Also known as Locality 10 (Romer 1928), Locality Vg (Romer & Price 1940), faunal Zone 1, Wichita Group, Texas red-beds, redbeds
Where: Archer County, Texas (33.6° N, 98.6° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° S, 29.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Admiral Formation (Wichita Group), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)
• This locality is "about 50 feet above the Coleman Junction." Details for Faunal Zone 1 of Romer 1928: "These beds [estimated thickness of 350 feet] occupy the middle portion of the Wichita as Cummins conceived of it; but they are now seen to occupy the lower part of this group. This zone is approximately equivalent to the Admiral Formation of Plummer and Moore (1921), although no definite correlation can be made at present." Lower Permian stratigraphy for Texas was modified by Hentz (1988).
•the Admiral Formation is entirely Artinskian according to Wardlaw 2005, Permophiles (JA)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red, argillaceous, sandy shale
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•terrestrial and near-shore deposition
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Romer (1928) paper is a review of vertebrates from the Texas red-beds with previously unreported (or undetailed) localities.
Primary reference: A. S. Romer. 1928. Vertebrate faunal horizons in the Texas Permo-Carboniferous red beds. University of Texas Bulletin 2801:67-108 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/W. Clyde]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 28141: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 25.01.2003, edited by Torsten Liebrecht
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Cricotus sp. Cope 1875 tetrapod | |
Edaphosaurus sp. Cope 1882 synapsid | |
Dimetrodon sp. Cope 1878 synapsid | |
Ophiacodon retroversus Cope 1878 ophiacodont | |
Amphibia | |
Eryops sp. Cope 1877 tetrapod | |
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