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The prehistoric bony fish of Texas are known largely from Cretaceous rocks. Fossils include mostly teeth, vertebrae, and scales, although sometimes well preserved skeletons are found in the Austin Chalk member. [6] During the Turonian Texas was home to the fish Pachyrhizodus leptopsis. [15] Early Cretaceous heart urchins and biscuit urchins.
Life restoration of the Late Cretaceous pterosaur Cimoliopterus (left) stealing fish from another pterosaur †Cimoliopterus †Cimoliopterus dunni – type locality for species †Cimolodon †Cimolodon electus – or unidentified comparable form †Cimolomys †Cimolomys clarki †Clevosaurus – or unidentified comparable form †Clidastes
The map of North America with the Western Interior Seaway during the Campanian. The Western Interior Seaway (also called the Cretaceous Seaway, the Niobraran Sea, the North American Inland Sea, or the Western Interior Sea) was a large inland sea that split the continent of North America into two landmasses for 34 million years.
Henry Gault, from whom the site takes its name, put together a 250-acre farm in the Buttermilk Creek Valley, starting in 1904. At some point in the early 20th century he found extra income as an informant for early archaeological explorations in Central Texas working with the first professional archaeologist in Texas, J.E. Pearce, as well as avocational archaeologists (Alex Dienst, Kenneth ...
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 Goliad Formation (Tg) [1] is a geologic formation in Texas.It preserves fossils dating back to the Serravallian to earliest Pliocene stages (Clarendonian, Hemphillian and earliest Blancan in the NALMA classification) of the Neogene period, [2] including the gomphothere Blancotherium among many other fossil mammals, reptiles, birds and fish.
One of the coolest, most prehistoric-looking fish lives in Florida’s offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It happens to be one of the best to eat but also one of the most elusive.
The Columbian mammoth was a herbivore, with a diet consisting of varied plant life ranging from grasses to conifers. [4] At this time, the Central Texas landscape consisted of temperate grasslands and savannahs surrounded by river floodplains. [5] How the animals at the site died is unknown, but there is no evidence that humans were involved.