The following are lists of prehistoric animals:
By type
Land and avian animals
- List of prehistoric amphibian genera
- List of prehistoric mammals
- List of fossil bird genera
- List of crurotarsan genera
Pterosaurs
Dinosaurs
- List of dinosaur genera
- List of informally named dinosaurs
- List of dinosaur species on display
- Lists of dinosaur specimens
- List of non-avian dinosaur species preserved with evidence of feathers
- List of fictional dinosaurs
By location
Marine animals
Corals
Echinoderms
Fish
Other marine animals
- List of chitinozoan genera
- List of eurypterid genera
- List of mosasaur genera
- List of prehistoric annelid genera
- List of prehistoric barnacles
- List of prehistoric brittle stars
- List of prehistoric bryozoan genera
- List of prehistoric chitons
- List of prehistoric foraminifera genera
- List of ichthyosauromorph genera
- List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record
- List of plesiosaur genera
- List of prehistoric malacostracans
- List of prehistoric medusozoan genera
- List of prehistoric nautiloid genera
- List of prehistoric ostracod genera
- List of prehistoric sea cucumbers
- List of prehistoric sponge genera
- List of trilobite genera
By location
- Paleobiota of the La Brea Tar Pits, California, United States
- Paleobiota of the London Clay, England
- List of White Sea biota species by phylum, Russia
- Paleobiota of the Hell Creek Formation, northern United States
- Paleobiota of the Morrison Formation, western United States