Fossil Finds: Kerrville Site
The town of Kerrville, Texas sits on the southside of Interstate 10. The surrounding area is composed of lower Cretaceous rock that stretches’ all the way north of Dallas. During the early Cretaceous an inland sea called The Western interior Seaway covered what is now the center of North America. In this sea the clams, oysters, snails, crab and urchin below thrived.
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Mollusca – Class: Bivalve
(Clams and Oysters)
Bivalve Trigonia (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Trigonia
Bivalve Pectin Neithia
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Bivalve Neithia shell
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Bivalve Pinna Comanchean (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Bivalve Hippuritoida (Rudist Clams) Core Cast
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Bivalve Gryphaea
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Bivalve Exogyra texana
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Bivalve Certostreon texanum
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Bivalve Peilinia crenulimargo
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Bivalve Cucullaea (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Bivalve Cucullaea (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Bivalve Cucullaea sp. (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Bivalve Protocardia (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Bivalve Artica (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Bivalve Artica (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Mollusca – Class: Gastropoda
(Snails)
Snail Tylostoma tumidum
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Snail Tylostoma
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
CSnail Turritella
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Snail Cerithium
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Snail Cerithium
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Snail Gyrode
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Snail Gyrode
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Arthropoda – Class: Crustacea
(Crab)
Crab Carapace
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Echinodermata – Class: Echinoidea
(Sea Urchins)
Sea Urchin Phynosoma texana
Lower Cretaceous
Kerrville County, Texas