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Texas State Highway 50 leads south from Ladonia 14 miles (23 km) to Commerce. Ladonia Fossil Park is located 2 miles (3 km) north of town on the North Sulphur River. According to the United States Census Bureau, Ladonia has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.2 km 2), all land. [6]
The Sulphur River is a 175-mile-long (282 km) [2] river in northeast Texas and southwest Arkansas in the United States. It is a tributary of the Red River . Geography
This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Texas, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation ... Pease River Group/San Angelo Group/Blaine ...
Paluxy Formation stratigraphic column in Texas. The Paluxy Formation is a geological formation found in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Oklahoma, whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that have been recovered from the formation. [4]
Fossils of the Late Devonian-Permian fern-like fronds Pecopteris †Pecopteris †Pecopteris arborescens †Pecopteris hemitelioides †Pecopteris unita †Pedanochiton – type locality for genus †Pelodosotis – type locality for genus †Pelodosotis elongatum – type locality for species †Peripetoceras †Petalodus †Phlegethontia ...
Shaded relief map of the Llano Estacado. Texas contains a wide variety of geologic settings. The state's stratigraphy has been largely influenced by marine transgressive-regressive cycles during the Phanerozoic, with a lesser but still significant contribution from late Cenozoic tectonic activity, as well as the remnants of a Paleozoic mountain range.
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.
This list of the Cenozoic 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 66 million and 10,000 years of age.