USNM Locality 40971 (Permian of the United States)

Also known as Don's Dump Fish Quarry

Where: Baylor County, Texas (33.7° N, 99.4° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° N, 28.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Arroyo or Vale Formation (Clear Fork Group), Kungurian (279.3 - 272.3 Ma)

• No further stratigraphic informations given by Anderson et al. (2008). The geographic data suggest that the locality is either in the upper part of the Arroyo Formation or in the lower part of the Vale Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, red siltstone

• "[...] two foot thick lens of fine-grained red siltstone [...]" (Anderson et al., 2008).

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by P. Kroehler; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: J. S. Anderson, R. R. Reisz, D. Scott, N. B. Fröbisch, and S. S. Sumida. 2008. A stem batrachian from the Early Permian of Texas and the origin of frogs and salamanders. Nature 453:515-518 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91038: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 01.09.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Gerobatrachus hottoni n. gen. n. sp.
Gerobatrachus hottoni n. gen. n. sp. Anderson et al. 2008 tetrapod
USNM 489135 (type)