List of the Mesozoic life of Tennessee

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

A living Acteon barrel bubble sea snail

Fossilized shell of the Jurassic-Miocene sea snail Ampullina

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

Fossil of the Late Cretaceous crab Avitelmessus

Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Baculites

Shell of a Cancellaria nutmeg sea snail

Two views of a Cerithium cerith sea snail

A living Cliona sponge

Shell of a Cucullaea , or false ark shell

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"

Fossilized shell of the Jurassic-Cretaceous foam oyster Exogyra

Shell of a Fasciolaria , or tulip sea snail

Fossilized shell of a Gemmula sea snail , or gem turrid

Fossilized shell of a Glycymeris , or bittersweet clam

Fossil of the Jurassic-Paleogene lobster Hoploparia

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

Shells in multiple views of Latiaxis coral sea snails

Shells in differing orientation of a Littorina sea snail, or periwinkle

Living Membranipora bryozoan

Life restoration of two of the Late Cretaceous Mosasaurus

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

Shell of an Odostomia fusulus pyram sea snail

Shell of an Ostrea , or oyster

Shells of Pecten scallops

Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous mosasaur Plioplatecarpus

Fossilized shell of the Jurassic-Cretaceous marine bivalve Pterotrigonia

Assemblage of fossilized shells of the Cretaceous-Pleistocene oyster Pycnodonte

Fossilized shells of the sea snail Rissoina

Restoration of the Late Cretaceous bony fish Saurodon

Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Scaphites

Shell of a Siphonaria false limpet sea snail

Shell of a Tellina , or tellin

Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Late Cretaceous sea turtle Toxochelys

A living Turbinella , or chank