Where: Baylor County, Texas (33.6° N, 99.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° N, 28.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Vale Formation (Clear Fork Group), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• Lower part of the Vale Formation, about 100 feet above base. Lower Permian (Leonardian). 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; sandstone and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
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 177019: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 16.03.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Eryops megacephalus Cope 1877 tetrapod | |
Trimerorhachis insignis Cope 1878 tetrapod | |
Diplocaulus magnicornis Cope 1882 tetrapod | |
Osteichthyes | |
"Dimetrodon gigashomogenes" = Dimetrodon giganhomogenes
"Dimetrodon gigashomogenes" = Dimetrodon giganhomogenes Case 1907 synapsid | |
Reptilia | |
"Labidosaurikos barkeri" = Labidosaurikos meachami
"Labidosaurikos barkeri" = Labidosaurikos meachami Stovall 1950 eureptile |