Taylor County, WPA Site 7: Kungurian, Texas
collected by WPA 1939–1940
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Palaeonisciformes
- Amblypteridae
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Palaeoniscidae indet.
Vogt 1852
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
= Lawnia taylorensis n. gen., n. sp.
Wilson 1953
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Wilson 1953 | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Dissorophidae
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Trematopsis seltini
Olson 1956
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Eryopidae
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Eryops megacephalus
Cope 1877
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Trimerorhachidae
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? Trimerorhachis sp.
Cope 1878
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
= Trimerorhachis insignis
Cope 1878
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Diplocaulidae
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Peronedon primus
Olson 1970
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Diplocaulus recurvatus
Olson 1952
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Diplocaulus magnicornis
Cope 1882
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Seymouriidae
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Seymouria sp.
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
= Seymouria baylorensis
Broili 1904
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Waggoneriidae
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Waggoneria knoxensis
Olson 1951
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Listed as W. texensis but this is a misspelling | ||||||||||
Sphenacodontidae
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Dimetrodon sp.
Cope 1878
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= Dimetrodon gigashomogenes
Case 1907
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Caseidae
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Casea nicholsi
Olson 1954
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Captorhinidae
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Labidosaurikos meachami
Stovall 1950
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Captorhinikos valensis
Olson 1954
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Captorhinus aguti
(Cope 1882)
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Captorhinoides valensis
Olson 1951
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Molgophidae
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Lysorophus tricarinatus
Cope 1877
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Diadectidae
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Diadectes sp.
Cope 1878
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Dipnoi
- Gnathorhizidae
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Gnathorhiza dikeloda
Olson 1951
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Gnathorhiza serrata
Cope 1883
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
Chondrichthyes
- Xenacanthiformes
- Xenacanthidae
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Xenacanthus cf. platypternus
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Olson and Mead 1982 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Taylor |
Coordinates: | 32.1° North, 99.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 1.1° North, 29.9° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Cisuralian |
Stage: | Kungurian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 2 |
Key time interval: | Kungurian | ||
Age range of interval: | 283.5 - 273.01 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Vale | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "22 feet above the Vale-Standpipe contact"
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: | gray,red sandy claystone |
Secondary lithology: | gray conglomerate |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "siliceous clays" "grey and red clay beds immediately beneath a grayish, poorly-consolidated conglomerate" | |
Environment: | delta plain |
Geology comments: "low delta or floodplain... very still water" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | variable |
Fragmentation: | frequent |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | species names | ||
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
Collectors: | WPA | Collection dates: | 1939–1940 |
Collection method comments: University of Texas | |||
Taxonomic list comments:Locality number TMM 30966 preceeds specimens found at this location (Olson & Mead, 1982) |
Metadata
Also known as: | B.E.G. 30996; Work Project No. 13107; Sid McAdams Locality | ||
Database number: | 67735 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano, R. Butler | Enterer: | J. Alroy, E. Dunne, M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2006-12-07 12:55:30 | Last modified: | 2020-01-16 13:20:44 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-12-07 12:55:30 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
71437. | Anonymous. 1939. The second quarterly report covering the quarter ending September 30,1939 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-26 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
71451 | Anonymous. 1939. The third quarterly report covering the quarter ending December 31,1939 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-47 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
71453 | Anonymous. 1940. The fourth quarterly report covering the quarter ending March 31, 1940 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
71463 | Anonymous. 1940. The fifth quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30, 1940 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
30068 | 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] | |
59144 | E. C. Olson and J. G. Mead. 1982. The Vale Formation (Lower Permian): Its Vertebrates and Paleoecology. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 29 [R. Butler/E. Dunne] | |
71494 | E. H. Sellards. 1941. Final report covering the period from March 4, 1939 ro September 30, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project iii-85 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
702 | J. W. Westgate. 1989. Lower vertebrates from an estuarine facies of the Middle Eocene Laredo Formation (Claiborne Group), Webb County, Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(3):282-294 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
19359 | J. A. Wilson. 1953. Permian vertebrates from Taylor County, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 27(3):456-470 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |