Clark Hill: Sakmarian, Ohio

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Sphenacodontidae
Ctenospondylus ninevehensis Berman 1978
Diadectidae
Ambedus pusilus n. gen., n. sp. Kissel and Reisz 2004
Kissel and Reisz 2004
MCZ 9436 (Holotype: a nearly complete right maxilla) and MCZ 9437-41 (dentary and maxillae). Six specimens in total.
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Ohio County:Monroe
Coordinates: 39.7° North, 80.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.6° South, 15.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Cisuralian
Stage:Sakmarian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 2
Key time interval:Sakmarian
Age range of interval:293.52000 - 290.10000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Dunkard Formation:Greene Member:Niniveh Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Note: The age of the Greene Fm., wich is not well constrained, here is based on correlation chart (fig. 4) in Wellstead (1991, Bull. AMNH 209).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:80877
Authorizer:J. Mueller, R. Butler Enterer:J. Dummasch, E. Dunne
Modifier:T. Liebrecht Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-05-19 05:36:48 Last modified:2010-03-19 17:19:10
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-05-19 05:36:48
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

27105. R. R. Reisz. 1986. Pelycosauria. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 17A:1-102 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch/T. Liebrecht]

Secondary references:

60076 R. A. Kissel and R. R. Reisz. 2004. Ambedus pusillus, new genus, new species, a small diadectid (Tetrapoda: Diadectomorpha) from the Lower Permian of Ohio, with a consideration of diadectomorph phylogeny. Annals of Carnegie Museum 73:197-212 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]