Also known as Locality 12 (Romer 1928), Locality IVf (Romer & Price 1940), Mt. Barry, faunal Zone 1, Wichita Group, Texas red-beds, redbeds

Where: Wichita County, Texas (33.8° N, 98.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 29.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Admiral Formation (Wichita Group), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• Details for Faunal Zone 1 of Romer 1928: "These beds [estimated 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

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 28142: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 25.01.2003, edited by Torsten Liebrecht

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