Fossil Find: Weatherford Site
Over 110 million years ago in what is now Weatherford, Parker County, Texas; there was a shallow sea bottomed depositing lime muds. This lower Cretaceous environment produced the limestone we see there today, rich in marine invertebrate life such as ammonites, snails, urchins and clams.
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Mollusca – Class: Bivalve (clams and oysters)
Bivalve Anoma (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Weatherford, Parker County, Texas
Bivalve Artica (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Weatherford, Parker County, Texas
Bivalve Neithea duplicicosta
Lower Cretaceous
Weatherford, Parker County, Texas
Bivalve Oyster Texigryaea
Lower Cretaceous
Weatherford, Parker County, Texas
Kingdom: Animailia – Phylum: Mollucsa – Class: Gastropoda (snails)
Snail Turritella (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Weatherford, Parker County, Texas
Snail Turritella (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Weatherford, Parker County, Texas
Snail Tylostoma (internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Weatherford, Parker County, Texas
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Mollusca – Class: Cephalopoda (squid and octopi)
Ammonite Metengonoceras
(internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Weatherford, Parker County, Texas
Ammonite Mortoniceras
(internal cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Weatherford, Parker County, Texas
Ammonite Oxytropidoceras (Internal Cast)
Lower Cretaceous
Weatherford, Parker County, Texas
Kingdom: Animalia – Phylum: Echinodermata – Class: Echinoidea (sea urchins)
Sea Urchin (weathered) Heteraster texanus
Lower Cretaceous
Weatherford, Parker County, Texas