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Texas Pennsylvanian Fossils

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Resources

The following list of resources are provided to help identify specimens that have been collected.  We will be adding to these resources as they become available.

Pictorial Guide to Upper Pennsylvanian Fossils (click to download)

       by Dr. Ben Neuman in conjunction with the Dallas Paleo Society   

      Section 1 - Brachiopoda

      Section 2a - Mollusca

      Section 2b – Mollusca – Cephalopods  

      Section 3 – Cnidaria, Porifera, Bryozoa, Ichnofossils

      Section 4 – Echinodermata

      Section 5 – Foraminifera and Other Microfossils

      Section 6 - Arthopoda


Papers by Dr. Barbara Suess and others 2024  (click to download)

1) Late Pennsylvanian fishes from the Finis Shales of North‑Central Texas

2) On Paleozoic platycerate gastropods

3) Taxonomy and diversity of slit-band gastropods (Order

Pleurotomariida) and some slit bearing Caenogastropoda

from the Pennsylvanian of the USA


4) Virgilian (Late Pennsylvanian) coiled nautiloids from the Finis Shale Member of the Graham Formation in Texas, southern Midcontinent North America


5) Stenolaemate bryozoans from the Graham Formation, Pennsylvanian (Virgilian) at Lost Creek Lake, Texas, USA



Boston 1988 documents

THE SURFICIAL GEOLOGY, PALEONTOLOGY, AND PALEOECOLOGY

OF THE FINIS SHALE (PENNSYLVANIAN LOWER VIRGILIAN) IN JACK

COUNTY, TEXAS.

A Thesis

The surf geology, Boston 1988

Plate 5

Formations around Jacksboro and Bridgeport, provided by Jim Flis.


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