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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 Comanche would overlap/intersect.
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.
Glen Rose Formation. The Glen Rose Formation is a shallow marine to shoreline geological formation from the lower Cretaceous period exposed over a large area from South Central to North Central Texas. The formation is most widely known for the dinosaur footprints and trackways found in the Dinosaur Valley State Park near the town of Glen Rose ...
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 Cretaceous over much of the modern-day state of Texas.
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.
Barnett Shale - stratigraphy. The Barnett Shale is a geological formation located in the Bend Arch-Fort Worth Basin. It consists of sedimentary rocks dating from the Mississippian period (354–323 million years ago) in Texas. The formation underlies the city of Fort Worth and underlies 5,000 mi 2 (13,000 km 2) and at least 17 counties.
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] In addition to being a state park, it is ...
Dinosaur and crocodilian remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. [5] This fossil formation preserves organisms that were endemic to Appalachia. [6] The Woodbine Group was first mapped and named by Robert T. Hill, known as the "Father of Texas Geology", for outcrops near the small town of Woodbine, Texas in ...