This list of the prehistoric life of Virginia contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Virginia.
Precambrian
The Paleobiology Database records no known occurrences of Precambrian fossils in Virginia.
Modern mounted skeleton of Canis lupus, the grey wolf, to scale with a fossilized skeleton of the Pleistocene wolf Canis dirus, or dire wolf †Canis dirus
Fossilized cranium seen from above and below of the Pleistocene Dasypus bellus, or beautiful armadillo †Dasypus bellus – or unidentified comparable form
Diagram illustrating the largest (grey) and most conservative (red) size estimates of the Miocene-Pliocene shark Carcharocles megalodon (sometimes Carcharodon or Otodusmegalodon) with a whale shark (violet), great white shark (green), and anachronistic human (black) to scale †Otodus megalodon
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