Also known as B.E.G. 30996; Work Project No. 13107; Sid McAdams Locality
Where: Taylor County, Texas (32.1° N, 99.8° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° N, 29.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Vale Formation, Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)
• "22 feet above the Vale-Standpipe contact"
•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: delta plain; gray, red, sandy claystone and gray conglomerate
•"grey and red clay beds immediately beneath a grayish, poorly-consolidated conglomerate"
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by WPA in 1939–1940
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
• University of Texas
Primary reference: Anonymous. 1939. The second quarterly report covering the quarter ending September 30,1939 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-26 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67735: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 07.12.2006, edited by Emma Dunne and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes | |
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Lawnia taylorensis n. gen. n. sp.3
Lawnia taylorensis n. gen. n. sp.3 Wilson 1953 | |
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"Trematopsis seltini" = Cacops aspidephorus1
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Osteichthyes | |
"Lysorophus tricarinatus" = Brachydectes newberryi1
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"Dimetrodon gigashomogenes" = Dimetrodon giganhomogenes1
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