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This list of the prehistoric life of Texas contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Texas.
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 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.
Of the 33 species of bats in Texas, the Mexican free-tailed bat is the state's official flying mammal. The species is famous for its massive colonies in Texas, particularly under Austin’s ...
The Waco Mammoth National Monument is found in Waco, Texas. The location of the monument lies on along the Bosque River, within 100 acres of wooded parkland. [12] It is theorized that due to the proximity to the river, the deaths of the uncovered prehistoric animals were a result of flash flooding, drowning the creatures about 67,000 years ago.
State dinosaur of Maryland Astrophocaudia: 2012 Trinity Group (Early Cretaceous, Albian) United States ( Texas) Known from a single partial skeleton Atlantosaurus: 1877 Morrison Formation (Late Jurassic, Kimmeridgian) United States ( Colorado) Potentially synonymous with Apatosaurus, [13] but a referred species may represent a separate taxon [14]
The mammoth, which resembles a small elephant with a trunk, was found near the Batagaika research station where the remains of other prehistoric animals — a horse, a bison and a lemming — have ...
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