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This list of the Paleozoic 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 538.8 and 252.17 million years of age.
2.1 Selected Paleozoic taxa of Texas. 3 ... This list of the prehistoric life of Texas contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been ...
During the early Paleozoic era Texas was covered by a sea that would later be home to creatures like brachiopods, cephalopods, graptolites, and trilobites. Little is known about the state's Devonian and early Carboniferous life.
List of the Mesozoic life of Texas; List of the Paleozoic life of Texas; A. Acrocanthosaurus; Aguja Formation; Agujaceratops; Alamodactylus; Alamosaurus; Allamoore ...
Shaded relief map of the Llano Estacado. Texas contains a wide variety of geologic settings. The state's stratigraphy has been largely influenced by marine transgressive-regressive cycles during the Phanerozoic, with a lesser but still significant contribution from late Cenozoic tectonic activity, as well as the remnants of a Paleozoic mountain range.
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.
The Llano Uplift is a geologically ancient, low geologic dome that is about 90 miles (140 km) in diameter and located mostly in Llano, Mason, San Saba, Gillespie, and Blanco counties, Texas. It consists of an island-like exposure of Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks surrounded by outcrops of Paleozoic and Cretaceous sedimentary strata.
The Texas cities of Midland, Odessa and San Angelo serve as headquarters for some of the oil production activities in the basin. The Permian Basin is also a major source of potassium salts . Potash mines are located in Lea and Eddy counties, New Mexico, and are operated by the room and pillar method.