List of the Paleozoic life of West Virginia

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

Uncited inclusions can be attributed to:

Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris
Fossil of the Carboniferous horsetail relative Annularia
Life restoration of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous tree Archaeopteris macilenta with insets detailing its anatomy
Mold fossil of a shell of the Early Devonian-Late Triassic bivalve Aviculopecten
Fossilized stems from the Carboniferous-Permian horsetail relative Calamites
Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous seed fern Callipteridium
Fossils in enrolled posture of the Silurian trilobite Calymene niagarensis
Life restoration of the Carboniferous four-limbed animal precursor Crassigyrinus
Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Middle Devonian trilobite Dalmanites
Life restoration of a swimming group of the Permian amphibian Diploceraspis
Fossil of the Silurian-Late Devonian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Drepanopterus
Life restoration of the Permian synapsid (mammal precursor) Edaphosaurus
Life restoration of Silurian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Eurypterus
Fossil of the Late Ordovician-Permian tabulate coral Favosites
Life restoration of the Carboniferous four-limbed animal precursor Greererpeton
Life restoration in multiple views of the Silurian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Hughmilleria
Restoration of the Carboniferous-Late Triassic club moss relative Lepidodendron . Eli Heimans (1911).
Shell of the Cambrian-modern brachiopod Lingula
Fossil in cross section of the Carboniferous seed fern stem Lyginopteris
Fossilized shell of the Devonian brachiopod Mucrospirifer
Fronds of the Carboniferous seed fern Neuropteris
Life restoration of the Middle-Late Devonian lobe-finned fish Onychodus
Fossils of the Late Devonian-Permian fern-like fronds Pecopteris
Fossilized tooth of the Carboniferous-Permian shark Petalodus
Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic sea snail Platyceras
Life restoration of the Permian reptile Protorothyris
Shell of a Rhodea land snail
Fossilized stump of the Carboniferous-Permian club moss relative Sigillaria
Fossilized leaves and branches of the Devonian-Triassic horsetail relative Sphenophyllum
Fossilized foliage of the Late-Devonian-Cretaceous seed fern Sphenopteris
Fossilized shell of the Late Ordovician-Late Triassic brachiopod Spirifer
Fossil of the Carboniferous-Permian tree-like club moss relative rhizome Stigmaria
Fossilized shell of the Early Ordovician-Late Devonian probable mollusc Tentaculites
Fossilized head of the Silurian eurypterid ("sea scorpion") Waeringopterus
Life restoration of the Permian amphibian Zatrachys