Wikipedia:WikiProject Palaeontology/Lists
Lists of taxa
[edit]By chronology
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- List of Ediacaran genera
- List of small shelly fossil taxa
- List of arthropods of the Cambrian Period
- List of Devonian tetrapods
- List of Early Devonian land plants
- List of Carboniferous tetrapods
- List of Permian tetrapods
- List of Ice Age species preserved as permafrost mummies
- List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species
- Recent extinctions by landmass
- List of African animals extinct in the Holocene
- List of Asian animals extinct in the Holocene
- List of European species extinct in the Holocene
- List of extinct bird species since 1500
- List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene
- List of Australia-New Guinea species extinct in the Holocene
- List of South American animals extinct in the Holocene
- Extinctions on outlying islands not part of any landmass
- List of Antillian and Bermudan animals extinct in the Holocene
- List of Hawaiian animals extinct in the Holocene
- List of Macaronesian animals extinct in the Holocene
- List of Madagascar and Indian Ocean Island animals extinct in the Holocene
- List of New Zealand species extinct in the Holocene
- List of Oceanian species extinct in the Holocene
- List of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha animals extinct in the Holocene
By clade
[edit]Invertebrates
[edit]- Mollusks and their close relatives
- List of ammonite genera
- List of belemnite genera
- List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record
- List of mollusc orders (includes extant taxa)
- List of prehistoric barnacles
- List of prehistoric chitons
- List of prehistoric nautiloid genera
- Arthropods and their close relatives
- List of arthropods of the Cambrian Period
- List of eurypterid genera
- List of prehistoric malacostracans
- List of prehistoric ostracod genera
- List of trilobite genera
- List of xiphosuran genera
- Non-chordate deuterostomes (echinoderms, hemichordates, etc.)
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- List of crinoid genera
- List of edrioasteroid genera
- List of graptolite genera
- List of prehistoric brittle stars
- List of prehistoric echinoderm genera
- List of prehistoric sea cucumbers
- List of prehistoric starfish genera
- List of prehistoric stylophoran genera
- All other invertebrate animals
- List of bilaterian orders (includes vertebrates and extant taxa)
- List of brachiopod genera
- List of prehistoric annelid genera
- List of prehistoric bryozoan genera
- List of prehistoric hexacoral genera
- List of prehistoric medusozoan genera
- List of prehistoric octocoral genera
- List of prehistoric sponge genera
Vertebrates
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Several examplary fossil fish (clockwise from top left): Megalodon, Cephalaspis, Pikaia, Bothriolepis, Eusthenopteron, and Xiphactinus
Several famous fossil reptiles (clockwise from top left): Pteranodon, Tyrannosaurus, Deinosuchus, Ichthyosaurus, and Megalania
Several famous prehistoric mammals and mammal-relatives (clockwise from the top left): Lystrosaurus, Dimetrodon, Basilosaurus, Homotherium, Australopithecus, and Repenomamus
- List of bilaterian orders (includes invertebrates and extant taxa)
- List of chordate orders (includes extant taxa)
- Fishes, amphibians, and other non-amniote vertebrates
- List of acanthodian genera
- List of conodont genera
- List of placoderm genera
- List of prehistoric amphibian genera
- List of prehistoric bony fish genera
- List of sarcopterygian genera (includes extant genera)
- List of prehistoric jawless fish genera
- List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish genera
- List of thelodont genera
- Reptiles (i.e. squamates, archosaurs, and other sauropsids)
- List of crurotarsan genera (includes extant genera)
- List of dinosaur genera
- Dinosaur classification
- List of dinosaur ichnogenera
- List of informally named dinosaurs
- List of non-avian dinosaur species preserved with evidence of feathers
- List of sauropod species
- Outline of dinosaurs
- For lists of dinosaurs by region or continent, see below
- List of fossil bird genera
- List of extinct bird species since 1500
- List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species
- List of Mesozoic birds
- List of paleognath species (includes extant genera and species)
- List of ichthyosauromorph genera
- List of informally named Mesozoic reptiles
- List of mosasaur genera
- List of plesiosaur genera
- List of pterosaur genera
- Mammals and other synapsids
Non-animal eukaryotes
[edit]- List of chitinozoan genera
- List of fossil stromatolite taxa
- List of plant orders (includes extant taxa)
- List of prehistoric foraminifera genera
By provenance
[edit]By geological unit
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- List of Guanshan Biota species
- List of species in the Port Kennedy Bone Cave
- List of White Sea biota species by phylum
- List of Xiaoshiba Biota species
- Messel Formation
- Paleobiota of Burmese amber
- Paleobiota of Monte Bolca
- Paleobiota of the Burgess Shale
- Paleobiota of the Cañadón Asfalto Formation
- Paleobiota of the Chinle Formation
- Paleobiota of the Djadochta Formation
- Paleobiota of the Green River Formation
- Paleobiota of the Hell Creek Formation
- Paleobiota of the Klondike Mountain Formation
- Paleobiota of the Kristianstad Basin
- Paleobiota of the La Brea Tar Pits
- Paleobiota of the Latah Formation
- Paleobiota of the London Clay
- Paleobiota of the Maotianshan Shales
- Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation
- Paleobiota of the Posidonia Shale
- Paleobiota of the Yixian Formation
- Paris biota
- Pliocene flora of Frankfurt am Main
- Riversleigh fauna
- White River Fauna
By country or region
[edit]- Lists of taxa by continent or region
- List of African dinosaurs
- List of Appalachian dinosaurs
- List of Asian dinosaurs
- List of Australian and Antarctic dinosaurs
- List of European dinosaurs
- List of Indian and Madagascan dinosaurs
- List of North American dinosaurs
- List of South American dinosaurs
- Lists of prehistoric life by country
- List of dinosaur finds in the United Kingdom
- List of dinosaurs and other Mesozoic reptiles of New Zealand
- List of Indian and Madagascan dinosaurs
- List of prehistoric birds of Japan
- List of prehistoric mammals of Japan
- List of primates of Colombia (includes extant species)
- Lists of prehistoric life in each U.S. state
- List of the prehistoric life of Alabama
- List of the prehistoric life of Alaska
- List of the prehistoric life of Arizona
- List of the prehistoric life of Arkansas
- List of the prehistoric life of California
- List of the prehistoric life of Colorado
- List of the prehistoric life of Connecticut
- List of the prehistoric life of Delaware
- List of the prehistoric life of Florida
- List of the prehistoric life of Georgia
- List of the prehistoric life of Hawaii
- List of the prehistoric life of Idaho
- List of the prehistoric life of Illinois
- List of the prehistoric life of Indiana
- List of the prehistoric life of Iowa
- List of the prehistoric life of Kansas
- List of the prehistoric life of Kentucky
- List of the prehistoric life of Louisiana
- List of the prehistoric life of Maine
- List of the prehistoric life of Maryland
- List of the prehistoric life of Massachusetts
- List of the prehistoric life of Michigan
- List of the prehistoric life of Minnesota
- List of the prehistoric life of Mississippi
- List of the prehistoric life of Missouri
- List of the prehistoric life of Montana
- List of the prehistoric life of Nebraska
- List of the prehistoric life of Nevada
- List of the prehistoric life of New Hampshire
- List of the prehistoric life of New Jersey
- List of the prehistoric life of New Mexico
- List of the prehistoric life of New York
- List of the prehistoric life of North Carolina
- List of the prehistoric life of North Dakota
- List of the prehistoric life of Ohio
- List of the prehistoric life of Oklahoma
- List of the prehistoric life of Oregon
- List of the prehistoric life of Pennsylvania
- List of the prehistoric life of Rhode Island
- List of the prehistoric life of South Carolina
- List of the prehistoric life of South Dakota
- List of the prehistoric life of Tennessee
- List of the prehistoric life of Texas
- List of the prehistoric life of Utah
- List of the prehistoric life of Vermont
- List of the prehistoric life of Virginia
- List of the prehistoric life of Washington
- List of the prehistoric life of West Virginia
- List of the prehistoric life of Wisconsin
- List of the prehistoric life of Wyoming
By utility or designation
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Lists of paleontology-related locations
[edit]- Lagerstätte
- List of fossil sites
- List of possible impact structures on Earth
- List of Neanderthal sites
- List of tar pits
Lists of strata
[edit]By type of fossils present
[edit]- List of mosasaur-bearing stratigraphic units
- List of non-Dinosauria fossil trackway articles
- List of phytosaur-bearing stratigraphic units
- List of plesiosaur-bearing stratigraphic units
- List of pterosaur-bearing stratigraphic units
- List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur body fossils
- List of stratigraphic units with dinosaur trace fossils
- List of thalattosuchian-bearing stratigraphic units
By location
[edit]- Lists of fossiliferous strata by subcontinent or region
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Antarctica
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Central America
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in the Caribbean
- Lists of fossiliferous strata by country
Albania
Angola
Antigua and Barbuda
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Bulgaria
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Colombia
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Democratic Republic of Congo
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Fiji
France
Gabon
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Latvia
Lesotho
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Mali
Malta
Mauritania
Mexico
Moldova
Mozambique
Namibia
Netherlands
Nicaragua
Niger
Norway
Palau
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
San Marino
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Slovenia
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sudan
Sweden
Switzerland
Tanzania
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
Ukraine
Uruguay
Zambia
Zimbabwe
- Lists of fossiliferous strata in non-sovereign regions or disputed territories
- Lists of fossiliferous strata in each U.S. state
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington, D.C.
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming
- Lists of fossiliferous strata in each Canadian province and terriroty
- Lists of fossiliferous strata in parts of the United Kingdom
Lists of specific fossil specimens
[edit]- List of fossils with consumulites
- List of gomphothere fossils in South America
- List of human evolution fossils
- List of mammoth specimens
- List of museums and colleges with mastodon fossils on display
- List of non-dinosaur fossil specimens with nicknames
- List of paleontological chimeras
Type specimens
[edit]- List of ichthyosauromorph type specimens
- List of mosasaur type specimens
- List of other ornithischian type specimens
- List of plesiosaur type specimens
- List of pterosaur type specimens
- List of sauropodomorph type specimens
- List of marginocephalian type specimens
- List of ornithopod type specimens
- List of thyreophoran type specimens
- List of non-avian theropod type specimens
Miscellaneous dinosaur specimens
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- List of dinosaur species on display
- List of dinosaur specimens with nicknames
- List of dinosaur specimens with preserved soft tissue
- List of dinosaur specimens sold at auction
- List of dinosaur specimens with documented taphonomic histories
- List of lost dinosaur specimens
- List of pathological dinosaur specimens
- Specimens of Archaeopteryx
- Specimens of Tyrannosaurus
- For lists of dinosaur type specimens, see the section above
Timelines
[edit]Timelines of ecological and evolutionary events
[edit]- Timeline of extinctions in the Holocene
- Timeline of fish evolution
- Timeline of human evolution
- Timeline of the evolutionary history of life
- Land mammal age systems
- Asian land mammal age
- European land mammal age
- North American land mammal age
- South American land mammal age
Timelines of research
[edit]By type of fossil
[edit]- Non-avian dinosaurs
- Timeline of ankylosaur research
- Timeline of ceratopsian research
- Timeline of ceratosaur research
- Timeline of coelophysoid research
- Timeline of dromaeosaurid research
- Timeline of hadrosaur research
- Timeline of ornithomimosaur research
- Timeline of oviraptorosaur research
- Timeline of pachycephalosaur research
- Timeline of stegosaur research
- Timeline of therizinosaur research
- Timeline of troodontid research
- Timeline of tyrannosaur research
- All other types of fossils
- Timeline of egg fossil research
- Timeline of eurypterid research
- Timeline of ichthyosaur research
- Timeline of mosasaur research
- Timeline of plesiosaur research
- Timeline of pterosaur research
- 19th century in ichnology
- 20th century in ichnology
By geologic period of focus
[edit]- Timeline of Cambrian research
- Timeline of Ordovician research
- Timeline of Silurian research
- Timeline of Devonian research
- Timeline of Carboniferous research
- Timeline of Permian research
- Timeline of Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event research
For individual countries or regions
[edit]Other lists
[edit]Concepts
[edit]- Glossary of dinosaur anatomy
- List of ancient oceans
- List of commonly used taxonomic affixes
- List of examples of convergent evolution
- List of extinction events
- List of Latin place names used as specific names (includes non-fossil species)
- List of pathological conditions reported in Mesozoic dinosaurs
- List of paleotempestology records
- List of transitional fossils