(Dinosaurs in Texas
People have discovered the fossils of 21 different dinosaurs in Texas! These dinosaurs fall into three groups or "batches" in terms of geologic time. No one knows what colors dinosaurs were. This picture is just one artist's guess! What do you think?
Batch 1:
Triassic
Age: about 225 - 220 million years
ago
Found:
Texas Panhandle
Batch 2:
Early Cretaceous
Age: about 119 - 95 million years
ago
Found:
Central Texas
4 Acrocanthosaurus
5 Pleurocoelus
6 Tenontosaurus
7 Iguanodon
8 Deinonychus
* Proctor Lake hypsilophodont
* Pawpawsaurus
* Protohadros
Batch 3:
Upper Cretaceous
Age: about 75 - 65 million years
ago
Found:
Big Bend Region
9 Alamosaurus
10 Tyrannosaurus
11 Chasmosaurus
12 Torosaurus
13 Edmontosaurus
14 Kitrosaurus
15 Ornithomimus
16 Stegocerus
17 Panoplosaurus
* Euoplocephalus
* These dinosaurs were found after 1995 and are not in this drawing. There is very little evidence of Jurassic dinosaurs in Texas.
Non-Dinosaur prehistoric animals:
Archaeopteryx
Dimetrodon
Edsphosaurus
Mammoth
Mosasaur
Quetzalcoatius
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, 4200 Smith School Road, Austin, TX 78744