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This list of the Cenozoic life of Texas contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Texas and are between 66 million and 10,000 years of age.
Fossilized skeleton of the Permian primitive four-limbed animal Seymouria †Seymouria – type locality for genus †Seymouria baylorensis – type locality for species †Shouchangoceras †Sigillaria †Sigillaria brardii †Slaugenhopia – type locality for genus; Solemya – tentative report †Solenochilus †Solenopora †Spermatodus
The Texas and Oklahoma red beds are sedimentary rocks, mostly consisting of sandstone and red mudstone. [8] The red color of the rocks is due to the presence of ferric oxide . [ 9 ] The rocks were deposited during the early Permian in a warm, moist climate, [ 10 ] with seasonal periods of dry conditions.
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The printed word does not fully do justice to the earth-shattering discoveries. At a place called the Gault Site, about an hour north of Austin, archaeologists have pushed back the earliest dates ...
During the Cambrian period, Texas was covered by a sea. [4] Cambrian life in Texas included brachiopods, gastropods, graptolites, and trilobites. [5] Areas of Texas distant from the shore were home to bivalves, brachiopods, sponges, and trilobites. [4] Contemporary graptolites were preserved in the central region of the state. [6]
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Neogene animals of South America (4 C, 4 P) I. Neogene invertebrates (8 C, 1 P) N. Miocene animals (8 C, 4 P) P. Pliocene animals (8 C, 4 P) V. Neogene vertebrates (6 C)