Fulda is a fossil collection site in Baylor, Texas, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Belle Plains Formation, dated to the Sakmarian to Kungurian (293.52–274.4 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as terrestrial indet. Documented finds include Gigantopteris, Annularia, Araucarites, Aspidiopsis, Cordaites, Diplothmema.

Geologic setting

Formation: Belle Plains
Geologic interval: Sakmarian to Kungurian
Age: 293.52–274.4 Ma
Depositional environment: terrestrial indet.
Recorded occurrences: 22

Locality notes

The bank of the stream at the crossing of the old road, one fourth mile south of the ford of Little Wichita River, 4 miles southeast of Fulda, a station in Baylor County.

Fossils found here

Gigantopteris

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · Gigantopteridaceae

Annularia

Polypodiopsida · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Araucarites

Equisetopsida · Araucariaceae

Aspidiopsis

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · Lepidodendraceae

Cordaites

Pinopsida · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Diplothmema

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Gomphostrobus

Pinopsida · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Neuropteris

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · Medullosaceae

Odontopteris

Peltaspermopsida · Peltaspermaceae

Pecopteris

Pteropsida · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Poacordaites

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Taeniopteris

Cycadopsida · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Sphenophyllum

Equisetopsida · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Sigillaria

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · Sigillariaceae

Walchia

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Aphlebia

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Callipteris

Peltaspermopsida · Peltaspermaceae

Daubreeia

Cycadopsida · Neuropteridae

Lebachia

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Lepidophyllum

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Parioxys ferricolus

Amphibia · Dissorophidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 11152 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Questions about Fulda

Can you collect at Fulda?

It depends on who owns the land and whether a mining claim covers it. BLM land usually allows hand collecting for personal use, national parks allow none, and private land needs the owner’s permission. Pro members see the owner and any claims at this spot.

What minerals are found at Fulda?

Fossil.

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Meteorite nearbyA 12 g iron meteorite was found at Holliday in 1950, 10 miles from here.

Source: Paleobiology Database.