Fossil Find: Fort Worth Site
Over 110 million years ago the Lower Cretaceous Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas was a shallow sea bottomed with lime muds. This environment produced the limestone we see there today. Limestone rich in marine invertebrate life such as ammonites, snails, urchins and clams.
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Mollusca – Class: Bivalve (clams and oysters)
Bivalve Pectin
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Bivalve Pectin Neithia
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Bivalve Lima
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Bivalve Gryphaea “Devil’s Toenail”
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Bivalve Anoma (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Bivalve Nucula (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Bivalve Cyprimeria texana (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Bivalve Oyster Texigryaea
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Bivalve Leptosolen (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Bivalve (imprint)
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Kingdom: Animailia – Phylum: Mollucsa – Class: Gastropoda (snails)
Snail Tylostoma (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Snail Tylostoma (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Snail uprepped (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Mollusca – Class: Cephalopoda (squid and octopi)
Ammonite Mortoniceras
(complete internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Ammonite Oxytropidoceras
(internal cast segment)
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Ammonite Mortoniceras
(internal cast segment)
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Echinodermata – Class: Echinoidea (sea urchins)
Sea Urchin Heteraster texanus
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Sea Urchin Coenholectypus (Raw)
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Sea Urchin Phynosoma texana
Lower Cretaceous
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas