Texas Memorial Museum
Exhibits focus on dinosaurs and fossils, Texas wildlife, gems and minerals, and a working Paleontology Lab where visitors can interact with scientists as they prepare fossil finds. Spotlighted in the exhibits are spectacular specimens found in Texas, including the largest flying creature ever found—the Texas Pterosaur, with a wingspan of nearly 40 feet–and the 30-foot mosasaur that swam the shallow sea which once covered most of the state.
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Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Trans-Pecos Texas: Ceratomorpha Less Amynodontidae
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1984-12-07)Ceratomorph remains found in Eocene and Oligocene deposits of Trans-Pecos Texas are herein described, except for the amynodonts which were described in a previous paper. Hyracodon primus, Hyracodon petersoni, and Colodon ... -
Butterflies from the Middle Eocene: The Earliest Occurrence of Fossil Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera)
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1978)Three fossil butterflies recently collected from the Green River Shale of Colorado extend the known range of Rhopalocera eight to ten million years back, to 48 Ma. Praepapilio Colorado n. g., n. sp., and P. gracilis n. ... -
New Brazilian Forms of Hyla
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1968-04)The author describes three new species and three new subspecies of Hyla, found during her work toward a monograph of the species of Hyla which occur in Brazil. The new species are: Hyla adenoderma from Rondonia territory; H. ... -
Devil's Graveyard Formation (New) Eocene and Oligocene Age Trans-Pecos Texas
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1984)The Devil's Graveyard Formation (new, Eocene and Oligocene) is described as that part of the Buck Hill Group above the Cretaceous and beneath the Mitchell Mesa Rhyolite or the Yellow conglomerate of Moon (1953). It replaces ... -
Handbook of Texas Archaeology: Type Descriptions
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Stratigraphic Occurrence and Correlation of Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Trans-Pecos Texas
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1977)Strategraphic positions for the Candelaria local fauna (late Uintan), the Porvenir local fauna (early Chadronian), Little Egypt, and Airstrip local faunas (Chadronian) within the Vieja Group are given. The Porvenir local ... -
The Arroyo Formaton (Leonardian: Lower Permian) and Its Vertebrate Fossils
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1989-07)Studies of the Arroyo formation from northern Haskell County south to Runnels County, Texas trace the changes in organisms and environments from the classic terrestrial beds of Baylor and Wilbarger Counties to the fully ... -
Vertebrate Footprints and Invertebrate Traces from the Cadronian(Late Eocene) of Trans-Pecos Texas
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1994)Ceratomorph remains found in Eocene and Oligocene deposits of Trans-Pecos Texas are herein described, except for the amynodonts which were described in a previous paper. Hyracodon primus, Hyracodon petersoni, and Colodon ... -
Carnivorous Mammals of the Late Eocene and Early Ogliocene of Trans-Pecos Texas
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1986-12)The fossil carnivore fauna of the late Eocene (Bridgerian-Uintan) and early Oligocene (Chadronian) of Trans-Pecos Texas includes specimens from stratigraphically superimposed faunas of three areas: the Sierra Vieja (Vieja ... -
The Spider Family Nesticidae(Araneae) in North America, Central America, and the West Indies
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1984)A systematic review of the spiders of the family Nesticidae from North America, Central America, and the West Indies is presented with analyses of their features and relationships. The sedentary nesticids spin small tangled ... -
La Harpe's 1719 Post on Red River and Nearby Caddo Settlements
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Further Studies on the Cavernicole Fauna of Mexico and Adjacent Regions
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A Review of the Cavernicole Fauna of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize
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Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Vieja Group and Buck Hill Froup, Trans-Pecos Texas: Photoceratidae, Camelidae, HyperTragulidae
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1974-04)Upper and lower dentitions of Leptoreodon marshi from the late Eocene are described. Leptoreodon is placed in the Protoceratidae and the family Leptomerycidae abandoned. A new genus of late Eocene protoceratid is described ... -
Lower Cenomanian and Late Albian Ammonites, Especially Leylliceridae of Texas and Mexico
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, undated)The Early Cenomanian of Texas and northern Mexico contains numerous species of lyellicerines, and the late Early Cenomanian Buda Limestone is especially dominated by them. The three lyellicerine genera are Sto- Hczkaia, ... -
Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoecology of Paleocene Black Peaks Formation, Big Bend National Park, Texas
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1974-08)The fauna of the Black Peaks Formation is the southernmost large Paleocene fauna of North America. It contains 29 species of mammals belonging to 28 genera and includes three new species, a barylambdid pantodont, a ... -
A Systematic Study of the Neotropical Vine Snake
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, undated)Oxybelis aeneus is an elongated, slender-bodied vine snake that occurs at low to moderate and occasionally higher elevations throughout most of the Neotropical Region. The nomenclatural history of Oxybelis aeneus is reviewed. ... -
Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas Vieja Group Trans-Pecos Texas: Rodentia
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1974-04)The fossil rodents of the late Eocene to early Oligocene Vieja Group are described. They include the paramyids Leptotomus leptodus, L. gigans n. sp., Mytonomys gaitania, Microparamys perjossus n. sp., Ischyrotomus cf, ... -
Competition and Isolation Mechanishms in the Gambusia Affinis X. G. Heterochir Hybrid Swarm
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Red Light Local Fauna (Blancan) of the Love Formation, Southeastern Hudspeth County, Texas
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1970-02)Two new formations in the Red Light Bolson have yielded vertebrate fossils. The Red Light local fauna consists of thirty taxa of mammals and numerous lower vertebrates from fluvial deposits. The much smaller Aguila local ...
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