Lists of prehistoric animals explained

The following are lists of prehistoric animals:

By type

Land and avian animals

• List of prehistoric amphibian genera
• List of prehistoric mammals
• List of fossil bird genera
• List of crurotarsan genera

Pterosaurs

• List of pterosaur genera
• List of informally named pterosaurs

Dinosaurs

• List of dinosaur genera
• List of informally named dinosaurs
• List of dinosaur species on display
• Lists of dinosaur specimens
• List of non-avian dinosaur species preserved with evidence of feathers
• List of fictional dinosaurs

By location

• List of African dinosaurs
• List of Asian dinosaurs
• List of Australian and Antarctic dinosaurs
• 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
  • List of archosaurs of the Chinle Formation
  • List of dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation
• List of South American dinosaurs

Marine animals

Corals

• List of prehistoric hexacoral genera
• List of prehistoric octocoral genera

Echinoderms

• List of prehistoric echinoderm genera
• List of prehistoric echinoid genera
• List of crinoid genera
• List of edrioasteroid genera
• List of prehistoric starfish genera
• List of prehistoric stylophoran genera

Fish

• Lists of prehistoric fish
  • List of prehistoric bony fish genera
  • 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
• List of prehistoric malacostracans
• List of prehistoric medusozoan genera
• List of prehistoric nautiloid genera
• List of prehistoric ostracod genera
• List of prehistoric sea cucumbers
• List of prehistoric sponge 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, western United States

By period or other grouping

• Largest prehistoric animals
• List of Ediacaran genera
• List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species
• List of vertebrate fauna of the Maastrichtian stage

See also

• Lists of extinct animals
• List of transitional fossils
• Palaeontology
• Prehistory