"Copper Shept" (Permian to of the United States)

Also known as ?Mitchell Creek

Where: Baylor County, Texas (33.7° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.4° N, 29.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Artinskian to Artinskian (290.1 - 272.3 Ma)

• Chronostratigraphy originally entered as >> Permian << .

•New stratigraphic data are uncertain and based on the assumption that the fossil comes from the Mitchell Creek area (see comments on geography) from a locality which is either in the upper Wichita or the lower Clear Fork Group. (TL)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• none given

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. Boll in 1880; reposited in the AMNH

• "collected in 1880 by Cope's collector Jacob Boll"

Primary reference: R. Broom. 1930. On a new primitive theromorph (Eumatthevia bolli). American Museum Novitates 446:1-4 [C. Sidor/C. Sidor/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 71671: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.05.2007

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Synapsida - Varanopidae
"Eumatthevia bolli n. gen. n. sp." = Mycterosaurus longiceps
"Eumatthevia bolli n. gen. n. sp." = Mycterosaurus longiceps Williston 1915 synapsid
AMNH 7002 (type)