First Jurassic vertebrate fossils Found in the state
AUSTIN, Texas — The College of Texas at Austin stumbled over an extraordinary fossil disclosure, the first of its sort in the state, as a matter of fact. Researchers tracked down bone pieces of a Jurassic vertebrate ocean animal, adding to Texas' fossil record.
In the college's ownership are the spine and appendages of a plesiosaur, a marine reptile that has been terminated for around 150 million years. They say it once occupied the shallow waters that covered what is currently northeastern Mexico and far western Texas.
In the wake of realizing there were no Jurassic bones in Texas' fossil record in 2015, Steve May, an exploration partner at UT Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences Gallery of Earth History, was roused to make his very own revelation.
Claude Albritton's 1938 paper on the Malone Mountains' topography warned May and his group. The piece of information drove the way for his group to reveal the sections during two fossil hunting campaigns there.
Since the state's outcrops during prehistoric times were interesting, Texas' geographic history makes it more difficult to find Jurassic fossils. The majority of these rocks were discovered in the Malone Mountains, where, according to UT, Jurassic-matured rocks are predicted to find Jurassic-matured fossils.
Only marine spineless species from the Jurassic era have previously been discovered in Texas outcrops. May claims that this most recent discovery provides evidence that there are more Jurassic fossils in the state. It makes sense that geologists would start advancing knowledge after this admission. It provides access for those who want to learn the truth about Texas' long history.
