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Oklahoma was a terrestrial environment for most of the ensuing Mesozoic era. [3] The Late Triassic Dockum Group of western Oklahoma preserved remains of archosaurs and temnospondyls, although its fossil record is restricted to a narrow region of the panhandle and is far sparser than the equivalent records in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. [98]
Pages in category "Paleontology in Oklahoma" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. ... List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Oklahoma ...
Paleontology in Oklahoma; References. Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database" List of Formations in the ...
This list of the prehistoric life of Oklahoma contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of ...
Richards Spur is a Permian fossil locality located at the Dolese Brothers Limestone Quarry north of Lawton, Oklahoma. The locality preserves clay and mudstone fissure fills of a karst system eroded out of Ordovician limestone and dolomite , with the infilling dating to the Artinskian stage of the early Permian ( Cisuralian ), around 289 to 286 ...
Saurophaganax ("lord of lizard-eaters") is a genus of large allosauroid dinosaur from the Morrison Formation of Late Jurassic (latest Kimmeridgian age, about 151 million years ago) Oklahoma, United States. [1] Some paleontologists consider it to be a junior synonym and species of Allosaurus (as A. maximus).
Abludoglyptocrinus † Abyssocrinus † Abyssocrinus antiquus † Abyssomedon – type locality for genus † Abyssomedon williamsi – type locality for species † Acanthobolbina † Acanthobolbina loeblichi † Acanthocladia † Acanthocladia ouachitensis † Acanthocrania † Acanthocrania erecta † Acanthocrania oklahomensis † Acanthocrania subquadrata † Acanthopecten ...
The Red Beds were first explored by American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope starting in 1877. [2] Fossil remains of many Permian tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) have been found in the Red Beds, including those of Dimetrodon, Edaphosaurus, Seymouria, Platyhystrix, and Eryops. A recurring feature in many of these animals is the sail ...