Archer City Bonebed 3 (Permian of the United States)

Also known as ETE Locality 1509, Archer City Bonebed 3,

Where: Texas (33.3° N, 98.4° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 28.8° W)

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Archer City Formation (Wichita Group), Wolfcampian (298.9 - 286.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: . radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min

•originally entered as Asselian to Olenekian

Environment/lithology: "channel"; gray mudstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: ab_chan_fill ETE event: ., ETE env comment: .
• ETE rock type adj: "gray,blocky", ETE lithology comments: .

Collection methods: ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: P. M. Sander. 1989. Early Permian Depositional Environments of Pond Bonebeds in Central Archer County, Texas. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 69:1-21 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22635: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 27.03.2001

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Ectosterohachis nitidus
Chondrichthyes
 Xenacanthida - Orthacanthidae
Orthacanthus texensis
Orthacanthus texensis Cope 1888 elasmobranch
Osteichthyes
 Paleonisciformes -
Paleonisciformes indet.
Paleonisciformes indet.
ETE occurrence; species: Paleoniscoids, mak- genus name from order name
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Eryopidae
Eryops megacephalus
Eryops megacephalus Cope 1877 tetrapod
Osteichthyes
 Synapsida - Edaphosauridae
Edaphosaurus boanerges
Edaphosaurus boanerges Romer and Price 1940 synapsid
 Cotylosauria -
Archeria crassidisca
Archeria crassidisca Cope 1884 tetrapod