PBDB Collection

Archer City Bonebed 1 (Putnam Fm.) (Permian of the United States)

Also known as Locality IIIf (Romer & Price, 1940)

Where: Archer County, Texas (33.6° N, 98.7° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° N, 28.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Archer City Formation (Wichita Group), Wolfcampian (298.9 - 286.0 Ma)

• The former Putnam Formation corresponds to the upper part of the Archer City Formation (see Fig. 2 in Sander, 1989)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the MCZ

Primary reference: A. S. Romer. 1937. New genera and species of pelycosaurian reptiles. Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club 16:89-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79162: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Jana Dummasch on 27.02.2008, edited by Torsten Liebrecht, Emma Dunne and Bethany Allen

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
Cotylosauria -	Archeria crassidisca⁹ Archeria crassidisca⁹ Cope 1884 tetrapod vertebrae; see Romer 1951
Reptilia
Bolosauria - Bolosauridae	Bolosaurus striatus⁹ Bolosaurus striatus⁹ Cope 1878 parareptile
Eureptilia - Captorhinidae	Romeria texana n. gen. n. sp.⁷ Romeria texana n. gen. n. sp.⁷ Price 1937 eureptile MCZ 1480 (type)
Osteichthyes
Recumbirostra - Pantylidae	Pantylus cordatus² Pantylus cordatus² Cope 1881 amniote MCZ 3302 (anterior portion of skeleton articulated with skull)
Synapsida - Ophiacodontidae	"Theropleura uniformis n. gen. n. sp." = Ophiacodon uniformis⁸, "Ophiacodon uniformis" = Ophiacodon uniformis⁸, Ophiacodon retroversus⁸ "Theropleura uniformis n. gen. n. sp." = Ophiacodon uniformis⁸ Cope 1878 ophiacodont AMNH 4143 (1148) (neotype); "from an undefined Wichita locality"; MCZ 1366 "Ophiacodon uniformis" = Ophiacodon uniformis⁸ Cope 1878 ophiacodont MCZ 1413; "possibly representing a smaller species" Ophiacodon retroversus⁸ Cope 1878 ophiacodont MCZ 1426
Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae	Dimetrodon milleri n. sp. Dimetrodon milleri n. sp. Romer 1937 synapsid MCZ 1365 (type)
Synapsida - Varanopidae	Apsisaurus witteri n. gen. n. sp.⁵ Apsisaurus witteri n. gen. n. sp.⁵ Laurin 1991 synapsid MCZ 1474 (type); specimen referred to as "undescribed romeriid" by Clark & Carroll (1973) without specification of locality
Amphibia
Temnospondyli - Eryopidae	Eryops megacephalus⁹ Eryops megacephalus⁹ Cope 1877 tetrapod "fragments"
Temnospondyli - Trematopidae	Acheloma cumminsi⁹, "Acheloma pricei n. sp." = Phonerpeton pricei⁹ Acheloma cumminsi⁹ Cope 1882 tetrapod see Olson, 1941 "Acheloma pricei n. sp." = Phonerpeton pricei⁹ Olson 1941 tetrapod see Olson (1941). MCZ 1419 (Holotype: skull). Discovered in Archer City bonebed 1 (Sander, 1989; Dilkes, 1990)
Temnospondyli - Dissorophidae	Parioxys bolli n. sp.¹⁰, Broiliellus brevis n. sp.¹ Parioxys bolli n. sp.¹⁰ Carroll 1964 tetrapod AMNH 7118 (Holotype: partial postcranial skeleton) Broiliellus brevis n. sp.¹ Carroll 1964 tetrapod MCZ 1424 (Holotype: skull (length 5.6cm) and partial postcranial skeleton) and MCZ 3272
Temnospondyli - Micropholidae	Tersomius texensis⁶, Pasawioops cf. mayi⁶ Tersomius texensis⁶ Case 1910 tetrapod MCZ 1912, skull Pasawioops cf. mayi⁶ Fröbisch and Reisz 2008 tetrapod MCZ 1415, skull; from "Gully #80"
Temnospondyli -	Nanobamus macrorhinus n. gen. n. sp.¹⁰, Neldasaurus wrightae⁴ Nanobamus macrorhinus n. gen. n. sp.¹⁰ Schoch and Milner 2014 tetrapod UCLA-VP 3686 (Holotype: skull 2cm in length) Neldasaurus wrightae⁴ Chase 1965 tetrapod MCZ 1436 (poorly preserved remains of skull and postcranial elements of at least two individuals)
Temnospondyli - Zatracheidae	Zatrachys serratus⁹ Zatrachys serratus⁹ Cope 1878 tetrapod "fragments"
Nectridea - Urocordylidae	Sauropleura bairdi n. sp.³ Sauropleura bairdi n. sp.³ Carroll et al. 1998 tetrapod MCZ 3443 (Holotype: snout region, including anterior rim of orbits, of a large individual preserved in the round.)
Dissorophus augustus
-	"Dissorophus augustus n. sp." = Diploseira angusta¹ "Dissorophus augustus n. sp." = Diploseira angusta¹ Dilkes 2020 MCZ 1695 (Holotype: partial skeleton)

¹Carroll 1964; ²Carroll 1968; ³Carroll et al. 1998; ⁴Chase 1965; ⁵Laurin 1991; ⁶Maddin et al. 2013; ⁷Price 1937; ⁸Romer and Price 1940; ⁹Sander 1989; ¹⁰Schoch and Milner 2014