Also known as Tit Butte and S.W. Butte
Where: Baylor County, Texas (33.7° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.5° N, 29.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Maybelle limestone Member (Lueders Formation), Artinskian to Artinskian (290.1 - 272.3 Ma)
• 2 to 3 feet below the Aa2 submember of the Maybelle limestone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified, graded grainstone and lithified mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: surface (in situ), acetic,
Primary reference: D. S. Berman. 1970. Vertebrate Fossils from the Lueders Formation, Lower Permian of North-Central Texas. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 86:1-61 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85299: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 11.12.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Eocaptorhinus sp." = Captorhinus
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"Lysorophus cf. tricarinatus" = Brachydectes newberryi
"Lysorophus cf. tricarinatus" = Brachydectes newberryi Cope 1868 amniote UCLA VP 1972, vertebrae, amount not specified
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Dimetrodon sp. Cope 1878 synapsid UCLA VP 1979, 1980 (pelvic elements) + several neural spines (no specimen number given)
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Diplocaulus sp. Cope 1877 tetrapod UCLA VP 1970, vertebrae and fragments of dermal bone, amount not specified
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Spermatodus pustulosus Cope 1894 lobe-finned fish UCLA VP 1967, "plentiful" skull elements, mainly basisphenoids
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Gnathorhiza sp. Cope 1883 lungfish UCLA VP 1968 several tooth plates, vomerine teeth and mandibles, amount not specified
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"Xenacanthus luedersensis n. sp." = Barbclabornia luedersensis
"Xenacanthus luedersensis n. sp." = Barbclabornia luedersensis Berman 1970 elasmobranch UCLA VP 1960, teeth, amount not specified; UCLA VP 1961 (type), one complete tooth
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