Danville Locality (Vertebrates): Missourian, Illinois
collected by Cope

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Archeriidae
Cricotus heteroclitus n. gen., n. sp. Cope 1875
Syntypes: University of Chicago"some caudal vertebrae and other bones".
Cricotus gibsonii n. sp. Cope 1877
Cope 1877
synonym of Cricotus heteroclitus
Cricotus discophorus n. sp. Cope 1877
Cope 1877
synonym of Cricotus heteroclitus
Reptilia
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768
Paton 1975 4 specimens
2 vertebrae, 1 limb bone
Molgophidae
Lysorophus tricarinatus n. gen., n. sp. Cope 1877
Case 1900
synonym of Brachydectes newberryi
FMNH UC 6526 (Holotype; left anterior quarter of a vertebral centrum)
Ophiacodontidae
Clepsydrops sp. Cope 1875
Romer and Price 1940 18 specimens
FMNH (WM) 6524 (part), 6525, 6529 (attributed to Lysorophus by Case, 1907), 6531 (part), 6533, 6536, 6537, 6539, 6543 (humerus, also listed among Clepsydrops vinslovii specimens by Romer & Price), 6553 (part), 6554, 6558, 6559, 6562-6565, 6573 (part), 6576
Clepsydrops collettii n. gen., n. sp. Cope 1875
Romer and Price 1940 14 specimens
FMNH (WM) 6530 (type), 6531 (part), 6535, 6540, 6542, 6547 (part), 6551, 6553 (part), 6555-6557, 6573 (part), 6575, 6578
Clepsydrops pedunculatus n. sp. Cope 1877
Case 1907 2 elements
synonym of Clepsydrops collettii
FMNH (WM) 6534 (type)
Archaeobelus vellicatus n. gen., n. sp. Cope 1877
Romer and Price 1940 1 individual
synonym of Clepsydrops collettii
FMNH (WM) 6524 (part) (type)
Clepsydrops vinslovii n. sp. Cope 1877
Romer and Price 1940 9 specimens
FMNH (WM) 6532 (type), 6533, 6545, 6548-6550, 6553 (part), 6558, 6561
? Captorhinus illinoisensis n. sp. (Williston 1911)
Romer and Price 1940 1 element
synonym of Clepsydrops vinslovii
FMNH (WM) 6547 (part) (type); catalogue number is 6548 according to Bruner (1991)
Amphibia - Diplocaulidae
Diplocaulus salamandroides n. gen., n. sp. Cope 1877
Cope 1877
FMNH UC 6513-16 (Holotype; four presacral vertebrae)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Illinois County:Vermilion
Coordinates: 40.1° North, 87.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:4.9° South, 22.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Late/Upper Pennsylvanian
Stage:Kasimovian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 5
Key time interval:Missourian
Age range of interval:305.90000 - 303.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:McLeansboro Formation:Bond
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "We believe the vertebrates have been collected from a zone 10 feet or so below the Shoal Creek Member of the Bond Formation" (DeMar, 1970)
Note: Shoal Creek Member is equivalent to Carthage Limestone Member, a name now used throughout the Illinois Basin for that lithological unit; see Jacobson (2002) A summary of references with changes in Pennsylvanian stratigraphic nomenclature at the ISGS since Bulletin 95. [Online] http://www.isgs.illinois.edu/maps-data-pub/coal-maps/pennstratigraphy.shtml
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:FMNH
Collectors:Cope
Metadata
Also known as:Oakwood Locality; Horseshoe Bend; Vermillion River; Illinois bonebed
Database number:80714
Authorizer:J. Mueller, R. Butler, M. Carrano Enterer:J. Dummasch, M. Carrano, E. Dunne, T. Liebrecht
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-05-06 02:07:23 Last modified:2020-01-24 09:03:51
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-05-06 02:07:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

28850. E. D. Cope. 1875. On fossil remains of Reptilia and fishes from Illinois. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 27(1):404-411 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

58512 E. C. Case. 1900. The vertebrates from the Permian bone bed of Vermillion County Illinois. Journal of Geology 8:698-729 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]
73745% 52340E. C. Case. 1907. Revision of the Pelycosauria of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington 55:3-176 [C. Sidor/C. Sidor/M. Carrano]
15657ETE E. D. Cope. 1877. Descriptions of extinct Vertebrata from the Permian and Triassic formations of the United States. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17(100):182-193 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
57922 E. D. Cope. 1877. A continuation of researches among the Batrachia of the Coal Measures of Ohio. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 22:573-578 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]
28640 R. DeMar. 1970. A primitive pelycosaur from the Pennsylvanian of Illinois. Journal of Paleontology 44(1):154-163 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/M. Carrano]
55639 R. L. Paton. 1975. A Catalogue of Fossil Vertebrates in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh. Part Four / Amphibia & Reptilia. Royal Scottish Museum Information Series. Geology 5 1-38 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
27105 R. R. Reisz. 1986. Pelycosauria. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 17A:1-102 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch/T. Liebrecht]
5692 A. S. Romer and L. I. Price. 1940. Review of the Pelycosauria. Geological Society of America Special Paper 28:1-538 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/T. Liebrecht]