Deep Red Run (Permian to of the United States)

Also known as Deep Red Creek; Cope's "Indian Territory"

Where: Cotton County, Oklahoma (34.3° N, 98.6° W: paleocoordinates 1.7° N, 28.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Garber Formation (Sumner Group), Artinskian to Artinskian (290.1 - 272.3 Ma)

• "The trend of the strike of the texas beds suggests that the locality lies in the Clyde formation. [...] The presence of a large Dimetrodon [...] suggests a higher position; of Cricotus a lower one; of Ophiacodon major the Clyde itself. The somewhat conflicting evidence is thus on the whole agreeable to an approximate Clyde determination." (Romer & Price, 1940).

•In the chart (fig. 2) of Olson (1967, Oklahoma Geol. Surv. Circ. 74) the relevant stratigraphic unit is given as "Hennessey Shale" but is correlated with the Garber Sandstone of other parts of Oklahoma.

•In the stratigraphic chart (table 1) of Heaton (1979, Oklahoma Geol. Surv. Bull. 127) the Deep Red Run locality is assigned to the middle part of the Garber Sandstone, the latter being correlated with the Lueders Fm. of Texas.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by W. F. Cummins

Primary reference: W. F. Cummins. 1908. The Localities and Horizons of Permian Vertebrate Fossils in Texas. Journal of Geology 16(8):737-745 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85733: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 14.01.2009, edited by Emma Dunne and Joseph Flannery-Sutherland

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Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Eryopidae
"Dimetrodon gigas" = Eryops megacephalus
"Dimetrodon gigas" = Eryops megacephalus Cope 1877 tetrapod
Osteichthyes
 Synapsida - Edaphosauridae
"Naosaurus cruciger" = Edaphosaurus cruciger
"Naosaurus cruciger" = Edaphosaurus cruciger Cope 1878 synapsid
 Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae
"Dimetrodon macrospondylus" = Dimetrodon macrospondylus, "Dimetrodon platycentrus" = Dimetrodon macrospondylus, Dimetrodon dollovianus
"Dimetrodon macrospondylus" = Dimetrodon macrospondylus Cope 1884 synapsid
"Dimetrodon platycentrus" = Dimetrodon macrospondylus Cope 1884 synapsid
Dimetrodon dollovianus Cope 1888 synapsid
 Synapsida - Ophiacodontidae
Ophiacodon major2 Romer and Price 1940 ophiacodont
AMNH 1814
 Cotylosauria - Diadectidae
Diadectes sp.1 Cope 1878 tetrapod
 Embolomera - Archeriidae
"Cricotus hypantricus" = Cricotus crassidiscus
"Cricotus hypantricus" = Cricotus crassidiscus Cope 1884 tetrapod
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Platysomus palmaris Cope 1891
AMNH 7281 (lectotype), 9160