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The oldest fossils in the DFW metroplex can be collected at Mineral Wells Fossil Park NW of Fort Worth. These fossils include well preserved Pennsylvanian marine fossils such as crinoids and brachiopods, which have been dated to 300 million years old. [4] [5] Remnants of dinosaurs and Late Cretaceous marine reptiles such as Mosasaur are found.
The Fort Worth Formation is a geologic formation in Texas. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period. See also. Earth sciences portal; Texas portal; Paleontology portal; List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Texas; Paleontology in Texas; References. Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database.
Named by. Robert T. Hill [1] Year defined. 1887. Eagle Ford stratigraphic column. Outcrop of the Eagle Ford and Austin Chalk Contact off Kiest Blvd, 1/2 mile east of Patriot Pky in Dallas County. The Eagle Ford Group (also called the Eagle Ford Shale) is a sedimentary rock formation deposited during the Cenomanian and Turonian ages of the Late ...
Coordinates: 32°53′46″N 97°21′57″W. Big Fossil Creek is a stream in Tarrant County, in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] Big Fossil Creek was so named on account of the fossils found there by an early settler. The area of North Fort Worth near Big Fossil Creek is occupied indigenous land where Tawakoni, Wichita, Kiikaapoi, Jumanos, and ...
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 ...
Geologic map of Dallas, with Woodbine at left. Woodbine Formation stratigraphic column in Texas. The Woodbine Group is a geological formation in east Texas whose strata date back to the Early to Middle Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous. [1] It is the producing formation of the giant East Texas Oil Field (also known as the "Black Giant ...
Near Fort Worth One specimen A micheleid: Nephrops [19] N. americanus: Fort Worth Numerous specimens A lobster: Nodosculda [20] N. fisherorum: Near Fort Worth Several specimens A mantis shrimp: Paraxiopsis [13] P. erugatus: Near Fort Worth Several specimens An axiid: P. texensis: Near Fort Worth Several specimens An axiid: Raninella [2] R. sp ...
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.