Locality BR (Lower Vale Fm.) (Permian of the United States)

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

• "Irregularly distributed sandstone, silts, red shales, and fine conglomerates. A few poorly developed channel deposits. Deposition mainly on flood plains lateral to principal stream channels. Some pond deposits of red shale." (Olson, 1958)

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
 Temnospondyli - Eryopidae
Eryops megacephalus Cope 1877 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Trimerorhachidae
Trimerorhachis insignis Cope 1878 tetrapod
 Nectridea - Diplocaulidae
Diplocaulus magnicornis Cope 1882 tetrapod
Osteichthyes
 Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae
"Dimetrodon gigashomogenes" = Dimetrodon giganhomogenes
"Dimetrodon gigashomogenes" = Dimetrodon giganhomogenes Case 1907 synapsid
Reptilia
 Eureptilia - Captorhinidae
"Labidosaurikos barkeri" = Labidosaurikos meachami
"Labidosaurikos barkeri" = Labidosaurikos meachami Stovall 1950 eureptile