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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.
Bela – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature †Belosaepia †Belosepia; Bison †Bison antiquus; Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Pleistocene Bison latifrons, or long-horned bison †Bison latifrons; Bittiolum – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature ...
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Texas, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation Period
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.
The Red Beds were first explored by American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope starting in 1877. [2] Fossil remains of many Permian tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) have been found in the Red Beds, including those of Dimetrodon, Edaphosaurus, Seymouria, Platyhystrix, and Eryops. A recurring feature in many of these animals is the sail ...
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 ...
Pleistocene bison bones, found in the 1870s, provided the first evidence of early human activity; a re-examination of the bones in 1999 found that they were scored with tell-tale cut marks, indicating that humans had butchered the animals with stone tools. [6] Paleolithic handaxe, from Happisburgh, found on the beach by a man walking his dog in ...
Neanderthal fossils were discovered in 1856, but at the time it was not clear that they represented a different species from modern humans. Eugene Dubois created a sensation with his discovery of Java Man , the first fossil evidence of a species that seemed clearly intermediate between humans and apes, in 1891.