USNM Locality 40971: Kungurian, Texas
collected by P. Kroehler
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
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Gerobatrachus hottoni n. gen., n. sp.
Anderson et al. 2008
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1 individual | |||||||||
| USNM 489135 (type) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Baylor |
| Coordinates: | 33.7° North, 99.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.8° North, 29.1° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | hand sample |
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: | Arroyo or Vale | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: No further stratigraphic informations given by Anderson et al. (2008). The geographic data suggest that the locality is either in the upper part of the Arroyo Formation or in the lower part of the Vale Formation.
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Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | fine,red siltstone | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: "[...] two foot thick lens of fine-grained red siltstone [...]" (Anderson et al., 2008). | |||
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. | Tectonic setting: | foreland basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | USNM |
| Collectors: | P. Kroehler |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Don's Dump Fish Quarry | ||
| Database number: | 91038 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Mueller | Enterer: | T. Liebrecht |
| Modifier: | T. Liebrecht | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-09-01 12:42:34 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-09-01 12:42:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 30637. | J. S. Anderson, R. R. Reisz, D. Scott, N. B. Fröbisch, and S. S. Sumida. 2008. A stem batrachian from the Early Permian of Texas and the origin of frogs and salamanders. Nature 453:515-518 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/J. Alroy] |