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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 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.
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 Antelope Creek phase was an American Indian culture in the Texas panhandle and adjacent Oklahoma dating from AD 1200 to 1450. [1] The two most important areas where the Antelope Creek people lived were in the Canadian River valley centered on present-day Lake Meredith near the city of Borger, Texas, and the Buried City complex in Wolf Creek valley near the town of Perryton, Texas.
Shaded relief map of the Llano Estacado. Texas contains a wide variety of geologic settings. The state's stratigraphy has been largely influenced by marine transgressive-regressive cycles during the Phanerozoic, with a lesser but still significant contribution from late Cenozoic tectonic activity, as well as the remnants of a Paleozoic mountain range.
The fish, which lived over 300 million years ago, was discovered by New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science research associate Susan Harris. Navajo high school teacher brings knowledge of ...
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.
Prehistoric amphibians (Capitosauridae, Trematosaurinae), ray finned fish (Semionotiformes and Palaeoniscidae), cartilaginous fish (Xenacanthida) and insects (Protorthoptera) [5] Great Otway National Park: Cretaceous: Oceania: Australia: Victoria: Otway Basin Dutton Way – Early Pliocene; Arch site – Middle Miocene; Clifton Banks – Middle ...