
  • † Kalissus nitidus
• Karreriella
  • † Karreriella baccata
• † Kolponomos – or unidentified comparable form
• Kurtiella
  • † Kurtiella tumida

L

• Lasiopodomys
  • † Lasiopodomys deceitensis
• † Lastraea
  • † Lastraea stiriaca
• Lathrobium
• Laurus
• Leistus
• Lemmus

  • 

    † Lemmus sibiricus
• Leptothorax
• Leukoma
  • † Leukoma staylei – or unidentified comparable form
• Limatula
  • † Limatula attenuata
• Liocyma
  • † Liocyma fluctuosa
• Liomesus
  • † Liomesus nux
• Littorina
  • † Littorina sitchana
• † Lora
  • † Lora skullcliffensis
• Lucinoma
  • † Lucinoma acutilineata

• 

  Lunatia
  • † Lunatia groenlandica – or unidentified related form
• Lyonsia
  • † Lyonsia mooreae

M

• 

  Macoma
  • † Macoma albaria
  • † Macoma astori
  • † Macoma balthica – or unidentified related form
  • † Macoma brota – or unidentified related form
  • † Macoma calcarea
  • † Macoma golikovi
  • † Macoma moesta
  • † Macoma optiva
  • † Macoma twinensis
• Macrocallista – tentative report
• Mactromeris
  • † Mactromeris albaria
  • † Mactromeris brevirostrata
  • † Mactromeris polynyma
• Magnolia
  • † Magnolia inglefieldi
• † Mammut
• † Mammuthus

  • 

    † Mammuthus primigenius
• Margarites
  • † Margarites peninsularis
• Marmota
• Martesia – tentative report
• Mathilda
  • † Mathilda amundseni – type locality for species
• Megayoldia
  • † Megayoldia montereyensis – or unidentified related form
• Messor
• † Metacarcinus
  • † Metacarcinus goederti
• Micridium
• Micropeplus
  • † Micropeplus hoogendorni – type locality for species
  • † Micropeplus hopkinsi – type locality for species
• Microtus
• Miodontiscus
  • † Miodontiscus prolongatus
• Mizuhopecten
  • † Mizuhopecten mollerensis
• Modiolus
  • † Modiolus harrimani
• † Molopophorus
  • † Molopophorus bogachielii – or unidentified comparable form
• Musculus
  • † Musculus niger
• † Mya
  • † Mya arenaria – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Mya elegans
  • † Mya grewingki
  • † Mya truncata

• 

  Myrica
  • † Myrica arctogale
• † Mytilon – type locality for genus
  • † Mytilon theresae – type locality for species
• Mytilus
  • † Mytilus coalingensis
  • † Mytilus edulis
  • † Mytilus gratacapi
  • † Mytilus middendorffi
  • † Mytilus pholadis

N

• Namunaria
• Natica
  • † Natica janthostoma
  • † Natica oregonensis

• 

  Nebria
• † Neilo
  • † Neilo gryci – type locality for species
• Nemocardium
  • † Nemocardium exoense
• Neoconorbina
  • † Neoconorbina tabernacularis
• Neopilumnoplax
  • † Neopilumnoplax hannibalanus
• Neptunea
  • † Neptunea elatior – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Neptunea heros
  • † Neptunea leffingwelli
  • † Neptunea lyrata
  • † Neptunea modesta – or unidentified related form
  • † Neptunea plafkeri
  • † Neptunea tabulata – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Neptunea ventricosa
• Neverita
  • † Neverita washingtonensis
• Notiophilus
  • † Notiophilus aeneus – or unidentified comparable form

• 

  Nucula
  • † Nucula micheleae – type locality for species
• Nuculana
  • † Nuculana fossa
  • † Nuculana moriyai – type locality for species
  • † Nuculana morrisi

O

• Ochotona
  • † Ochotona whartoni
• Odobenus

  • 

    † Odobenus rosmarus
• Oenopota
  • † Oenopota candida
  • † Oenopota laevigata
• Oolina
  • † Oolina borealis
• † Orbitoplax – type locality for genus
  • † Orbitoplax plafkeri – type locality for species
• Oribatella – tentative report
• † Orodaphne

• 

  † Osmunda
  • † Osmunda doroschkiana
• Ostrea
  • † Ostrea lincolnensis – or unidentified related form
  • † Ostrea tigiliana
  • † Ostrea trigiliana – or unidentified comparable form
• † Ounalashkastylus – type locality for genus
  • † Ounalashkastylus tomidai – type locality for species
• Ovibos

  • 

    † Ovibos moschatus
• Ovis
  • † Ovis dalli – tentative report
• † Oxytoma
  • † Oxytoma hargrovei – type locality for species

P

• 

  Pagophilus
  • † Pagophilus groenlandica
• Palliolum
  • † Palliolum groenlandicum
• Pandora
  • † Pandora wardiana
• Panomya
  • † Panomya ampla
  • † Panomya izumo
  • † Panomya trapezoidis
• Papyridea
  • † Papyridea harrimani
• Parapholas – tentative report
  • † Parapholas california
• † Parasyrinx
• Patrobus
  • † Patrobus septentrionis – or unidentified comparable form
• Penitella
• Periploma
  • † Periploma aleutica
  • † Periploma besshoense
  • † Periploma fragilis – or unidentified related form
• † Perse
• Phenacomys
  • † Phenacomys deeringensis
• Phoca
  • † Phoca hispida

  • 

    † Phoca vitulina
• Picea
  • † Picea glauca
  • † Picea mariana
  • † Picea sitchensis – or unidentified comparable form
• Pinus
  • † Pinus monticola

• 

  Pitar
  • † Pitar angustifrons
  • † Pitar avenalensis – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Pitar dalli – or unidentified related form
• † Placunopsis
  • † Placunopsis rothi – type locality for species
• † Planera
  • † Planera ungeri
• Planulina
  • † Planulina alaskensis
• Plicifusus
  • † Plicifusus kroyeri – or unidentified related form
• Pododesmus

  • 

    † Pododesmus macrochisma
• Polinices
  • † Polinices diabloensis
  • † Polinices lincolnensis – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Polinices pallidus
  • † Polinices ramonensis
  • † Polinices repenningi – type locality for species
• Polymorphina
  • † Polymorphina kincaidi

• 

  Populus
  • † Populus balsamoides
  • † Populus glandulifera
• Portlandia
  • † Portlandia ovata
  • † Portlandia watasei
• † Portunites
  • † Portunites alaskensis
• † Praeovibos
• † Predicrostonyx
  • † Predicrostonyx hopkinsi
• † Priscofusus
  • † Priscofusus clarki
  • † Priscofusus stewarti – or unidentified related form
• † Protocardia – tentative report
• † Protochelydra
  • † Protochelydra zangerli – or unidentified comparable form
• Protothaca
  • † Protothaca staleyi
• Pseudarchaster
• Pteris
  • † Pteris sitkensis
• Pterostichus
  • † Pterostichus corvinus – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Pterostichus vermiculosus – or unidentified comparable form
• Puncturella
  • † Puncturella longifissa
• Purpura
  • † Purpura crispata – or unidentified related form

• 

  Pusa – or unidentified related form
  • † Pusa hispida
• Pyrgo
  • † Pyrgo elongata – or unidentified comparable form
• Pyrulofusus
  • † Pyrulofusus schraderi

Q

• 

  Quercus
• Quinqueloculina
  • † Quinqueloculina agglutinata
  • † Quinqueloculina akneriana
  • † Quinqueloculina seminulum

R

• Rangifer

  • 

    † Rangifer tarandus
• Raninoides
  • † Raninoides vaderensis
• Rhabdus
  • † Rhabdus schencki – or unidentified comparable form
• Rosalina
  • † Rosalina wrightii
• † Rotalia
  • † Rotalia columbiensis

S

• 

  Saiga
• Saxidomus
  • † Saxidomus callistaeformis – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Saxidomus hanzawai
• Scaphander
  • † Scaphander lignarius – or unidentified comparable form
• † Scutella
  • † Scutella gabbi
• Sequoia
  • † Sequoia couttsiae – tentative report
  • † Sequoia langsdorfii
  • † Sequoia nordenskioldi – tentative report
• Serripes
  • † Serripes groenlandicus
  • † Serripes hamiltonensis
  • † Serripes laperousii
• † Shedocardia – tentative report
• Siliqua
  • † Siliqua alta – or unidentified comparable form
• Similipecten
  • † Similipecten greenlandicus
• Simplocaria

• 

  Siphonalia
  • † Siphonalia sakakurai – or unidentified related form
• † Skeneopsis
  • † Skeneopsis alaskana
• Solamen
  • † Solamen leana
• Solena
• Sorex
• Spermophilus
  • † Spermophilus undulatus
• Spirorbis
• Spirotropis
  • † Spirotropis perversa – or unidentified comparable form
• Spisula
  • † Spisula addicotti
  • † Spisula callistaeformis
  • † Spisula eugenense – or unidentified related form
  • † Spisula hannibali – or unidentified comparable form
• Stenus
• † Streptochetus – tentative report
• Strongylocentrotus
  • † Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis

• 

  † Symphoricarpos

T

• Tachinus
  • † Tachinus apertus – or unidentified comparable form
• Tachyrhynchus
  • † Tachyrhynchus erosus
• † Tancredia
  • † Tancredia slavichi – type locality for species
• † Taxites
  • † Taxites olriki
• Taxodium

  • 

    † Taxodium distichum
  • † Taxodium dubium
  • † Taxodium occidentale
  • † Taxodium tinajorum
• Tellina
  • † Tellina aragonia
• † Tellinimera
  • † Tellinimera kauffmani – type locality for species
• Terebratula
  • † Terebratula retusa – or unidentified related form
• Terebratulina
  • † Terebratulina retusa – or unidentified related form
• Thracia
  • † Thracia condoni
  • † Thracia septentrionalis – or unidentified related form
• Thyasira
  • † Thyasira arctica

• 

  Tonicella
  • † Tonicella marmorea
• † Trichohyalis
  • † Trichohyalis ornatissima
• Trichotropis
  • † Trichotropis bicarinata
• † Triloculine
  • † Triloculine trigonula
• † Tsuga

  • 

    † Tsuga heterophylla
• Turritella
  • † Turritella uvasana
• Turtonia
  • † Turtonia minuta
• † Tymolus
  • † Tymolus alaskensis – type locality for species
• † Tyrannoberingius
  • † Tyrannoberingius rex
• † Tyrranoberingius
  • † Tyrranoberingius rex

U

• 

  Ulmus
• Ursus
• † Uya
  • † Uya arenaria – or unidentified related form

V

• 

  † Vaccinium
• Venericardia
  • † Venericardia clarki – or unidentified related form
• Veraphis – tentative report
• † Vertipecten
• Vitavitus
  • † Vitavitus thulius – or unidentified comparable form
• Vitis
  • † Vitis olriki
• Volutopsius
  • † Volutopsius stefanssoni – or unidentified related form
• Vulpes

  • 

    † Vulpes vulpes

X

• 

  Xysticus
  • † Xysticus archaeopalpus – type locality for species

Y

• Yoldia
  • † Yoldia breweri – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Yoldia emersoni – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Yoldia gladenkovi – type locality for species
  • † Yoldia palachei – or unidentified comparable form
  • † Yoldia scissurata
  • † Yoldia sobrina
• Yoldiella
  • † Yoldiella scissurata

References

• Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database" . Retrieved December 17, 2021.