Middle Fork of the Little Wichita, 10 (Admiral Formation) (Permian of the United States)

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

• terrestrial and near-shore deposition
• red-beds, "a series of typical red beds, consisting of clays, sandstone and shales, mostly red in color, and devoid of limestones."

•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

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Embolomera - Archeriidae
Cricotus sp. Cope 1875 tetrapod
 Synapsida - Edaphosauridae
Edaphosaurus sp. Cope 1882 synapsid
 Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae
Dimetrodon sp. Cope 1878 synapsid
 Synapsida - Ophiacodontidae
Ophiacodon retroversus Cope 1878 ophiacodont
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Eryopidae
Eryops sp. Cope 1877 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Trimerorhachidae
Trimerorhachis sp. Cope 1878 tetrapod
entered as "Trimerorachis"