Castle Peak tracksite: Kungurian, Texas
collected by WPA 1939
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Rhynchosauroidae
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Dromopus palmatus n. sp.
(Moodie 1929)
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Haubold and Lucas 2003 | |||||||||
| YPM 1103 (holotype); also YPM 1247, 1248, 1249, 1118; UC 2310, and 2316; MCZ 17, 23, 27, 45, 52, 54, 61, 62, 73, 74, 99, 108, 112, 120, 126, 127; NMMHN P-32394, P-32401, P-32403, P-32413/414, P-32415, P-32416, P-32418, P-32419, P-32422, P32423, P-32428, P-32430, P-32436/437, P-32443/444, P32445/446, P~32447/448, P-32457, P-32458/459, P-32460, P32467/468, P-32473, P-32474, P-32482/483; HF 173/174, 175/176, 177 to 179, 181 to 183, 185, 186, 187, 190, 196 to 206 | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Varanopus curvidactylus n. sp.
Moodie 1929
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Haubold and Lucas 2003 | |||||||||
| YPM 1106 (holotype); also UC 2300, 2305; NMMNH P 32390-392; HF 180, 188, 190, 196 | ||||||||||
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Solidopus perissodactylus n. sp.
Moodie 1930
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Haubold and Lucas 2003 | |||||||||
| UC 2314 (holotype); also UC 2303 | ||||||||||
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Erpetopus willistoni n. sp.
Moodie 1929
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Haubold and Lucas 2003 | |||||||||
| UC 443 A (holotype); also UC 2313; YPM 1101, 1102, 1106, 1107, 1119, 1124, 1132, 1134, 1135, 1246, 1249; NMMNH P-32394, P-32395, P-32396/397, P32399/400, P-32401/403, P-32402/412, P32404, P-32408/409, P-32410/411, P-32417 to 422, P-32425 to 429, P-32432/433, P-324434/435, P-32438, P32441/442, P-32443/444, P-32445/446, P-32449, P-32451 to 457, P-32458/459, P-32460 to 464, P-32466, P-32467/468, P32469 to 471, P-32473, P-32475 to 481; HF170 to 174, 179, 181,182, 183, 185, 186, 190, 196 to 206 | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Taylor |
| Coordinates: | 32.4° North, 100.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 0.9° North, 30.2° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Cisuralian |
| Stage: | Kungurian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 2 |
| Key time interval: | Kungurian | Ammonoid zone: | Medlicottia chozaensis |
| Age range of interval: | 283.3 - 274.4 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Clear Fork | Formation: | Choza | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: upper Artinskian (Haubold & Lucas 2003) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | siltstone |
| Lithology description: "a thin-bedded sandstone" (1939 report) | |
| Environment: | marginal marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Associated major elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | NMMNH,UCM,YPM | ||
| Collectors: | WPA | Collection dates: | 1939 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Castile Peak, Work Project No. 13107 | ||
| Database number: | 197319 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Dunhill | Enterer: | B. Allen |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | ||
| Created: | 2018-11-02 13:52:58 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-11-02 13:52:58 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 71439. | Anonymous. 1939. The first quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 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 1-22+ [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 67284 | H. Haubold and S. G. Lucas. 2003. Tetrapod footprints of the Lower Permian Choza Formation at Castle Peak, Texas. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 77(2):247-261 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen] |