Weiss Locality (Waggoner Ranch Fm.): Leonardian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Captorhinidae
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| 1 individual | ||||||||||
| MCZ 1740 | ||||||||||
| Heaton 1979 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Wilbarger |
| Coordinates: | 34.0° North, 99.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 0.1° South, 29.7° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | hand sample |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Cisuralian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 2 | ||
| Key time interval: | Leonardian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 286 - 274.4 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Wichita | Formation: | Waggoner Ranch | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Waggoner Ranch Fm. is formerly known as Clyde Fm. (see Hentz, 1988, The University of Texas at Austin Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations, 170, pp. 1-55) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified claystone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: "very hard clay matrix" (Heaton, 1979) | |||
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with silica |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | MCZ |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Red Pasture Line House | ||
| Database number: | 79813 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Mueller | Enterer: | J. Dummasch, T. Liebrecht |
| Modifier: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-03-25 07:55:05 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2011-03-25 07:55:05 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 28415. | J. Clark and R. L. Carroll. 1973. Romeriid reptiles from the Lower Permian. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 144(5):353-407 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 28362 | M. J. Heaton. 1979. Cranial Anatomy of Primitive Captorhinid Reptiles from the Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian, Oklahoma and Texas. Oklahoma Geological Survey, Bulletin 127:1-83 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht] |