Moonshine Creek, 31 (Waggoner Ranch Formation): Artinskian - Kungurian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Eryopidae
2 specimens
Diadectidae
Cummins 1908
Diadectes sp. Cope 1878
1 specimen
Sphenacodontidae
4 specimens
Ophiacodontidae
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Baylor
Coordinates: 33.8° North, 99.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.9° 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
Formation:Waggoner Ranch
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: About 150 feet above the Beaverburk. 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." Clyde Formation is approx. equivalent to Waggoner Ranch Formation (Hetz and Brown 1987).
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 31 (Romer 1928), faunal Zone 3, Upper Wichita Group, Texas red-beds, redbeds
Database number:28252
Authorizer:J. Alroy, R. Butler Enterer:R. Whatley, E. Dunne
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2003-02-03 13:44:15 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-02-03 13:44:15
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
7693.5% 49780A. 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]

Secondary references:

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]