Weiss Locality (Waggoner Ranch Fm.) (Permian of the United States)

Also known as Red Pasture Line House

Where: Wilbarger County, Texas (34.0° N, 99.0° W: paleocoordinates 2.2° N, 28.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Waggoner Ranch Formation (Wichita Group), Leonardian (286.0 - 273.0 Ma)

• Waggoner Ranch Fm. is formerly known as Clyde Fm. (see Hentz, 1988, The University of Texas at Austin Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations, 170, pp. 1-55)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified claystone

• "very hard clay matrix" (Heaton, 1979)

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Reposited in the MCZ

Primary reference: J. Clark and R. L. Carroll. 1973. Romeriid reptiles from the Lower Permian. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 144(5):353-407 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79813: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Jana Dummasch on 25.03.2008, edited by Torsten Liebrecht

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Eureptilia - Captorhinidae
"Eocaptorhinus laticeps" = Captorhinus laticeps
"Eocaptorhinus laticeps" = Captorhinus laticeps Williston 1909 eureptile
MCZ 1740