Lueders Fm. Locality 3: Artinskian - Kungurian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Chondrichthyes
- Xenacanthiformes
- Xenacanthidae
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Xenacanthus platypternus
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| UCLA VP 2046, teeth, amount not specified | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Eugeneodontiformes
- Eugeneodontidae
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? Orodus corrugatus
Romer 1942
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1 element | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Eugeneodontidae | ||||||||||
| UCLA VP 2015, tooth; not found at the locality proper but about one mile to the south | ||||||||||
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Dipnoi
- Sagenodontidae
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Sagenodus sp.
Owen 1867
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1 element | |||||||||
| UCLA VP 431, tooth plate | ||||||||||
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Diadectidae
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Diadectes sp.
Cope 1878
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1 element | |||||||||
| UCLA VP 2048, single incisor | ||||||||||
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Edaphosauridae
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Edaphosaurus aff. cruciger
(Cope 1878)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| UCLA VP 2050, neural spines; UCLA VP 2051, distal right femur | ||||||||||
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Sphenacodontidae
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Dimetrodon sp.
Cope 1878
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| several neural spines, no specimen number given | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Eryopidae
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Eryops megacephalus
Cope 1877
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1 individual | |||||||||
| UCLA VP 2047, partial skull | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Diplocaulidae
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Diplocaulus sp.
Cope 1877
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| UCLA VP 2049, vertebrae and fragments of dermal bone, amount not specified | ||||||||||
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Palaeoniscoidea
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Palaeoniscoidea indet.
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| invalid subgroup of Actinopterygii | ||||||||||
| scales in coprolites | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Baylor |
| Coordinates: | 33.8° North, 99.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.5° North, 29.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Cisuralian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 2 | ||
| Key time interval: | Artinskian - Kungurian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 290.10000 - 273.01000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Wichita | Formation: | Lueders | Member: | Maybelle limestone |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 36 feet below the Aa2 submember of the Maybelle limestone | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,blue mudstone | ||
| Secondary lithology: | brown conglomerate | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: "The deposit [...] consists mostly of light-gray to blue mudstones. [...] A dark-brown, stream-channel conglomerate lies at the base of and lateral to the deposit." | |||
| Environment: | lacustrine indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
| Geology comments: "The sediments of the fossiliferous deposit at site 3 is [...] referred to as a pond or lake deposit. [...] As far as known this is the first genuinely terrestrial fossiliferous deposit yet described in the Lueders Formation." | |||
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,coprolite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),acetic,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 85301 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Mueller | Enterer: | T. Liebrecht |
| Modifier: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-12-11 22:39:36 | Last modified: | 2008-12-14 16:32:12 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2011-12-11 22:39:36 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 28758. | D. S. Berman. 1970. Vertebrate Fossils from the Lueders Formation, Lower Permian of North-Central Texas. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 86:1-61 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |