Also known as Beaver Creek, Bac locality
Where: Baylor County, Texas (33.6° N, 99.3° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° N, 28.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vale Formation (Clear Fork Group), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• Lower part of the Vale Formation, about 100 feet above base. Lower Permian (Leonardian).
•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
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the FMNH
• Original citation for type species Trematopsis seltini sp. nov. is Chicago Natural History Museum (CNHM).
Primary reference: E. C. Olson. 1956. Fauna of the Vale and Choza: 12. A new trematopsid amphibian from the Vale Formation. Fieldiana: Geology 10(26):323-328 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36571: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 04.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•[Trematopidae: Trematopsis seltini n. gen. et sp. Olson 1956]
Amphibia | |
Cacops cf. aspidephorus Williston 1910 tetrapod |