Also known as Locality 17 (Romer 1928), Wooderum's pasture, faunal Zone 2, Middle Wichita Group, Texas red-beds, redbeds
Where: Baylor County, Texas (33.7° N, 98.9° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° N, 29.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Belle Plains Formation (Wichita Group), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)
• "about 350 beet above the base of the Wichita." Details for Faunal Zone 2 of Romer 1928: "Beyond the horizon of Godwin Creek is found a series of beds about 200 feet in thickness, of a transitional character, in which thin and impure limestones are occasionally present."
•the base of the Artinskian is just above Coleman Junction Formation (Wardlaw 2005, Permophiles), and the "Belle Plains" = Petrolia Formation is below the Waggoner Ranch Formation, which is well above the Coleman Junction and whose base equals the base of the Bead Mountain Formation (Tabor et al. 2002), which is in the middle of the Artinskian (Wardlaw 2005)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red claystone and limestone
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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: E. C. Case. 1910. New or little known reptiles and amphibians from the Permian (?) of Texas. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 28:163-181 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 28143: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 25.01.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
"Trimerorhachis alleni n. sp." = Trimerorhachis insignis
"Trimerorhachis alleni n. sp." = Trimerorhachis insignis Cope 1878 tetrapod | |
Aspidosaurus glascocki n. sp.
Aspidosaurus glascocki n. sp. Case 1910 tetrapod | |
Eryops sp. Cope 1877 tetrapod | |
Osteichthyes | |
Diadectes sp. Cope 1878 tetrapod | |
Dimetrodon sp. Cope 1878 synapsid |