List of the Paleozoic life of Tennessee

This list of the Paleozoic 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 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.

†Hyolithes

Fossilized calyx of the Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Agaricocrinus americanus , or the mushroom crinoid

Fossils of the Ordovician-Permian bryozoan Amplexopora

Restoration of the Late Ordovician nautiloid cephalopod Aphetoceras being preyed upon by a Cameroceras

Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Aulopora

Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic mollusc Bellerophon

Life restoration of the Early Ordovician-Silurian trilobite Bumastus

Fossil of the Early Ordovician-Early Devonian trilobite Calymene

Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician trilobite Ceraurus

Assemblage of fossilized shells of the Ordovician brachiopod Cincinnetina

Fossil of the Ordovician bryozoan Constellaria

Fossil of the Devonian-Triassic arthropod trackway ichnogenus Cruziana

Fossilized calyx and partial stem of the Silurian-Permian crinoid ("sea lily") Cyathocrinites

Restoration of the Cambrian-Middle Devonian nautiloid cephalopod Cyrtoceras

Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Middle Devonian trilobite Dalmanites

Fossil of the Early-Middle Ordovician cystoid echinoderm Echinosphaerites

Fossilized calyx and partial stem of the Carboniferous crinoid ("sea lily") Eretmocrinus

Fossilized calyx of the Silurian-Middle Devonian crinoid ("sea lily") Eucalyptocrinites

Front (left) and right side (right) views of an enrolled fossil of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian trilobite Flexicalymene

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

Fossilized shell of the Silurian mollusc Helcionopsis

Fossilized shells of the Ordovician-Carboniferous sea snail Holopea

Fossilized shells of the Cambrian-Permian brachiopod relative Hyolitha

Fossil of the Middle Ordovician trilobite Illaenus

Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician giant trilobite Isotelus .

Illustration of a fossilized shell of the Cambrian-Late Ordovician brachiopod Lingulella

Fossil of the Ordovician trilobite Lonchodomas

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

Fossil of the trilobite Paciphacops

Fossilized theca of the Carboniferous blastoid echinoderm ("sea bud") Pentremites

Fossils of the burrow ichnogenus Planolites

Fossilized shell of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Platystrophia

Fossil of the Silurian-Carboniferous tabulate coral Pleurodictyum

Restoration of the Silurian trilobite Proetus

Fossil of the arthropod burrow ichnogenus Rusophycus

Illustration of fossilized shells of the mysterious Cambrian organism Salterella

Fossils of the Cambrian-modern worm burrow ichnogenus Skolithos

Fossilized shell of the Late Ordovician-Late Triassic brachiopod Spirifer

Fossilized shell of the Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Strophomena

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

Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Tricrepicephalus