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Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Permian synapsid (mammal precursor) Varanosaurus. † Varanosaurus – type locality for genus. † Varanosaurus acutirostris – type locality for species. † Vidria. † Waagenina. † Waagenoceras. † Waggoneria – type locality for genus. † Walchia. † Wattia – type locality for genus.
List of the Paleozoic life of Texas. 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.
Paleontology in Texas refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Texas. Author Marian Murray has said that "Texas is as big for fossils as it is for everything else." [ 1] Some of the most important fossil finds in United States history have come from Texas.
Cast of the holotype humerus. The first Quetzalcoatlus fossils were discovered in Texas from the Maastrichtian Javelina Formation at Big Bend National Park (dated to around 68 million years ago [2]) in 1971 by Douglas A. Lawson, who was then a geology graduate student from the Jackson School of Geosciences at the University of Texas, Austin.
Western Interior Seaway. The Western Interior Seaway (also called the Cretaceous Seaway, the Niobraran Sea, the North American Inland Sea, and the Western Interior Sea) was a large inland sea that split the continent of North America into two landmasses for 34 million years. The ancient sea, which existed from the early Late Cretaceous (100 Ma ...
Designated. July 10, 2015. The Waco Mammoth National Monument is a paleontological site and museum in Waco, Texas, United States where fossils of 24 Columbian mammoths (Mammuthus columbi) and other mammals from the Pleistocene Epoch have been uncovered. The site is the largest known concentration of mammoths dying from a (possibly) reoccurring ...
The Red Beds of Texas and Oklahoma are a group of Early Permian -age geologic strata in the southwestern United States cropping out in north-central Texas and south-central Oklahoma. They comprise several stratigraphic groups, including the Clear Fork Group, the Wichita Group, and the Pease River Group. [1] The Red Beds were first explored by ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 September 2024. Extinct genus of saber-toothed cat Smilodon Temporal range: Early Pleistocene to Early Holocene, 2.5–0.01 Ma Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Mounted S. populator skeleton at Tellus Science Museum Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class ...