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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]
T. M. Lehman and A. B. Coulson. 2002. A juvenile specimen of the sauropod dinosaur Alamosaurus sanjuanensis from the Upper Cretaceous of Big Bend National Park, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 76(1):156-172; A. R. Fiorillo. 1998. Preliminary report on a new sauropod locality in the Javelina Formation (Late Cretaceous), Big Bend National Park, Texas.
The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map. [1] There are eight properties and districts listed on the National Register in the park, one of which is a National Historic Landmark.
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 ...
Drought and intense heat have unearthed dozens of dinosaur tracks normally hidden under murky water and mud at a Texas park, photos show. Paul Baker, retail manager at Dinosaur Valley State Park ...
The ages of the Aguja Formation and its primary fossil-bearing unit, the Alto Shale, are not well understood. Due to the presence of the ammonite Baculites mclearni, which only occurs from 80.67 - 80.21 Ma, in the underlying Rattlesnake Mountain Sandstone and the Terlingua Creek Sandstone, it is likely that the Upper Shale was younger than 80.2 Ma. [3]
Dinosaur Valley State Park [Note 2] Glen Rose Formation: Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) North America: US: Texas: Dinosaur footprints Gray Fossil Site: Miocene: North America: US: Tennessee: Mammals Fossil Butte National Monument [Note 3] Green River Formation: Eocene: North America: US: Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming: Fishes [Note 1] Schreiber ...
J. A. Fronimos and T. M. Lehman. 2014. New specimens of a titanosaur sauropod from the Maastrichtian of Big Bend National Park, Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(4):883-899; T. M. Lehman and K. Barnes. 2010. Champsosaurus (Diapsida: Choristodera) from the Paleocene of West Texas: Paleoclimatic Implications. Journal of Paleontology 84 ...