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
- 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
ddt">gastropods: 59, 62 nautiloids: 76 pelecypods: 59, 66, 68-71 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: 10
- petrifaction: 10
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- K
- keys. See 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, 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:
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