List of the Paleozoic life of Michigan

This list of the Paleozoic life of Michigan contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Michigan and are between 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.

Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris

Fossil of the Carboniferous horsetail relative Annularia

Fossilized shell of the Late Ordovician-Carboniferous brachiopod Atrypa

Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic mollusc Bellerophon

Fossilized stems from the Carboniferous-Permian horsetail relative Calamites

Fossil of the Early Ordovician-Early Devonian trilobite Calymene

Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician trilobite Ceraurus

Assemblage of fossils of the Cambrian graptolite Climacograptus

Fossilized foliage of the Carboniferous-Permian conifer relative Cordaites

Fossils (figures 2–10) of the Silurian-Devonian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Erieopterus

Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites

Fossilized calyx and partial stem of the Devonian-Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Gilbertsocrinus

Multiple views of a fossil of the Ordovician horn coral Grewingkia

Fossil of the Ordovician bryozoan ("moss animal") Hallopora

Fossil of the Devonian colonial rugose coral Hexagonaria , also known as a Petoskey stone

Fossilized shells of the Ordovician-Carboniferous sea snail Holopea

Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus .

Restoration of the Carboniferous-Late Triassic club moss relative Lepidodendron . Eli Heimans (1911).

Illustration (lower right, entry 15) of a fossilized shell in front and side views of the Silurian-Late Devonian brachiopod Meristella

Fossilized shell of the Devonian brachiopod Mucrospirifer

Fronds of the Carboniferous seed fern Neuropteris

Fossil of the Ordovician trilobite Ogygites

Assemblage of the Early-Middle Devonian brachiopod Paraspirifer

Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Middle Devonian brachiopod Pentamerus

Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic sea snail Platyceras

Fossil of the Silurian-Carboniferous tabulate coral Pleurodictyum

Restoration of the Silurian trilobite Proetus

Fossils of the Cambrian mollusc Scenella

Fossilized leaves and branches of the Devonian-Triassic horsetail relative Sphenophyllum

Life restorations of a male (foreground) and female (background) of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Stethacanthus

Fossilized shell of the Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Strophomena

Fossil of the Devonian tabulate coral Syringopora

Fossilized shell of the Early Ordovician-Late Devonian probable mollusc Tentaculites

Restoration showing the top (left) and underside of the Late Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus