Index
Reading edition
Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
Acanthoceras: 77
Actinomma: 49
Africa: 87
Agnatha: 87
Alaska: 7
Alectryonia lugubris: 68
algae: 44, 46, 47
“algal biscuits”: 44
alligators: 95
Allorisma: 67
Allosaurus: 90, 97, 98
Allotheria: 100
allotherians: 100
Amarillo College: 27
amber: 7
amblypods: 102
Ambocoelia: 57
Amelanchier: 48
American Museum of Natural History: 2, 15, 96
ammonites: 11, 75, 76, 77, 78
Ammonoidea: 66
ammonoids: 75, 76, 77, 78
Amphibia: 89
amphibians: 87, 92
Amphineura: 56
Amphiscapha: 61
Ancilla: 64
Angulotreta: 55, 56
ankylosaurs: 90, 97, 99
Annelida: 78
annelids: 78
Anomia: 74
anteaters: 100
Anthozoa: 49, 51
Apsotreta: 55, 56
aragonite: 11
Archelon: 91
Archetectonica: 64
Archaeopteryx: 100
Archeozoic, derivation and pronunciation: 33
Archer County: 89
Archimedes: 54
arietina, Exogyra: 70
Aristotle: 3
Arizona: 7
Arkansas: 37
Arlington State College: 1, 27
armadillos: 100, 102
Aronow, Saul: 1
Arthropoda: 78, 79, 80
arthropods: 10, 78, 79, 80
crustaceans: 79, 80
insects: 7, 79
ostracodes: 79, 80
trilobites: 78, 80
Articulata: 56
Artiodactyla: 106
artiodactyls: 106
camels: 106
entelodonts: 101, 106
ash, volcanic: 5
Astacodes: 79
Astartella: 67
Asteroidea: 82
asteroids: 82, 83
Asterozoa: 82
Astraeospongium: 50
Astrhelia: 53
Astylospongia: 50
Aulosteges tuberculatus: 12, 13
Austin: 14, 17, 19, 87
Austin College: 27
Australia: 87
author, of a fossil: 22
autopores: 51
Aves: 89, 100
Avonia: 12, 13
signata: 12, 13
subhorrida: 12, 13
B
bacteria: 47
Baculites: 77
bags, collecting: 17, 18
Balcones fault zone: 36, 37
baluchitheres: 104, 106
Baluchitherium: 106
Barbatia: 74
Baylor County: 89
Baylor University: 1, 2, 27, 90, 91, 95
Beaumont: 1, 34
clay: 34
Beaver, Harold: 1
Belemnites: 77, 78
Belemnoidea: 78
belemnoids: 77, 78
Bellerophon: 61
Big Bend area: 35, 36
National Park: 35, 97, 102
Big Spring: 89
binomial nomenclature: 21-22
Bird, R. T.: 2, 15, 96
birds, fossil: 5, 100
Blastoidea: 81
blastoids: 26, 28, 81
Blinn College: 27
bone, permineralized: 9
Books About Fossils: 108-110
Boon, Jack: 1
Brachiopoda: 54, 55, 56
brachiopods: 26, 29, 54, 55, 56
articulate: 54, 55, 56, 57, 58
Cambrian: 55
Cretaceous: 56
inarticulate: 55, 56
Mississippian: 55
Pennsylvanian: 57, 58
Permian: 12, 13
Recent: 56
silicified: 12, 13
symmetry: 24, 26, 29
Brachiosaurus: 90
Brewster County: 11, 12, 35, 41
brittle stars: 82
Bronaugh, Richmond L.: 1
Brontosaurus: 90, 97, 98
Brontotherium: 104, 105, 106
Brown, L. F., Jr.: 1
Bryophyta: 44
Bryozoa: 51, 54, 55
116
bryozoans: 26, 27, 28, 30, 51, 54, 55, 84
Mississippian: 54
Pennsylvanian: 55
bulla, Venericardia: 72
Bureau of Economic Geology: 2, 19
burrows: 14
“button corals”: 49, 53
C
Calamites: 48
calcite: 10, 11
callus: 59
Calyptraphorus: 64
Camarotoechia: 55
Cambrian—
derivation and pronunciation: 34
fossils: 40
brachiopods: 55
graptolites: 86
of Franklin Mountains, Llano, Marathon, and Solitario uplifts: 40
camels: 106
cameratus, Neospirifer: 58
Caninia: 51, 52
Canis diris: 102, 103
domestica: 22
caprinid: 27, 30
caprock, of High Plains: 35
carbon residues: 10, 86
Carboniferous: 34
carinata, Ostrea: 71
Carnivora: 102
carnivores: 102, 103
Caryocorbula: 74
Caryocrinites: 81
Casey, Josephine: 2
casts: 11
catalog, fossil; number: 31
cement, portland: 19
Cenozoic—
derivation and pronunciation: 33
periods of: 34
rocks in Texas: 43
central Asia: 106
central Texas: 11, 42
Cephalopoda: 56, 66, 75, 78
cephalopods: 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 66, 75, 76, 77, 78
ammonites: 75, 76, 77, 78
ammonoids: 75, 76, 77, 78
belemnoids: 77, 78
ceratites: 75, 78
coleoids: 77, 78
cuttlefish: 78
goniatites: 75, 76
nautiloids: 66, 75, 76
octopus: 66, 78
squid: 66, 78
sutures: 66, 75, 78
ceratites: 75, 78
ceratopsians: 90, 99, 100
Ceratosaurus: 90
Cerithium: 62
chalicotheres: 104, 106
Chelonia. See turtles.
chisels: 17
chitin: 10
chitons: 56
Chondrichthyes: 87
Chonetes: 57
Chordata: 84-102
chordates: 84
amphibians: 89, 92
birds: 100
fishes: 87, 88, 89
graptolites: 40, 84, 86
mammals: 100-107
reptiles: 89-100
Cladochonus: 51, 52
Cladophyllia: 53
clams: 11, 56, 59. See also pelecypods.
class, taxonomic: 22
classification, binomial nomenclature: 21-22
units of: 22
club mosses: 47
coal: 20, 47
mines: 20, 47
plants: 16, 46, 47, 48
Cochlespiropsis: 63
Coelenterata: 49, 51, 84
coelenterates: 49, 51-53
Coleoidea: 66
coleoids: 77, 78
collecting bags: 17, 18
columella, corals: 51
gastropods: 59, 60
columnal, crinoid: 81, 82, 83
Comanchean series of Cretaceous: 34. See also Lower Cretaceous.
compass: 19
Composita subtilita: 57
compound corals. See corals, colonial.
concretions: 16
coniferous trees: 7
conodonts: 41, 88, 89
Conus: 63
Cooper, G. A.: 2, 12
coprolites: 14
corallite: 49, 51
corallum: 51
corals: 11, 24, 26, 27, 49, 51, 52, 53
“button”: 49, 53
colonial: 24, 27, 30, 51, 52, 53
Cretaceous: 53
“horn”: 49, 51, 52
morphology: 51
Pennsylvanian: 52
polyp: 49
solitary: 24, 28, 29, 30, 49, 51, 52, 53
symmetry: 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
Tertiary: 53
Cordaites: 48
correlation: 32
Corythosaurus: 90
cotylosaurs: 89, 92
crabs: 78, 79
Crassatella: 72
crayfish: 78
creodonts: 102
Cretaceous—
See also Comanchean and Gulf series.
derivation and pronunciation: 34
fossils: 42-43
arthropods: 79
brachiopods: 56
cephalopods: 66, 67, 76, 77
corals: 53
crocodiles: 95, 96
dinosaurs: 90, 91, 93, 94, 95, 97, 99
echinoderms: 83, 84, 85
foraminifers: 49
gastropods: 59, 62
nautiloids: 76
pelecypods: 59, 66, 68-71
117
shark teeth: 88
worms: 78
tubes: 9
of central Texas, Edwards Plateau, Gulf Coastal Plain, High Plains, north Texas, and Trans-Pecos Texas: 42
“Pyrite Fossil Zone” of: 11
crinoidal limestone: 41, 82, 83
Crinoidea: 81
crinoids: 26, 28, 41, 81, 82, 83
calyx: 81, 82, 83
morphology: 81
stems: 26, 28, 81, 82, 83
Crockett County: 42
Crockett formation: 43
crocodiles: 95, 96
crossopterygians: 87
crustaceans: 79, 80
Culberson County: 35
cuttlefish: 78
cycads: 47, 48
Cymatoceras: 75, 76
Cystoidea: 81
cystoids: 81, 82, 83
D
“Dark Ages”: 3
da Vinci, Leonardo: 3
Davis, Darrell: 1
Decapoda. See Coleoidea.
deer: 106
Del Mar College: 27
dendrites: 14
Dendrograptus: 86
Denver, Colorado: 19
Derbya: 57
Devonian—
derivation and pronunciation: 34
fossils: 41
placoderms: 87, 88
Psilophyton: 48
of El Paso and Van Horn regions, Llano and Marathon uplifts: 41
Diablo Mountains: 41
diatoms: 44, 46, 47
Dibranchiata. See Coleoidea.
Dictyoclostus: 55
Dimetrodon: 92
Dinobastis: 102, 103
Dinocerata: 102
dinocerates: 102, 105
dinosaurs: 89, 90-94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100
armored: 90, 97, 99, 100
duck-billed: 90, 97, 99
flying: 91, 94, 95
horned: 90, 99, 100
plate-bearing: 90, 97, 99
swimming: 91, 93, 95
Diplodocus: 90
Diplograptus: 86
dire wolf: 102, 103
diris, Canis: 102, 103
distillation: 10
Distorsio: 63
division, plant: 44
Dixon, J. W., Jr.: 2, 90, 91
dolomite: 11
dolphins: 95
domestica, Canis: 22
DuBar, Jules: 1
Dufrenoyia: 77
E
Eastland County: 20
East Texas State College: 27
Echinodermata: 80-84
echinoderms: 80-84
asteroids: 82, 83
blastoids: 81
crinoids: 81, 82, 83
cystoids: 81, 82, 83
echinoids: 82, 84, 85
holothuroids: 84
sclerites: 83
Echinoidea: 82
echinoids: 26, 28, 29, 82, 84, 85
Cretaceous: 84, 85
plates: 84, 85
spines: 84, 85
Echinozoa: 82
Edentata: 100
edentates: 100, 101, 102
Edwards Plateau: 19, 36, 37, 42, 43
Egyptian desert: 3
Elasmosaurus: 91
elephants: 102
Eleutherozoa: 82
Ellison, Samuel P.: 1
El Paso region—
Devonian of: 41
Ordovician of: 40
Precambrian of: 40
Silurian of: 40
Endopachys: 53
Enoploclytia: 79
entelodont: 101, 106
Eohippus. See Hyracotherium.
epoch, geologic: 33
era, geologic: 33-34
Erath County: 20
Eryops: 92
Euomphalus: 61
Euphemites: 62
Europe: 89
Exogyra arietina: 70
laeviscula: 70
ponderosa: 70
texana: 70
F
“false fossils”: 14
family, taxonomic: 22
“feather stars”: 82
ferns: 47, 48
fish: 87, 88, 89
armored: 41, 88
carbon residue: 9
scales: 10
teeth: 10
vertebrae: 10
Fistulipora: 55
Flabellum: 53
foramen, pedicle: 54, 56
Foraminifera: 47, 49
Cretaceous: 49
fusulinids: 26, 29, 49
orbitoid: 26, 28
Pennsylvanian: 49
forams: 26, 28, 29, 47, 49
formation, geologic: 34
fossil—
birds: 5, 100
burrows: 14
cataloging: 31
collecting: 17
118
equipment: 17
ethics: 20
how to collect: 20
where to look: 19
definition: 3
dung: 14
footprints: 14
gizzard stone: 14
identification: 21, 23-30
keys: 26-30
preservation—
altered hard parts: 10-11
carbonization: 9, 10
mineralization: 10
permineralization: 10
petrifaction: 10
replacement, calcareous, iron, siliceous: 10, 11, 13
kinds of: 7
original hard and soft parts: 7
record, missing pages in: 5
wood: 47
fossilization, requirements of: 5
fossils—
animal: 47-107
Cambrian: 40
carbonized: 10
classification of: 21-22
cleaning: 21
etching in acid: 21
frozen: 5, 7, 104
guide and/or index: 32
in amber: 7
in oil saturated soil: 7
in quicksand: 5
in tar: 5
in volcanic ash: 5
main types of: 44
natural mummies: 7
permineralized or petrified: 10
plant: 4, 10, 20, 32, 44-48
Pleistocene: 101, 102, 103, 104
Precambrian: 40
preparation of: 21
Quaternary: 43, 101, 102, 103, 104
replaced or mineralized: 10
silicified: 21
Cretaceous: 11
Permian: 11
etching: 21
Silurian: 40, 81
Tertiary: 43
Triassic: 42
uses of: 31-32
France: 106
Franklin Mountains, Cambrian of: 40
frogs: 89
Frondicularia: 49
fungi: 44
Fusselman limestone: 40
Fusulina: 49
fusulinids: 26, 29, 47, 49
Fusus: 63
G
Gaptank formation: 35, 41
gastroliths: 14
Gastropoda: 56, 59
gastropods: 26, 27, 29, 30, 56, 59, 60
Cretaceous: 59, 62
morphology: 60
ornamentation: 59
Pennsylvanian: 61, 62
Tertiary: 59, 63, 64
generic name: 21-22
genus: 21-22
geologic—
column: 33
history: 33
map, definition: 40
map of Texas: 38-39
time: 34
time scale: frontispiece, 33
geology of Texas: 37-43
Germany: 5, 100
Gingko: 47, 48
Girtyocoelia: 50
Glasscock County: 42
Glass Mountains: 11, 12, 35, 41, 42
glauconite: 11
Globigerina: 49
Glossary: 111-114
Glycymeris: 74
Glyptodon: 101, 102
glyptodont: 101, 102
goats: 106
goniatites: 75, 76
Grand Prairie: 36, 37
Graptolithina: 84, 86
graptolites: 27, 30, 40, 84, 86
of Marathon uplift: 40, 86
Graptozoa. See graptolites.
graysonana, Gryphaea: 69
Great Flood: 3
ground sloths: 7, 101, 102
Gryphaea graysonana: 69
washitaensis: 69
Guadalupe Mountains, Peak: 35
Gulf Coast: 32
Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas: 35, 36, 37, 42, 43, 106
Gulf of Mexico: 37
Gulf series of Cretaceous: 34. See also Upper Cretaceous.
Gyrodes: 62
H
hagfish: 87
hammer, geologist’s: 17, 18
Hamulus: 78
hand lens: 17, 18
hard parts, animal—calcareous, chitinous, phosphatic, siliceous remains: 10
Hardin-Simmons University: 27
heart urchins: 82, 83
Heliospongia: 50
hematite: 11
Hemiaster: 85
Hemichordata: 84
Henderson County Junior College: 27
Herodotus: 3
Heterostegina: 32
Heteralosia hystricula: 12, 13
“het” zone: 32
Hexacoralla: 51
High Plains: 35, 36, 37, 42, 43, 89, 95, 106
hippopotamuses: 106
Holaster: 85
Holectypus: 85
Holothuroidea: 82
holothuroids: 84
sclerites: 83
119
Homo sapiens: 22
“horn corals”: 49, 51, 52
horses: 103, 104
teeth: 104
Howard County Junior College: 27
Hudspeth County: 35, 41, 42
Hueco Mountains: 41
Hughes, Jack T.: 1
hydroids: 49
Hydrozoa: 49, 84
Hyracotherium: 103, 104
hystricula, Heteralosia: 12, 13
I
ichthyosaurs: 91, 93, 95
Ichthyosaurus: 91, 93
identification keys, fossil: 26-30
use of: 23-27
igneous rocks: 5, 19
Inarticulata: 54, 56
Inoceramus: 69
insects: 7, 78, 79
in amber: 7
iron, replacement by: 11
Italy: 3
J
Jack County: 20
jellyfish: 5, 49
Jurassic—
derivation and pronunciation: 34
fossils: 42
birds: 100
dinosaurs: 90, 91, 95, 97, 98, 99
Gingko: 48
of Hudspeth County and/or Malone Mountain: 41
Juresania: 58
K
keys. See identification keys.
Kilgore College: 27
Kingena wacoensis: 56
L
labels, paper: 19
laeviscula, Exogyra: 70
Lamar State College of Technology: 1, 2, 27
lampreys: 87
Latirus: 63
Lee College: 27
Lepidodendron: 46
Levifusus: 64
Lima: 72
limonite: 11
Lingula: 55, 56
Linnaeus: 21
Linné: 21
Linoproductus: 57
lisbonensis, Ostrea: 72
liverworts: 44
lizards: 89
Llano uplift: 36, 37, 40, 41
Lonsdale, John T.: 1
lophophore, brachiopod: 54
Lophophyllidium: 49, 51, 52
proliferum: 52
radicosum: 52
Los Angeles, California: 5
Louisiana: 37
Lower Cretaceous: 34, 42, 56, 97. See also Comanchean.
lugubris, Alectryonia: 68
Lunatia: 62
lungfishes: 87
M
Macon, J. W.: 2
magnifying glass: 17, 18
Malone Mountain: 42
Mammalia: 89, 100-107
mammoths: 102, 104, 107
frozen: 7, 102
tooth: 104
woolly: 102, 104, 107
mantle, brachiopod: 54
pelecypod: 59
maps—
county: 17
geologic: 19
of Texas: 38-39
physiographic of Texas: 36
topographic: 19, 20
Marathon uplift: 35, 36, 40, 41
marcasite: 11
Marginifera: 57
opima: 12, 13
mastodon, tooth: 104
Meandrostia: 50
Mediterranean Sea: 3
mercenaria, Venus: 22
Mesalia: 63
Mesolobus: 57
Mesozoic—
derivation and pronunciation: 33
periods of: 34
rocks in Texas: 42-43
metamorphic rocks: 5, 19
Metoicoceras: 76
Michelinia: 52
Micrabacia: 49, 52
microfossils: 4, 10, 32, 47, 49, 50, 78
micropaleontological slides: 32
micropaleontologist: 32, 47, 80
micropaleontology: 4, 89
Midwestern University: 27
mine dumps: 20, 47
Mississippian—
derivation and pronunciation: 34
fossils: 41
blastoid: 81
brachiopods: 55
bryozoan: 54
of Hueco Mountains: 41
of Llano region: 41
mold, external: 9, 11, 59, 66
internal: 9, 11, 59, 62, 66
Mollusca: 56-78
mollusks: 7, 56, 59-78. See also Mollusca.
Moropus: 106
mosasaur: 91, 93, 95
“moss animals”: 54
mosses: 44
Muirwoodia multistriatus: 12, 13
multituberculates: 100
multistriatus, Muirwoodia: 12, 13
mussels: 56, 59
museums, as aid in identification: 23
American, Natural History: 2, 15, 96
Strecker: 95
Texas Memorial: 14, 87, 95, 97, 100, 102
Myalina: 67
Mylodon: 100, 101
N
Nautiloidea: 66
nautiloids: 66
Cretaceous: 76
morphology: 75
120
Pennsylvanian: 76
sutures: 75
Nautilus: 66
morphology: 75
Neithea: 70
Neospirifer: 57
cameratus: 58
Nerinea: 62
Neuropteris: 48
Neverita: 64
New Mexico: 7
New York City: 14
North-Central Plains: 35, 36, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43
north Texas: 42
North Texas State College: 27
notebook, field: 17
Notopocorystes: 79, 80
Nucula: 73
Nuculana: 67
Nuculopsis: 67
O
octopus: 66, 78
Odessa College: 27
operculum: 59
Ophiuroidea: 82
ophiuroids: 82
opima, “Marginifera”: 12, 13
order, taxonomic: 22
Ordovician—
derivation and pronunciation: 34
fossils: 40
graptolites: 86
of El Paso region, Llano, Marathon, Solitario, and Van Horn uplifts: 40
ornamentation, brachiopod: 54
gastropod: 59
pelecypod: 66
Ornithischia: 97
ornithischians: 90, 97, 98, 100
Ornithopoda: 97
ornithopods: 90, 97, 99
Orthoceras: 66, 76
Orthoyoldia: 73
ossicles. See sclerites.
Osteichthyes: 87
Ostracoda: 80
ostracoderms: 87
ostracodes: 78, 79, 80
Ostrea carinata: 71
lisbonensis: 72
quadriplicata: 71
sellaeformis: 72
Oxytropidoceras: 77
oysters: 56, 59
P
Pachecoa: 72
Pachymya: 71
paleobotany: 4
paleobotanists: 44
paleontology—
definition: 4
divisions of: 4
history of: 3
invertebrate: 4
vertebrate: 4
Paleoscincus: 90, 97, 99, 100
Paleozoic—
derivation and pronunciation: 33
periods of: 34
rocks of Texas: 40-42
Palo Pinto County: 20
Paluxy Creek: 14, 15
Pan American College: 27
Pantodonta: 102
pantodonts: 102
Parasaurolophus: 90
Parasmilia: 53
Parker County: 20
Pawpaw formation: 11
pearly nautilus: 66
morphology: 75
Pecos County: 42
Pecos River valley: 35
Pecten: 59, 68, 74
pedicle: 54, 56
foramen: 54, 56
valve, brachiopod: 54
Pelycosaurs: 89, 92
Pelecypoda: 56, 59, 65-66
pelecypods: 26, 29, 30, 56, 59, 60, 66
Cretaceous: 59, 66, 68-71
dentition: 66
morphology: 59, 60, 65, 66
ornamentation: 66
Pennsylvanian: 66, 67
teeth: 60, 65, 66
Tertiary: 72, 73, 74
Pelmatozoa: 80, 81
Pennsylvanian—
derivation and pronunciation: 34
fossils: 41
brachiopods: 57, 58
bryozoans: 55
cephalopods: 66, 76
corals: 52
crinoids: 41, 82, 83
fusulinids: 47, 49
gastropods: 61, 62
nautiloids: 76
pelecypods: 66, 67
plants: 46, 47, 48
shark teeth: 87
sponges: 50
of Diablo and Hueco Mountains, Llano and Marathon uplifts, and north-central Texas: 41
Pentaceros: 83
Pentagonaster: 83
Pentremites: 81
period, geologic: 33
periostracum: 60
Perissodactyla: 104
perissodactyls: 103, 104, 105
Permian—
derivation and pronunciation: 34
fossils: 41
amphibian: 89, 92
brachiopods: 12, 13
cotylosaurs: 89, 92
pelycosaurs: 89, 92
of Glass Mountains: 11, 12, 35
permiana, Prorichthofenia: 12, 13
permineralized bone: 9
petroleum geologist: 4
Phaneroceras: 76
Phobosuchus: 95, 96
Pholadomya: 71, 72
phyla: 22
Phyllograptus: 86
phylum: 22
physiographic provinces, of Texas: 35-37
physiography, definition: 35
of Texas: 35-37
121
phytosaurs: 42, 91, 94, 95
pick, mineralogist’s or prospector’s: 17, 18
pigs: 106
Pinna: 67
Pisces: 86-89
Pitar: 72
Placodermi: 87
placoderms: 87, 88
plant kingdom: 44
plants, classification: 44
Pennsylvanian: 46, 47, 48
Platyceras: 62
Pleistocene: 43. See also Quaternary.
fossils: 101, 102, 103, 104
plesiosaurs: 91, 93, 95
Pleurocora: 53
Plicatula: 68, 74
Pliohippus: 103
Poland: 7, 106
pollen: 47
polyp, coral: 49
Polypora: 55
ponderosa, Exogyra: 70
Porifera: 49
Porodiscus: 49
portland cement: 19
Precambrian—
definition: 34
fossils: 40
of El Paso region: 40
of Llano uplift: 37, 40
of Van Horn uplift: 40
rocks of Texas: 40
Presidio County: 35
Proboscidea: 102
proboscideans: 102, 104, 107
teeth: 104
proliferum, Lophophyllidium: 52
Prorichthofenia permiana: 12, 13
Proterozoic, derivation and pronunciation: 33
Protista: 47
Protocardia: 68
Protoceratops: 90
Protozoa: 47, 49
protozoans: 47
pseudofossils: 14
Pseudoliva: 63
Psilophyton: 48
Pteranodon: 91, 94
Pterodactyloids: 91
pterosaurs: 91, 94, 95
Punctospirifer: 57
pyrite: 11
“Pyrite Fossil Zone” of Cretaceous: 11
Q
quadriplicata, Ostrea: 71
quarries: 19
Quaternary—
derivation and pronunciation: 34
fossils: 43, 101, 102, 103, 104
of Edwards Plateau, Gulf Coast, High Plains, North-Central Plains, and Trans-Pecos Texas: 43
quicksand: 5
R
radicosum, Lophophyllidium: 53
Radiolaria: 47
radiolarians: 47, 49
Rancho La Brea tar pit: 5
rays: 87
Reagan County: 42
Receptaculites: 50
Renaissance: 3
Reptilia: 89-100
reptiles: 89-100
rhamphorhynchoids: 91
Rhamphorhynchus: 91, 94
rhinoceroses: 7, 104, 106, 107
woolly: 106, 107
Rhipodomella: 55
Rhombopora: 51, 55
Rice University: 27
Rio Grande valley, of Trans-Pecos: 35, 95
road metal: 19
Robulus: 49
Rock and Mineral Clubs: 23
rock units: 34
rockymontanus, Spirifer: 58
Rodda, Peter U.: 1
rudistids: 26, 27, 28, 29, 30
Rugosa: 51
S
saber-tooth cat: 102, 103
St. Mary’s University: 27
salamanders: 89
Salenia: 85
San Angelo College: 27
San Antonio College: 27
sand dollars: 82
sapiens, Homo: 22
Sarcodina: 47
Saurischia: 97
saurischians: 90, 97, 99
Sauropoda: 97
sauropods: 90, 97, 98
scale trees: 46, 47
scallops: 56, 59
Scaphopoda: 56
scaphopods: 26, 27, 28, 29, 56
Schizodus: 67
scientific names: 21-23
Scleractinia: 51
sclerites, holothurian: 83, 84
scolecodont: 78
scouring rushes: 47, 48
Scyphozoa: 49, 84
sea anemones: 49
sea cucumbers: 82
“sea lily”: 81, 82
“sea mats”: 51, 54
“sea-mice”: 56
sea urchins: 82
sedimentary rocks: 5, 19
sellaeformis, Ostrea: 72
septa, cephalopods: 66, 75
corals: 49, 51
serpent stars: 82
Serpula: 78
Seymouria: 92
sharks: 87
teeth: 10, 87, 88
sheep: 106
shrimp: 78
Siberia: 7, 106
Sigillaria: 46
signata, Avonia: 12, 13
silica: 10, 11
silicification: 11
Silurian—
derivation and pronunciation: 34
fossils: 40
cystoid: 81
of El Paso and Van Horn regions: 40
122
skates: 87
slickensides: 16
slugs: 56
Smith, Fred: 1
snails: 11, 56, 59. See also gastropods.
snakes: 89
Solitario uplift: 40
Somervell County: 14, 15
South America: 87, 102
Southern Methodist University: 27
South Texas College: 27
Southwestern University: 27
species: 22
spicules, sponge: 49, 50
spiders: 78
spines, echinoid: 84, 85
Spirifer rockymontanus: 58
Spirorbis: 78
sponges: 10, 27, 30, 49, 50
spores: 47
Squamularia: 57
squid: 66, 78
starfish: 82, 83
Stegosaurus: 90, 97, 99
stegosaurs: 90, 97, 99
steinkern: 59, 62
stems, crinoid: 26, 28, 41, 81, 82, 83
Stephen F. Austin State College: 27
“stomach stones”: 14
stone, building: 19
Strabo: 3
Straparolus: 61
Strecker Museum: 95
Striatopora: 51, 52
Strobeus: 62
Styracosaurus: 90
subhorrida, Avonia: 12, 13
subtilita, Composita: 57
Sul Ross State College: 27
Surcula: 64
sutures, cephalopod: 66, 75, 78
nautiloid: 75
swine, giant: 106
Sycostoma: 64
symmetry: 23
bilateral: 24, 26, 29
radial: 24, 26, 28, 80
T
tabulae: 51
Tabulata: 51
tape, masking: 19
tapirs: 104
tar: 5
Tarleton State College: 27
Tarrant County: 11
taxonomy: 21-22
teeth, horse: 104
mammoth: 104
shark: 10, 87, 88
Tellina: 73
Tertiary—
derivation and pronunciation: 34
fossils: 43
corals: 53
gastropods: 59, 63, 64
mammals: 100-107, 103, 105
microfossils: 32
pelecypods: 72, 73, 74
radiolarians: 49
rocks of Gulf Coastal Plain, High Plains, North-Central Plains, and Trans-Pecos region: 42
Tetracoralla: 51
Tetrapoda: 86, 89-107
texana, Exogyra: 70
Texanites: 77
Texas A. & M. College: 1, 27
Texas Christian University: 27
Texas College: 27
Texas College of Arts and Industries: 27
Texas Highway Department: 17
Texas Memorial Museum: 14, 87, 95, 97, 100, 102
Texas Technological College: 27
Texas, the geology of: 34, 37-43
Texas Western College: 27
Thallophyta: 43, 46
Theophrastus: 3
Therapsids: 89
Theria: 100
therians: 100-107
artiodactyls: 101, 106
carnivores: 102, 103
dinocerates: 102, 105
edentates: 100, 101, 102
pantodonts: 102
perissodactyls: 104
proboscideans: 102, 104, 107
Theropoda: 97
theropods: 90, 97, 98
The University of Texas: 1, 2, 27
time, geologic: 34
titanotheres: 104, 105, 106
toads: 89
tortoises: 89
traces of organisms: 14
burrows: 14
coprolites: 14
gastroliths: 14
tracks: 14, 15
trails: 14
Tracheophyta: 44, 46, 48
Trachodon: 90, 97, 99
tracks, dinosaur: 14, 15, 97
Trans-Pecos region: 35, 36, 40, 42, 43, 86, 95, 102, 106
tree sloths: 100, 102
trees, coniferous: 7
Trepospira: 61
Triassic—
derivation and pronunciation: 34
fossils: 42
dinosaurs: 95
phytosaurs: 91, 94, 95
of Crockett, Glasscock, Pecos, Reagan, and Upton counties; Glass Mountains and High Plains: 42
Triceratops: 90, 99, 100
Trigonia: 69
Trilobita: 78
trilobites: 78, 80
morphology: 80
Trilobitomorpha: 78
Trinacromerum: 91
Trinity University: 27
trivial name: 21-22
Trochosmilia: 53
Tuba: 64
tuberculatus, Aulosteges: 12, 13
Turrilites: 77
worthensis: 22
123
Turritella: 62, 63
turtles: 89, 91
tusk-shells: 56
Tyler Junior College: 27
Tylosaurus: 91, 93
Tylostoma: 62
Tyrannosaurus: 90, 97
U
uintatheres: 102, 105
Uintatherium: 102, 105
umbilicus: 59, 60
United States Geological Survey: 19
United States National Museum: 2, 12
University of Corpus Christi: 27
University of Houston: 1, 27
University of Texas, The: 1, 2, 27
Upper Cretaceous: 34, 42, 78. See also Gulf.
Upton County: 42
V
valves, brachiopod: 54, 56
pelecypod: 59, 65, 66
Van Horn uplift: 35, 36, 40, 41
Venericardia: 73
bulla: 72
ventral valve, brachiopod: 54
Venus mercenaria: 22
Vertagus: 63
Vertebrata: 84, 86-107
vertebrates: 86-107
amphibians: 89, 92
birds: 100
fish: 87, 88, 89
mammals: 100-107
reptiles: 89-100
Vokesula: 73
volcanic ash: 5
Volutolithes: 64
W
Waco: 91, 92, 95
wacoensis, Kingena: 56
Washington, D. C.: 19
washitaensis, Gryphaea: 69
Weches formation: 43
West Texas State College: 1, 27
Wilson, John A.: 2
Wilson, Sarah Louise: 2
Wise County: 20
wood, petrified: 19
Woodbine: 10, 37, 47
worms, annelid, fossil, segmented: 78
worm tubes, Cretaceous: 9
Worthenia: 61
worthensis, Turrilites: 22
Y
Yoldia: 67
Young County: 20
Young, Keith: 1
Z
Zoantharia: 51
zooecia: 51