Vale site 1919: Kungurian, Texas
collected by E. C. Olson 1972, 1973
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Diplocaulidae
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| 1 individual | ||||||||||
| "small, undetermined reptile with a skull length of about 1 cm" | ||||||||||
| Haglund 1977 | ||||||||||
| UCLA VP 3246, possibly identical to the "reptile" mentioned by Olson because not separately listed by Haglund (1977) | ||||||||||
| 1 individual | ||||||||||
| "small nectridean close to Peronedon" | ||||||||||
| Haglund 1977 | ||||||||||
| UCLA VP 3247 | ||||||||||
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Molgophidae
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Dipnoi
- Gnathorhizidae
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| some fragments "are occasionally encountered" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Baylor/Foard |
| Coordinates: | 33.8° North, 99.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.9° North, 29.1° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Permian | Epoch: | Cisuralian |
| Stage: | Kungurian | 10 m.y. bin: | Permian 2 |
| Key time interval: | Kungurian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 283.3 - 274.4 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Clear Fork | Formation: | Vale | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: The base and top of the Clear Fork Group are both within the Kungurian: see Wardlaw 2005 (Permophiles) for the base, and DiMichele et al. 2001 (J Paleont) for the top. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | dolomitic,red argillaceous "siliciclastic" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: No detailed description of the rocks is given in Olson & Bolles (1975), however, an X-ray diffractogramm (fig. 5) shows quartz as the main component of the matrix, followed by feldspar and dolomite. | |||
| Environment: | lacustrine - small | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | ichnofossils | ||
| Collection methods: | bulk,mechanical,acetic,field collection,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | FMNH | ||
| Collectors: | E. C. Olson | Collection dates: | 1972, 1973 |
| Collection method comments: Site actually is a trace fossil locality where some scattered remains of vertebrates have been found.
UCLA VP = Vertebrate paleontology collections of the University of California, Los Angeles | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 90452 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Mueller | Enterer: | T. Liebrecht |
| Modifier: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-07-26 16:05:07 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-07-26 16:05:07 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 30420. | E. C. Olson and K. Bolles. 1975. Permo-Carboniferous Fresh Water Burrows. Fieldiana: Geology 33(15):271-290 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |
Secondary references:
| 30419 | T. R. Haglund. 1977. New Occurences and Paleoecology of Peronedon primus Olson (Nectridea). Journal of Paleontology 51(5):982-985 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] |