Where: Clay County County, Texas (33.5° N, 98.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.7° S, 29.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Markley Formation (Bowie Group), Virgilian to Virgilian (303.4 - 298.9 Ma)
• Location at Vigilian/Wolfcampian boundary
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Reposited in the UNSM
Primary reference: R. W. Hook. 1993. Chenoprosopus lewisi, a new cochleosaurid amphibian (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Permo-Carboniferous of north-central Texas. Annals of Carnegie Museum 62:273-291 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176499: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 15.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Chenoprosopus lewisi n. sp." = Chenoprosopus milleri
"Chenoprosopus lewisi n. sp." = Chenoprosopus milleri Mehl 1913 tetrapod USNM 437646 (skull and associated postcranial elements). Reisz et al. (2005) argued that all allegedly diagnostic features of C. lewisi were found in subadult C. milneri specimens.
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