List of the Mesozoic life of North Carolina

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

Illustration of the reconstructed skeleton of the Late Triassic Aetosaurus . Othniel Charles Marsh (1895).

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

Restoration of the Late Triassic lungfish Arganodus with an anachronistic human to scale

Fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous-Eocene crocodilian Borealosuchus

Known material diagram illustrating a reconstructed skull and body of the Late Triassic distant crocodilian relative Carnufex

Life restoration of the face of the Late Cretaceous multituberculate mammal Cimolomys

Fossil of the Early Cretaceous-Eocene shark Cretolamna

Shell of a Cucullaea , or false ark shell

Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous Alligator relative Deinosuchus

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

Fossilized shell of a Glycymeris , or bittersweet clam

Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Halisaurus

Fossilized vertebra of the Late Cretaceous duck-billed dinosaur Hypsibema

Fossilized shell of the Early Jurassic-Late Cretaceous marine bivalve Inoceramus with a human indicating its size

Fossilized skull of the Late Cretaceous alligator relative Leidyosuchus

Fossilized shell of the Triassic-modern marine bivalve Lopha

Fossilized shell of the Early Jurassic-Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Lytoceras

Life restoration of two of the Late Cretaceous Mosasaurus

Fossilized foliage of the Triassic-Middle Jurassic horsetail relative Neocalamites

Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous ostrich dinosaur Ornithomimus

Fossilized foliage of the Carboniferous-Late Cretaceous plant Pagiophyllum

Fossilized shell of the Early Triassic-Pliocene marine bivalve Pholadomya

Restoration of the Late Triassic synapsid (mammal precursor) Placerias with an anachronistic human to scale

Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Prognathodon preying upon an ammonoid cephalopod

Life restoration of the Late Triassic phytosaur Rutiodon

Restoration of the Late Cretaceous bony fish Saurodon

Fossilized skeleton of the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic bony fish Semionotus

Fossilized tooth of the Late Cretaceous shark Squalicorax

Fossilized shell of a Trachycardium cockle

Restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Tylosaurus

Life restoration of the Cretaceous bony fish Xiphactinus

Fossil of the Early Triassic-Eocene cycad-like frond Zamites