Locality FA - Diplocaulus Site (Permian of the United States)

Where: Foard County, Texas (33.8° N, 99.6° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° N, 29.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Choza Formation (Clear Fork Group), Leonardian (286.0 - 273.0 Ma)

• "top of lower part of Choza Formation"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; fine-grained siltstone and medium-grained siltstone

• "The specimens occur in fine-grained siltstones that were formed in a series of small channels. Lateral to the channels are somewhat coarser siltstones, in Which a few non-aquatic animals are preserved." (Olson, 1956 p. 317)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Primary reference: E. C. Olson. 1954. Fauna of the Vale and Choza: 9. Captorhinomorpha. Fieldiana: Geology 10(19):211-218 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85362: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 16.12.2008, edited by Emma Dunne

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Nectridea - Diplocaulidae
Diplocaulus recurvatus
Diplocaulus recurvatus Olson 1952 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Eureptilia - Captorhinidae
Captorhinikos chozaensis
Captorhinikos chozaensis Olson 1954 eureptile
CNHM UR 100
Osteichthyes
 Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae
"Dimetrodon gigashomogenes" = Dimetrodon giganhomogenes
"Dimetrodon gigashomogenes" = Dimetrodon giganhomogenes Case 1907 synapsid