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Bela – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature †Belosaepia †Belosepia; Bison †Bison antiquus; Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Pleistocene Bison latifrons, or long-horned bison †Bison latifrons; Bittiolum – report made of unidentified related form or using admittedly obsolete nomenclature ...
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.
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 Glen Rose Formation is a shallow marine to shoreline geological formation from the lower Cretaceous period exposed over a large area from South Central to North Central Texas. The formation is most widely known for the dinosaur footprints and trackways found in the Dinosaur Valley State Park near the town of Glen Rose, Texas, southwest of ...
Quetzalcoatlus (/ k ɛ t s əl k oʊ ˈ æ t l ə s /) is a genus of azhdarchid pterosaur that lived during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous in what is now North America. The first specimen, recovered in 1971 from the Javelina Formation of Texas, United States, consists of several wing fragments.
However, the most reliable early record of North American dinosaurs comes from fragmentary saurischian fossils unearthed from the Upper Triassic Dockum Group of Texas. [2] Later in the Triassic period, dinosaurs left more recognizable remains, and could be identified as specific genera.
Apatosaurus (/ ə ˌ p æ t ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s /; [3] [4] meaning "deceptive lizard") is a genus of herbivorous sauropod dinosaur that lived in North America during the Late Jurassic period. Othniel Charles Marsh described and named the first-known species, A. ajax, in 1877, and a second species, A. louisae, was discovered and named by William ...
First known non-avian dinosaur skeleton from the United States. Discovered in 1858 in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Hierosaurus: Upper Cretaceous: herbivore: A dubious genus of nodosaur unearthed in Kansas. Hypsibema: Upper Cretaceous: herbivore: Little known hadrosaur first discovered in North Carolina in 1869. Better material of a second species ...