Locality KO (Upper San Angelo Fm.) (Permian to of the United States)

Also known as Little Croton Creek; MacFayden Ranch; JR Pasture

Where: Knox County, Texas (33.5° N, 100.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.5° N, 29.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Flowerpot Shale Member (San Angelo Formation), Kungurian to Kungurian (279.3 - 268.8 Ma)

• The upper San Angelo Fm. and basal Flowerpot Fm. of Olson (1962) are widely identical to the Flowerpot Shale Member of the upper San Angelo Fm. (see Smith, 1974, University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations No. 80)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green, white siltstone

• for details see Olson (1962 p. 111)

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the FMNH

Primary reference: E. C. Olson. 1962. Late Permian terrestrial vertebrates, U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 52(2):1-224 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80717: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Jana Dummasch on 06.05.2008

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Tupilakosauridae
Slaugenhopia texensis Olson 1962 tetrapod
CNHM UR 155 (= indeterminate labyrinthodont of Olson & Beerbower, 1953)