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This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Texas, U.S. Sites. Group or Formation Period
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.
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 ...
Martin Lockley & Adrian P. Hunt, Dinosaur Tracks and Other Fossil Footprints of the Western United States, Columbia U. Press, New York (1995). J. S. Nagle, Glen Rose Cycles and Facies, Paluxy River Valley, Somervell County, Texas. Texas Bureau of Economic Geology Geological Circular No. 68-1. 25 pp. (1968). J. S. Nagle, Stepping Stair Hills.
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 Archer City Formation is a geological formation in north-central Texas, preserving fossils from the Asselian and early Sakmarian stages of the Permian period.It is the earliest component of the Texas red beds, introducing a tropical ecosystem which will persist in the area through the rest of the Early Permian.
These fossils are probably from a later interval of the Arroyo Formation, a segment which would lie between the Kirby Lake and Standpipe Limestone layers further south. The fauna is similar to that of the "Classic area", with Diplocaulus , Dimetrodon , and Orthacanthus fossils being the most common and Eryops and Diadectes also known, albeit ...
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.