Taylor County, WPA Site 7 (Permian of the United States)

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

• "low delta or floodplain... very still water"
• "siliceous clays"

•"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

• Locality number TMM 30966 preceeds specimens found at this location (Olson & Mead, 1982)
unclassified
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Chondrichthyes
 Xenacanthiformes - Xenacanthidae
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Amblypteridae
Lawnia taylorensis n. gen. n. sp.3
Lawnia taylorensis n. gen. n. sp.3 Wilson 1953
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Dissorophidae
"Trematopsis seltini" = Cacops aspidephorus1
"Trematopsis seltini" = Cacops aspidephorus1 Williston 1910 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Eryopidae
Eryops megacephalus1 Cope 1877 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Trimerorhachidae
Trimerorhachis insignis1 Cope 1878 tetrapod
 Nectridea - Diplocaulidae
Diplocaulus magnicornis1 Cope 1882 tetrapod
"Peronedon primus" = Diplocaulus primus1 Olson 1970 tetrapod
Diplocaulus recurvatus1 Olson 1952 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Eureptilia - Captorhinidae
Labidosaurikos meachami1 Stovall 1950 eureptile
Captorhinoides valensis1 Olson 1951 eureptile
Captorhinikos valensis1 Olson 1954 eureptile
Captorhinus aguti1 Cope 1882 eureptile
Osteichthyes
 Recumbirostra - Molgophidae
"Lysorophus tricarinatus" = Brachydectes newberryi1
"Lysorophus tricarinatus" = Brachydectes newberryi1 Cope 1868 amniote
 Caseasauria - Caseidae
Casea nicholsi1 Olson 1954 synapsid
 Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae
"Dimetrodon gigashomogenes" = Dimetrodon giganhomogenes1
"Dimetrodon gigashomogenes" = Dimetrodon giganhomogenes1 Case 1907 synapsid
 Cotylosauria - Diadectidae
Diadectes sp.1 Cope 1878 tetrapod
 Seymouriamorpha - Waggoneriidae
Waggoneria knoxensis1 Olson 1951 tetrapod
Listed as W. texensis but this is a misspelling
 Seymouriamorpha - Seymouriidae
Seymouria baylorensis1 Broili 1904 tetrapod
 Dipnoi - Gnathorhizidae
Gnathorhiza serrata1 Cope 1883 lungfish
Gnathorhiza dikeloda1 Olson 1951 lungfish