Pony Creek, 36 (Arroyo Formation) (Permian of the United States)

Also known as Locality 36 (Romer 1928), faunal Zone 4, Lower Clear Fork Group, Texas red-beds, redbeds

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arroyo Formation (Clear Fork Group), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• "probably about 100 feet above the Lueders" Limestone. Details for Faunal Zone 4 of Romer 1928: "The vertebrate remains are confined to approximately the lowest 250 feet or so of the Clear Fork.."

•the base and top of the Clear Fork Group (i.e., Arroyo, Vale, and Choza formations) are both within the Kungurian: see Wardlaw 2005 (Permophiles) for the base, and DiMichele et al. 2001 (J Paleont) for the top

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; red claystone and conglomeratic sandstone

• "red beds... red clays, with small amounts of sandstone and conglomerates."

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 28261: 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
 Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae
Dimetrodon sp. Cope 1878 synapsid
 Synapsida - Ophiacodontidae
"Theropleura sp." = Ophiacodon
"Theropleura sp." = Ophiacodon Marsh 1878 ophiacodont
Reptilia
 Eureptilia - Captorhinidae
Labidosaurus hamatus2 Cope 1896 eureptile
Captorhinus sp. Cope 1896 eureptile
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Eobrachyopidae
Isodectes sp. Cope 1896 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Eryopidae
Eryops sp. Cope 1877 tetrapod
 Nectridea - Diplocaulidae
Diplocaulus sp. Cope 1877 tetrapod
Diplocaulus magnicornis1 Cope 1882 tetrapod
CNHM UC 1317; specimen is deducted from Romer's (1928) original 14 occurences of Diplocaulus sp.