Also known as Trinity River West Fork, Archer County
Where: Archer County, Texas (33.5° N, 98.5° W: paleocoordinates 3.4° S, 31.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Wichita Group, Asselian to Asselian (298.9 - 290.1 Ma)
• "Near Pueblo-Moran Boundary"
•Stratography determined using Wellstead (1991)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Romer in 1948; reposited in the MCZ
Primary reference: R. L. Carroll. 1964. Early evolution of the dissorophid amphibians. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 131:161-250 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 180393: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 15.07.2016, edited by Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Brevidorsum profundum n. gen. n. sp., Reiszerpeton renascentis n. gen. n. sp.
Brevidorsum profundum n. gen. n. sp. Carroll 1964 tetrapod MCZ 3250 (Holotype: partial skull and postcranial material including fragments of both scapulae and cleithra, portions of both humeri, left femur, left tibia, and fibula, one or more vertebrae with attached ribs.)
Reiszerpeton renascentis n. gen. n. sp. Maddin et al. 2013 tetrapod MCZ 1911 (Holotype: nearly complete skull with articulated lower jaw)
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