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
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 | |
Gerobatrachus hottoni n. gen. n. sp.
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