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Texas recognizes three official mammals: the nine-banded armadillo, the Texas Longhorn, and the Mexican free-tailed bat. State law protects numerous species. The state also recognizes the Texas State Bison Herd at Caprock Canyons State Park since 2011, [6] the State Longhorn herd at multiple state parks since 1969, [7][6] and the State dog ...
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.
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.
Mammals introduced and extinct in the Holocene except Pleistocene/Holocene boundary are included. According to the IUCN Red List 3 of these species are critically endangered, 20 endangered, 15 vulnerable, 20 near threatened and 4 extinct. [1] Some species are identified as indicated below: (A) - Accidental (E) - Extinct
Family † Kermackodontidae Butler & Hooker 2005. Family † Albionbaataridae Kielan-Jaworowska & Ensom 1994. Family † Eobaataridae Kielan-Jaworowska, Dashzeveg & Trofimov 1987. Superfamily † Allodontoidea Marsh 1889. Genus † Glirodon Engelmann & Callison 2001. Family † Arginbaataridae Hahn & Hahn 1983 non Trofimov 1980.
This is a list of North American mammals. It includes all mammals currently found in the United States, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Canada, Greenland, Bermuda, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean region, whether resident or as migrants. This article does not include species found only in captivity.
Dimetrodon (/ d aɪ ˈ m iː t r ə ˌ d ɒ n / ⓘ [1] or / d aɪ ˈ m ɛ t r ə ˌ d ɒ n /; [2] lit. ' two measures of teeth ') is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsid belonging to the family Sphenacodontidae that lived during the Cisuralian age of the Early Permian period, around 295–272 million years ago.
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.