List of the prehistoric life of Michigan

This list of the prehistoric life of Michigan contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Michigan.

The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Michigan.

The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Mesozoic fossils in Michigan.

Fossil of the Carboniferous horsetail relative Annularia
Fossil of the Middle-Late Ordovician trilobite Ceraurus
Flexicalymene enrolled
Fossil of the Devonian colonial rugose coral Hexagonaria , also known as a Petoskey stone
Fossilized shell of the Devonian brachiopod Mucrospirifer
Fronds of the Carboniferous seed fern Neuropteris
Fossilized shell of the Silurian-Early Triassic sea snail Platyceras
Restoration of the Silurian trilobite Proetus
Life restorations of a male (foreground) and female (background) of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous Chimaera relative Stethacanthus
Restoration showing the top (left) and underside of the Late Ordovician trilobite Triarthrus
A living Alces , or moose
A living Anaxyrus americanus (formerly Bufo americanus ), or American toad
Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Pleistocene giant beaver Castoroides
Illustration of a living Esox lucius , or northern pike
A living Grus americana , or whooping crane
Life restorations of a Mammut americanum , or American mastodon (right), and a Mammuthus primigenius , or wooly mammoth (left)
A living Odocoileus virginianus , or white-tailed deer
Restoration of a herd of alarmed Miocene-Pleistocene peccaries of the genus Platygonus . Charles R. Knight (1922).
Rangifer
A living Ursus americanus , or American black bear
Leaves and fruit of a living Vitis , or grapevine