List of the Mesozoic life of Alabama

This list of the Mesozoic life of Alabama contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Alabama and are between 252.17 and 66 million years of age.

A living Acteon barrel bubble sea snail

Illustration of a living Albula bonefish

Interior and exterior of a shell of an Anomia , or jingle shell

Fossilized skull and skeleton of the Late Cretaceous primitive tyrannosaur Appalachiosaurus

Fossil of the Late Cretaceous crab Avitelmessus

Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Baculites

Fossilized guard of the Late Cretaceous belemnoid cephalopod Belemnitella

Shells of modern Capulus cap sea snails

Illustration of a fossilized skull found in Alabama; the type specimen of the Late Cretaceous sea turtle Chelosphargis

Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaurid Clidastes

Fossilized shell of the Cretaceous-modern oyster Crassostrea

Restoration of the Late Cretaceous shark Cretoxyrhina , or the Ginsu shark

Shell of a Cucullaea , or false ark shell

Multiple views of a shell of a Cypraea cowrie sea snail

Shell of a Dentalium tusk shell

Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Discoscaphites

Restoration of the Early Cretaceous-Eocene bony fish Enchodus , or the "saber-toothed herring"

Restoration of the Late Cretaceous duck-billed dinosaur Eotrachodon

Interior of a fossilized shell of the Jurassic-Cretaceous foam oyster Exogyra

Fossilized shell of the Cretaceous-modern spindle sea snail Fusinus

Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Globidens

Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Halisaurus

Restoration of two of the Permian-Late Cretaceous cartilaginous fish Hybodus

Restoration of the Late Cretaceous toothed bird Ichthyornis

Illustration of a fossilized skull of the Late Cretaceous duck-billed dinosaur Lophorhothon

Fossilized skull of the Late Cretceous coelacanth fish Megalocoelacanthus

Interior of a fossilized shell of the Early Ordovician-modern marine bivalve Nucula

A living Odontaspis sand shark

Fossilized skeletons of the Late Cretaceous bony fish Pachyrhizodus

Restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Platecarpus

Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous polycotylid plesiosaur Polycotylus giving birth

Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous sea turtle Protostega

A living Ringicula sea snail

Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous dromaeosaurid Saurornitholestes preying upon a multituberculate mammal

Mounted fossilized skull and neck of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Selmasaurus

Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous shark Squalicorax

Life restoration of the Cretaceous bony fish Stratodus

Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous sea turtle Toxochelys

Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Tylosaurus

Restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Tylosaurus

Life restoration of the Cretaceous bony fish Xiphactinus