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Texas State Highway 50 leads south from Ladonia 14 miles (23 km) to Commerce. Ladonia Fossil Park is located 2 miles (3 km) north of town on the North Sulphur River. According to the United States Census Bureau, Ladonia has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.2 km 2), all land. [6]
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Texas, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation ... Pease River Group/San Angelo Group/Blaine ...
The Sulphur River is a 175-mile-long (282 km) [2] river in northeast Texas and southwest Arkansas in the United States. It is a tributary of the Red River . Geography
Fossils of the Late Devonian-Permian fern-like fronds Pecopteris †Pecopteris †Pecopteris arborescens †Pecopteris hemitelioides †Pecopteris unita †Pedanochiton – type locality for genus †Pelodosotis – type locality for genus †Pelodosotis elongatum – type locality for species †Peripetoceras †Petalodus †Phlegethontia ...
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.
The Old River Unit borders the Neches River on the north side and has a wildlife viewing platform. Area 4 M.O. Neasloney Gonzales County: 100 acres Used as a wildlife ecology field. [39] Area 2 Mad Island Matagorda County: 7,200 acres Purchased in 1987 and located just west of Matagorda: Area 4 Mason Mountain WMA 5,301
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.
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.