A team led by scientists from The University of Texas at Austin has unveiled the first-ever Jurassic vertebrate fossils discovered in Texas, filling a significant gap in the state's fossil history. These ancient bone remnants, found to be from the extremities and spine of a plesiosaur, offer a gl
vertebrate fossils discovered in Texas, filling a significant gap in the state’s fossil history.
Before the discovery, the only fossils from the Jurassic that had been collected and described from outcrops in Texas were from marine, such as ammonites and snails. May said that the new fossil finds serve as solid proof that Jurassic bones are here.out there,” May said. “We found some of them, but there’s more to be discovered that can tell us the story of what this part of Texas was like during the Jurassic.
In 2015, when May learned while researching a book that there were no Jurassic bones in the Texas fossil record, he decided to go to the Malone Mountains to explore. The clue was a mention of large bone fragments in a 1938 paper on the geology of the Malone Mountains by Claude Albritton, who later became a geology professor at Southern Methodist University . It was enough of a lead to get May and his collaborators out to West Texas to see for themselves. Large bone fragments are what they found. The plesiosaur fossils are eroded and broken up.
Today, the Malone Mountains rise above the dry desert landscape. During the Jurassic, the sediments were deposited just below sea level probably within miles of the shoreline.
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