Northeast of Fulda, 26 (Waggoner Ranch Formation): Artinskian - Kungurian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Sphenacodontidae
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| 1 specimen | |||||||
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Ophiacodontidae
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| 1 specimen | |||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas |
| Coordinates: | 33.7° North, 99.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.0° South, 30.3° West (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Cisuralian |
| Stage: | Artinskian - Kungurian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 2 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Permian - Early/Lower Permian | ||
| Key time interval: | Artinskian - Kungurian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 290.1 - 274.4 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Wichita | Formation: | Waggoner Ranch | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Details for Faunal Zone 3 of Romer 1928: "approximately 230 feet in thickness...The total thickness of the Wichita group, as thus defined is, in this region, approximately 780 feet." the Waggoner Ranch Formation is equivalent to the Bead Mountain through Lueders formations (Tabor et al. 2002), which are late Artinskian and early Kungurian according to Wardlaw 2005, Permophiles (JA) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | red,blue "shale" |
| Lithology description: "limestones, often impure, with blue and red shales." | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Romer (1928) paper is a review of vertebrates from the Texas red-beds with previously unreported (or undetailed) localities. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Locality 26 (Romer 1928), faunal Zone 3, Upper Wichita Group, Texas red-beds, redbeds | ||
| Database number: | 28249 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | R. Whatley |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2003-02-03 13:16:39 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-02-03 13:16:39 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7693. | 5% 49780 | A. S. Romer. 1928. Vertebrate faunal horizons in the Texas Permo-Carboniferous red beds. University of Texas Bulletin 2801:67-108 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/W. Clyde] |