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Paluxy is an unincorporated community in Hood County, Texas, United States. [1] The community is located on Farm to Market Road 51, 15 miles southwest of Granbury. It was part of Erath County until 1866, when Hood County was created. [2] Paluxy was named after the Paluxy River that runs through it. In 1887, the population of Paluxy was about 100.
The Paluxy River, also known as Paluxy Creek, is a river in the U.S. state of Texas.It is a tributary of the Brazos River.It is formed by the convergence of the North Paluxy River and the South Paluxy River near Bluff Dale, Texas in Erath County and flows a distance of 29 miles (47 km) before joining the Brazos just to the east of Glen Rose, Texas in south central Somervell County.
The Paluxy Formation is a geological formation found in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma, whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation.
Dinosaur Valley State Park, located just northwest of Glen Rose in Somervell County, Texas, is a 1,524.72-acre (617 ha) scenic park set astride the Paluxy River.The land for the park was acquired from private owners under the State Parks Bonds Program during 1968 and opened to the public in 1972. [4]
The Bluff Dale Bridge is a historic cable-stayed bridge (not a suspension bridge) located near Bluff Dale, Texas, United States.Built in 1891, the bridge spans 225 feet (69 m) across the Paluxy River.
Mushrooms Grow in Forests and Caves. Mushrooms can grow in an amazing variety of places. People seek Morel Mushrooms in forests, railway tracks, or fencerows in North America; the Lion’s Mane ...
Kurt Floyd, 62, of Arlington, Texas, took the buyout because he was planning on retiring after 39 years of government service. Most recently, Floyd worked as a program manager supporting U.S ...
The most famous of these sites is the Paluxy River site in Dinosaur Valley State Park near the town of Glen Rose, Texas, southwest of Fort Worth. In 1938, Roland T. Bird , assistant to Barnum Brown of the American Museum of Natural History ("AMNH") in New York, New York, discovered a dozen sauropod and four theropod or carnosaur trackways all ...