Whiskey Creek, 30 (Waggoner Ranch Formation) (Permian of the United States)

Also known as Locality 30 (Romer 1928), faunal Zone 3, Upper Wichita Group, Texas red-beds, redbeds

Where: Baylor/Wilbarger County, Texas (33.8° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° N, 28.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Waggoner Ranch Formation (Wichita Group), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• "not far below the Leauders [Limestone]; about 200 feet above the Beaverburk." Details for Faunal Zone 3 of Romer 1928: "approximately 230 feet in thickness...The total thickness of the Wichita group, as thus defined is, in this region, approximately 780 feet."

•the Waggoner Ranch Formation is equivalent to the Bead Mountain through Lueders formations (Tabor et al. 2002), which are late Artinskian and early Kungurian according to Wardlaw 2005, Permophiles (JA)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; limestone and red, blue shale

• "limestones, often impure, with blue and red shales."

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 28251: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 03.02.2003, edited by Torsten Liebrecht

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Cotylosauria - Diadectidae
Chilonyx rapidens Cope 1878 tetrapod
"neotype" loc. 30
 Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae
Dimetrodon sp. Cope 1878 synapsid
Reptilia
 Eureptilia - Captorhinidae
Labidosaurus hamatus Cope 1896 eureptile
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Eryopidae
Eryops sp. Cope 1877 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Trimerorhachidae
Trimerorhachis sp. Cope 1878 tetrapod
entered as "Trimerorachis"