Norman (Permian of the United States)

Also known as Amos Moses estate

Where: Cleveland County, Oklahoma (35.2° N, 97.4° W: paleocoordinates 2.8° N, 26.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fairmont Shale Member (Hennessey Formation), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• bed 5 of general section of Olson (1967, Oklahoma Geol. Surv. Circ. 74), about 70 feet above the base of Hennessey Fm. Haglund (1977 J. Paleont. 51(5)) additionally states that the locality is in the "Fairmont Shale" of the Hennessey Fm. Haglund (1977) also states, that these beds are equivalents of the Choza Fm. of the Clear Fork Group of Texas. The base and top of the Clear Fork Group are both within the Kungurian: see Wardlaw 2005 (Permophiles) for the base, and DiMichele et al. 2001 (J Paleont) for the top. Original chronostratigraphic entry >>Leonardian<< is replaced by >>Kungurian<< (TL).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; red shale and sandy shale

• "[...] the quarry [...] lies in the upper part of a thick bed of red shale. Not far above the upper level of the bone producing layer are coarser sandy shales. These, of course, bear no relationship to the deposition of the sediments of the quarry. The sediment of the quarry basically is a red-shale. Structureless red clay-shale makes up at least 80 per cent of the total. Irregularly disposed patches of lighter colored, somewhat sandier shale occur and in places small patches of pebbles, 1 to 5 mm. in diameter, are present. The most distinctive sediment is a greenish-brown, brecciated, slightly sandy shale. It shows no regular disposition either vertically or horizontally."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: coprolite

Collected by J. W. Stovall, E. C. Olson; reposited in the FMNH

• OUSM = Oklahoma University Stovall Museum, Oklahoma

Primary reference: E. C. Olson. 1970. New and little known genera and species of vertebrates from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma. Fieldiana: Geology 18(3):359-434 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79531: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Jana Dummasch on 12.03.2008, edited by Torsten Liebrecht and Graeme Lloyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "individual bones, partial skeletons, skulls, jaws and occasional teeth of lungfish, scales of palaeoniscoids, small amphibians and reptiles"

•"To date the excavation has covered an area of about 350 square feet and approximately 1,500 cubic feet of sediment have been examined for fossils. Although the specimens are somewhat clumped in occurrence, it can be estimated fairly that they average about three per cubic foot. Thus the total number of specimens in the materials studied ranges in the neighborhood of 4,500. Of these, of course, only a small part, several hundred, has been collected. Much of the material is very fragmentary and with a few exceptions only articulated specimens, skulls, jaws and well preserved single bones were kept. Over one-half of all specimens found pertain to Lysorophus, usually consisting of vertebrae and ribs. In general, remains of this amphibian were collected only when preservation was exceptionally good, much of an individual was present, or skulls were found, either alone or associated with skeletons [!]."

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Osteichthyes
 Recumbirostra -
Dvellecanus carrolli n. gen. n. sp., Aletrimyti gaskillae n. gen. n. sp.
Dvellecanus carrolli n. gen. n. sp. Szostakiwskyj et al. 2015 amniote
UCMP 202940
Aletrimyti gaskillae n. gen. n. sp. Szostakiwskyj et al. 2015 amniote
FM-UR 1040, UCMP 202927
 Recumbirostra - Molgophidae
"Lysorophus tricarinatus" = Brachydectes newberryi
"Lysorophus tricarinatus" = Brachydectes newberryi Cope 1868 amniote
FMNH UR 1034, 1036, 1037, 1230-1233, 1240, 1288-1295
Reptilia
 Eureptilia - Captorhinidae
Captorhinikos parvus n. sp., Captorhinikos chozaensis
Captorhinikos parvus n. sp. Olson 1970 eureptile
FMNH UR 1250-1259, 1262-1283
Captorhinikos chozaensis Olson 1954 eureptile
FMNH UR 183 (formerly referred to Labidosaurikos barkeri); OUSM 4-1-53
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Micropholidae
Tersomius mosesi n. sp.
Tersomius mosesi n. sp. Olson 1970 tetrapod
FMNH UR 1214, 1216, 1218-1229, 1251a, 1285, 1286
 Microsauria - Goniorhynchidae
"Goniorhynchus stovalli n. sp." = Rhynchonkos stovalli
"Goniorhynchus stovalli n. sp." = Rhynchonkos stovalli Olson 1970 tetrapod
FMNH UR 1039, 1040, 1242-1248, 1284, 1341
 Nectridea - Diplocaulidae
"Peronedon primus n. gen. n. sp." = Diplocaulus
"Peronedon primus n. gen. n. sp." = Diplocaulus tetrapod
FMNH UR 1234 (type), 1235-1238
Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Gnathorhizidae
Gnathorhiza serrata
Gnathorhiza serrata Cope 1883 lungfish
FMNH UF 981, 1023, 1024