Maybelle (Permian of the United States)

Also known as Locality VIc (Romer & Price 1940), Mabelle

Where: Baylor County, Texas (33.7° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.9° N, 28.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Waggoner Ranch Formation (Wichita Group), Leonard (290.1 - 268.0 Ma)

• Waggoner Ranch Fm. is formerly known as Clyde Fm. (see Hentz, 1988, The University of Texas at Austin Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations, 170, pp. 1-55)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. R. Reisz. 1986. Pelycosauria. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 17A:1-102 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80690: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Jana Dummasch on 05.05.2008, edited by Torsten Liebrecht

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Synapsida - Ophiacodontidae
Ophiacodon uniformis Cope 1878 ophiacodont
FMNH (WM) 640
Ophiacodon major n. sp. Romer and Price 1940 ophiacodont
AMNH 4109 (type)