Also known as "Godlin Creek", Locality XI of Case, 1907
Where: Archer County, Texas (33.6° N, 98.9° W: paleocoordinates 0.0° N, 29.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Nocona Formation (Wichita Group), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)
• Specimens come from a single conglomerate bed sandwiched between a sandstone above and claystone below. "Case's specimens of A. casei may be assigned then, to the upper Admiral of the Wichita group, Lower Permian of Texas." (Vaughn, 1955 p. 309).
•Lower Permian stratigraphy for Texas was modified by Hentz (1988)
•the Admiral Formation is early Artinskian according to Wardlaw 2005, Permophiles (JA)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. C. Case in 1906; reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: E. C. Case. 1907. Description of the Skull of Bolosaurus striatus Cope. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 23:653-658 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13044: authorized by Chris Sidor, entered by Chris Sidor on 17.01.2002, edited by Torsten Liebrecht
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Ophiodeirus casei n. gen. n. sp." = Araeoscelis casei
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