List of the prehistoric life of West Virginia

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

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

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

Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous-Early Cretaceous seed fern Alethopteris
Restoration of the Late Devonian-Carboniferous tree Archaeopteris with insets detailing its anatomy
Fossilized fronds of the Carboniferous seed fern Callipteridium
Fossils in enrolled posture of the Silurian trilobite Calymene niagarensis
Life restoration of the Permian synapsid (mammal precursor) Edaphosaurus
Restoration of the Carboniferous-Late Triassic club moss relative Lepidodendron . Eli Heimans (1911).
Fronds of the Carboniferous seed fern Neuropteris
Life restoration of the Middle-Late Devonian lobe-finned fish Onychodus
Life restoration of the Permian reptile Protorothyris
Fossilized shell of the Late Ordovician-Late Triassic brachiopod Spirifer
Life restoration of the Permian amphibian Zatrachys
A living Agkistrodon contortrix , or copperhead
A living Blarina brevicauda , or northern short-tailed shrew
Skeletons look identical
Modern mounted skeleton of Canis lupus , the grey wolf, to scale with a fossilized skeleton of the Pleistocene wolf Canis dirus , or dire wolf
A living Coluber constrictor , or eastern racer
A living Desmodus , or vampire bat
Taxidermied male Ectopistes migratorius , or passenger pigeon
A living Gyrinophilus porphyriticus , or Spring salamander
A living Lepus americanus , or snowshoe hare
Claws of M. jeffersonii
Restoration of the Pliocene-Pleistocene Miracinonyx , or American cheetah
Fossilized skeleton of the Pliocene-Holocene peccary Mylohyus
Close-up of a Neotoma floridana , or eastern woodrat
A living Panthera onca , or jaguar
Restoration of a herd of alarmed Miocene-Pleistocene peccaries of the genus Platygonus . Charles R. Knight (1922).
A living Rangifer tarandus , or reindeer
Life restoration of the Pleistocene-Holocene saber-tooth cat Smilodon
A living Spilogale putorius , or eastern spotted skunk
A living Tapirus , or tapir
A living Vulpes vulpes , or red fox