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List of the Mesozoic life of Texas. Appearance. This list of the Mesozoic 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 252.17 and 66 million years of age.
3.1 Selected Mesozoic taxa of Texas. 4 Cenozoic. ... This list of the prehistoric life of Texas contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains ...
Paleontology in Texas. Paleontology in Texas refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Texas. 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.
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.
Walter Scott Adkins. Walter Scott Adkins (24 December 1890 – 22 September 1956) was a geologist and paleontologist, known for his books Handbook of Texas Cretaceous Fossils (1928) and "The Mesozoic Systems in Texas" (1933). He is also known for his work on the distribution of shoestring and barrier sands in the subsurface of the Miocene and ...
The Red Beds of Texas and Oklahoma are a group of Early Permian -age geologic strata in the southwestern United States cropping out in north-central Texas and south-central Oklahoma. They comprise several stratigraphic groups, including the Clear Fork Group, the Wichita Group, and the Pease River Group. [1] The Red Beds were first explored by ...
Waco Mammoth National Monument. Waggoner Ranch Formation. Wannchampsus. Wannia. Word Formation. Categories: Geology of Texas. Paleontology in the United States by state. Natural history of Texas.
Phobosuchus Nopcsa, 1924. Deinosuchus (/ ˌdaɪnəˈsjuːkəs /) is an extinct genus of alligatoroid crocodilian, related to modern alligators and caimans, that lived 82 to 73 million years ago (Ma), during the late Cretaceous period. The name translates as "terrible crocodile" and is derived from the Greek deinos (δεινός), "terrible ...