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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
"Dimetrodon gigas" = Eryops megacephalus
"Dimetrodon gigas" = Eryops megacephalus Cope 1877 tetrapod | |
Osteichthyes | |
"Naosaurus cruciger" = Edaphosaurus cruciger
"Naosaurus cruciger" = Edaphosaurus cruciger Cope 1878 synapsid | |
"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 | |
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"Cricotus hypantricus" = Cricotus crassidiscus
"Cricotus hypantricus" = Cricotus crassidiscus Cope 1884 tetrapod | |
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