Where: Knox County, Texas (33.7° N, 99.6° W: paleocoordinates 2.4° N, 29.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: "Bullwagon" Member (Vale Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• "Robert Roth, of the Humble Oil and Refining Company of Wichita Falls, Texas, believes that surfacer and subsurface data show that the beds in question are part of the 'Bullwagon' member of the Vale formation. This places the section high in the Vale, just below the Choza." Olson (1948 p. 190);
•the base and top of the Clear Fork Group (i.e., Arroyo, Vale, and Choza formations) are both within the Kungurian: see Wardlaw 2005 (Permophiles) for the base, and DiMichele et al. 2001 (J Paleont) for the top
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: dry floodplain; pebbly, green, red conglomerate and lenticular siltstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by E. C. Olson, E. L. Yochelson, S. H. Mamay in 1946-1948, 1955
• Olson (1958) divided the main locality into Quarry Site and Weathered Boulder Site, leaving the main one for recording scattered finds
Primary reference: E. C. Olson. 1958. Fauna of the Vale and Choza: Summary, Review, and Integration of the Geology and the Faunas. Fieldiana Geology 10(32):397-448 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 177014: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 16.03.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Gnathorhiza dikeloda Olson 1951 lungfish | |
"Dimetrodon gigashomogenes" = Dimetrodon giganhomogenes
"Dimetrodon gigashomogenes" = Dimetrodon giganhomogenes Case 1907 synapsid | |
Amphibia | |
Diplocaulus recurvatus Olson 1952 tetrapod |