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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
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 ...
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 ...
Author Marian Murray has said that "Texas is as big for fossils as it is for everything else." [1] Some of the most important fossil finds in United States history have come from Texas. Fossils can be found throughout most of the state. [2] The fossil record of Texas spans almost the entire geologic column from Precambrian to Pleistocene. [3]
Texas is approximately bisected by a series of faults that trend southwest to northeast across the state, from the area of Uvalde to Texarkana.South and east of these faults, the surface exposures consist mostly of Cenozoic sandstone and shale strata that grow progressively younger toward the coast, indicative of a regression that has continued from the late Mesozoic to the present.
Lake Ngapakaldi to Lake Palankarinna Fossil Area; ... in Northwest Colorado and North-East Utah. ... Ladonia, Texas [5] Mineral Wells Fossil Park, Mineral Wells ...