Locality KA Quarry site: Kungurian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Xenacanthiformes
- Xenacanthidae
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Xenacanthus sp.
Beyrich 1848
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Reptilia
- Captorhinidae
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Captorhinus aguti
(Cope 1882)
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Fox and Bowman 1966 | |||||||||
CNHM UR 119 | ||||||||||
Labidosaurikos barkeri
Olson 1954
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synonym of Labidosaurikos meachami | ||||||||||
Captorhinikos valensis n. gen., n. sp.
Olson 1954
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Olson 1954 | |||||||||
FMNH UR 101 (type), 102-104, 2496 | ||||||||||
Sphenacodontidae
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Dimetrodon gigashomogenes
Case 1907
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corrected as Dimetrodon giganhomogenes | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Knox |
Coordinates: | 33.7° North, 99.6° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 2.4° North, 29.0° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Cisuralian |
Stage: | Kungurian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 2 |
Key time interval: | Kungurian | ||
Age range of interval: | 283.50000 - 273.01000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Clear Fork | Formation: | Vale | Member: | "Bullwagon" |
Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "Robert Roth, of the Humble Oil and Refining Company of Wichita Falls, Texas, believes that surface and subsurface data show that the beds in question are part of the 'Bullwagon' member of the Vale formation. This places the section high in the Vale, just below the Choza." Olson (1948 p. 190);
the base and top of the Clear Fork Group (i.e., Arroyo, Vale, and Choza formations) are both within the Kungurian: see Wardlaw 2005 (Permophiles) for the base, and DiMichele et al. 2001 (J Paleont) for the top |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | pebbly,green,red conglomerate | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Lithology description: "The channel fill is largely clay pebble conglomerate, with pebbles ranging from a few millimeters to about 8 cm. in diameter. Rounding of the pebbles is uniformly high, but sphericity is varied. [...] The coarsest material tend to lie at the center of the channel, whereas the marginal parts are predominantly sand or clay with fine scattered pebbles." Olson (1948, p. 191) | |||
Environment: | coarse channel fill | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Geology comments: "The channels are evidence that a rather large, braided stream passed north or south over the area in a valley of considerable width. The region must have had a moderately high annual rainfall to support the fauna and flora. The total rainfall was perhaps not greatly different from what it is today, and the temperature may have been quite similar, with possibly less seasonal variation. The rains, however appear to have been periodic and torrential [...] " Olson (1948, p. 192) |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | variable |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection,survey of museum collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | FMNH |
Collection method comments: Olson (1958) subdivided the main locality into two sites: Quarry site and High channel site. |
Metadata
Database number: | 177003 | ||
Authorizer: | R. Butler | Enterer: | E. Dunne |
Modifier: | E. Dunne | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2016-03-15 11:48:56 | Last modified: | 2018-01-24 10:48:20 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2016-03-15 11:48:56 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
58444. | E. C. Olson. 1958. Fauna of the Vale and Choza: Summary, Review, and Integration of the Geology and the Faunas. Fieldiana Geology 10(32):397-448 [R. Butler/E. Dunne] |
Secondary references:
28784 | R. C. Fox and M. C. Bowman. 1966. Osteology and Relationships of Captorhinus aguti (Cope) (Reptilia: Captorhinomorpha). The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Series Vertebrata 11:1-79 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/J. Alroy] | |
26907 | ETE | E. C. Olson. 1954. Fauna of the Vale and Choza: 9. Captorhinomorpha. Fieldiana: Geology 10(19):211-218 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |