Terrapin School, Archer County (Permian of the United States)

Where: Archer County, Texas (33.4° N, 98.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° N, 29.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Archer City Formation (Bowie Group), Wolfcampian (298.9 - 286.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. S. Romer Party 1954; reposited in the MCZ

Primary reference: J. N. Chase. 1965. Neldasaurus wrightae, a new rhachitomous labyrinthodont from the Texas Lower Permian. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 133:153-225 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176438: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 12.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Neldasaurus wrightae n. gen. n. sp.
Neldasaurus wrightae n. gen. n. sp. Chase 1965 tetrapod
MCZ 2200 (holotype; nearly complete skull)
 Temnospondyli - Edopidae
Edops craigi Romer 1936 tetrapod
MCZ 1781 (humerus)