Texas Fossils: An Amateur Collector's Handbook

by William Henry Matthews

This valuable reference guide contains many references to Texas fossils. Note especially entries under Paleontology in the index.

Heuer, Edward (1958) Comments on the nomenclature revision of the Strawn and Canyon megafossil plates, in A guide to the Strawn and Canyon [Series] of the [Pennsylvanian] [System] in Palo Pinto County, Texas, An Occasional Publication of the North Texas Geological Society, Wichita Falls, Texas.

Contains illustrations and latest name changes of many of the more common [Pennsylvanian] fossils of north Texas.

*King, R. E. (1930) Geology of the Glass Mountains, Part II, Faunal summary and [correlation] of the [Permian] formations with description of Brachiopoda: Univ. Texas Bull. 3042.

Contains descriptions and illustrations of numerous brachiopods from the Glass Mountains of Trans-Pecos Texas.

*Lee, Wallace, et al. (1939) Stratigraphic and paleontologic studies of the [Pennsylvanian] and [Permian] rocks of north-central Texas: Univ. Texas Pub. 3801.

Contains an extensive faunal list and important collecting localities for [Pennsylvanian] invertebrates.

*Moore, R. C., and Jeffords, R. M. (1944) Description of lower [Pennsylvanian] corals from Texas and adjacent states: Univ. Texas Pub. 4401, pp. 77-208.

Describes and illustrates many of the more common [Pennsylvanian] corals.

*Plummer, F. B. (1943) The Carboniferous rocks of the Llano region of central Texas: Univ. Texas Pub. 4329.