Also known as Locality 14 (Romer 1928), Locality IVe (Romer & Price 1940), Southeast side of Godwin creek, faunal Zone 1, Wichita Group, Texas red-beds, redbeds

Where: Archer County, Texas (33.6° N, 98.9° W: paleocoordinates 0.0° N, 29.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "The horizon is about 250-300 feet above the base of the formation." 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

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the AMNH, FMNH, MCZ

• 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 28150: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 25.01.2003, edited by Torsten Liebrecht and Emma Dunne

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