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Acrocanthosaurus.. Archaeologist Jack. T. Hughes has found evidence that the paleo-Indians of Texas collected fossils. [20] After the establishment of paleontology as a formal science, in 1878, professor Jacob Boll made the first scientifically documented Texan fossil finds in Archer and Wichita counties while collecting fossils on behalf of Edward Drinker Cope.
This list of the prehistoric life of Texas contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Texas. Precambrian [ edit ]
Eagle Ford stratigraphic column Outcrop of the Eagle Ford and Austin Chalk Contact off Kiest Blvd, 1/2 mile east of Patriot Pky in Dallas County. The Eagle Ford Group (also called the Eagle Ford Shale) is a sedimentary rock formation deposited during the Cenomanian and Turonian ages of the Late Cretaceous over much of the modern-day state of Texas.
The oldest fossils in the DFW metroplex can be collected at Mineral Wells Fossil Park NW of Fort Worth. These fossils include well preserved Pennsylvanian marine fossils such as crinoids and brachiopods, which have been dated to 300 million years old. [4] [5] Remnants of dinosaurs and Late Cretaceous marine reptiles such as Mosasaur are found.
Texas is approximately bisected by a series of faults that trend southwest to northeast across the state, from the area of Uvalde to Texarkana.South and east of these faults, the surface exposures consist mostly of Cenozoic sandstone and shale strata that grow progressively younger toward the coast, indicative of a regression that has continued from the late Mesozoic to the present.
Martin Lockley & Adrian P. Hunt, Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States, Columbia U. Press, New York (1995). J. S. Nagle, Glen Rose Cycles and Facies, Paluxy River Valley, Somervell County, Texas. Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Geological Circular No. 68-1. 25 pp. (1968). J. S. Nagle, Stepping Stair Hills.
Buda Limestone stratigraphic column in Texas. The Buda Limestone is a geological formation in the High Plains and Trans-Pecos regions of West Texas [1] and in southern New Mexico, [2] whose strata date back to the Late Cretaceous. Pterosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. [3]
The Archer City Formation is a geological formation in north-central Texas, preserving fossils from the Asselian and early Sakmarian stages of the Permian period.It is the earliest component of the Texas red beds, introducing a tropical ecosystem which will persist in the area through the rest of the Early Permian.