List of the Paleozoic life of Virginia

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

†Hyolithes

Fossils of the Ordovician-Permian bryozoan Amplexopora

Fossils of the Carboniferous-Permian bryozoan Archimedes

Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic mollusc Bellerophon

Life restoration of the Late Devonian placoderm fish Bothriolepis

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

Assemblage of fossils of the Cambrian graptolite Climacograptus

Fossilized shell of the Late Devonian-Permian brachiopod Composita

Fossil of the Middle Ordovician-Carboniferous horn coral Cornulites

Restoration of the Cambrian-Middle Devonian nautiloid cephalopod Cyrtoceras

Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Middle Devonian trilobite Dalmanites

Cambrian graptolite Diplograptus

Fossil of the Early-Middle Ordovician cystoid echinoderm Echinosphaerites

Illustration with inset cross-section diagrams of the Cambrian sponge Ethmophyllum

Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites

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

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

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 .

Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Kootenia

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

Life restoration of the Early Ordovician nautiloid cephalopod Levisoceras

Fossil of the Ordovician trilobite Lonchodomas

Restoration of the Cambrian trilobite Meteoraspis

Life restoration of the Silurian trilobite Miraspis

Fossilized shell of the Early Devonian – Triassic sea snail Naticopsis

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

Restoration of the Cambrian trilobite Olenellus

Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Pagetia

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

Fossilized shell of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian brachiopod Platystrophia

Restoration of the Silurian trilobite Proetus

Fossil of the Early Ordovician-Permian benthic alga Receptaculites

Shell of a Rhodea land snail

Illustration of fossilized shells of the mysterious Cambrian organism Salterella

Fossils of the red alga Solenopora

Fossil of the Middle Ordovician-Silurian trilobite Sphaerexochus

Fossilized shell of the Late Ordovician-Late Triassic brachiopod Spirifer

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

Fossil of the Cambrian trilobite Tricrepicephalus

Fossils of the bore-hole ichnogenus Trypanites