Also known as Locality 11 (Romer 1928), S. of Holliday, Head of Long Creek, faunal Zone 1, Wichita Group, Texas red-beds, redbeds
Where: Archer 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)
• "This region would be about 70 feet above the base of the Wichita." 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, sandy, conglomeratic 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 28239: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 02.02.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Dimetrodon sp. Cope 1878 synapsid | |
"Theropleura sp." = Ophiacodon
"Theropleura sp." = Ophiacodon Marsh 1878 ophiacodont | |
Amphibia | |
Eryops sp. Cope 1877 tetrapod |