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Cretaceous vertebrate life of Texas included amphibians, birds, dinosaurs, fish, and reptiles. [4] Almost a quarter of Texas is covered by Cretaceous rocks and are a good source of fossils. [6] Most of Texas was submerged under the Western Interior Seaway during the Cretaceous. [12]
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
Group or Formation Period Notes Admiral Formation: Permian: Aguja Formation: Cretaceous: Alacran Mountain Formation: Permian: Albany Group/Lueders Formation: Permian: Albany Group/Waggoner Ranch Formation
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 ...
The Trinity Group is a group (sequence of rock strata) in the Lower Cretaceous lithostratigraphy of Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Oklahoma. [2] [3] [4] It is named for the Trinity River of Texas. A stratigraphic column at the Mount Bonnell Fault location starts with the Lower Cretaceous Trinity Group overlain by the Edwards Group.
Eagle Ford stratigraphic column Outcrop of the Eagle Ford and Austin Chalk Contact off Kiest Blvd, 1/2 mile east of Patriot Pky in Dallas County. The Eagle Ford Group (also called the Eagle Ford Shale) is a sedimentary rock formation deposited during the Cenomanian and Turonian ages of the Late Cretaceous over much of the modern-day state of Texas.
Cretaceous Formations of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex Geologic map and the labeled geologic formations that lie directly beneath the surface in Dallas County Cretaceous formations of Texas Where the DFW Metroplex was located during the last super continent known as Pangea Placement of Tectonic Plates and DFW location around ≈94 million years ago The Cretaceous rocks in the DFW Metroplex ...
Fossilized shell of the Late Cretaceous ammonoid cephalopod Baculites † Baculites † Baculites aquilaensis - or unidentified loosely related form † Baculites claviformis † Baculites haresi – or unidentified comparable form † Baculites ovatus † Baculites scotti † Baculites taylorensis † Baculites tippahensis † Baculites undatus † Baena – report made of unidentified ...