Also known as (Admiral Formation) Locality 13 (Romer 1928), Locality IVd (Romer & Price 1940), faunal Zone 1, Wichita Group, Texas red-beds, redbeds; Brier Creek
Where: Archer County, Texas (33.6° N, 98.9° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 29.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Admiral Formation (Wichita Group), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)
• "about 190 feet above the Coleman Junction." Details for Faunal Zone 1 of Romer 1928: "These beds [estimated thickness of 350 feet] occupy the middle portion of the Wichita as Cummins conceived of it; but they are now seen to occupy the lower part of this group. This zone is approximately equivalent to the Admiral Formation of Plummer and Moore (1921), although no definite correlation can be made at present." Lower Permian stratigraphy for Texas was modified by Hentz (1988).
•the Admiral Formation and middle Wichita Group are both Artinskian according to Wardlaw 2005, Permophiles (JA)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red claystone and red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Romer (1928) paper is a review of vertebrates from the Texas red-beds with previously unreported (or undetailed) localities.
Primary reference: A. S. Romer. 1928. Vertebrate faunal horizons in the Texas Permo-Carboniferous red beds. University of Texas Bulletin 2801:67-108 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/W. Clyde]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 13080: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 18.01.2002, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Emma Dunne and Richard Butler
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Eryops sp. Cope 1877 tetrapod | |
Aspidosaurus sp. Broili 1904 tetrapod | |
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Zatrachys serratus Cope 1878 tetrapod this specimen apparently assigned "neotype" as the type (Loc. 9) is lost (Romer 1928).
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Diplocaulus sp. Cope 1877 tetrapod | |
Osteichthyes | |
"Archeria robinsoni n. gen. n. sp." = Archeria crassidisca
"Archeria robinsoni n. gen. n. sp." = Archeria crassidisca Cope 1884 tetrapod Authority is not Romer 1928.
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Diadectes sp. Cope 1878 tetrapod | |
"Theropleura sp." = Ophiacodon Marsh 1878 ophiacodont
Ophiacodon uniformis3 Cope 1878 ophiacodont UMMP 3352, 3360, 3361, 3366, 3423, 3428; FMNH (WM) 130, 143, 249, 547, 548, 840; MCZ 1291, 1292; specimens are deducted from the original 25 specimens of Theropleura sp.
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Edaphosaurus sp. Cope 1882 synapsid | |
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Reptilia | |
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Osteichthyes | |
Cricotus sp. Cope 1875 tetrapod |