Rattlesnake Canyon (Admiral Fm.) (Permian of the United States)

Also known as Locality IVc (Romer & Price 1940); Cummins' Headquarters; Lyles Place

Where: Archer County, Texas (33.6° N, 98.9° W: paleocoordinates 0.0° N, 29.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Petrolia Formation (Wichita Group), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• "Uppermost Admiral Formation" (Clark & Carroll, 1973); the uppermost part of the traditional Admiral Fm. today is considered the lowermost part of the Petrolia Fm. (see Fig. 2 in Sander, 1989)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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 84716: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 08.11.2008, edited by Emma Dunne

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Zatracheidae
Zatrachys serratus1 Cope 1878 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Trimerorhachidae
Trimerorhachis insignis1 Cope 1878 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Dissorophidae
cf. Platyhystrix sp.3 Williston 1911 tetrapod
MCZ 1477
 Temnospondyli - Eryopidae
Eryops megacephalus1 Cope 1877 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Eureptilia - Captorhinidae
Protocaptorhinus pricei n. gen. n. sp.
Protocaptorhinus pricei n. gen. n. sp. Clark and Carroll 1973 eureptile
MCZ 1478 (type); specimen referred to Captorhinus aguti by Seltin (1959) and considered a "morphological ancestor" of Captorhinus by Watson (1954)
Osteichthyes
 Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae
Dimetrodon milleri1 Romer 1937 synapsid
 Synapsida - Edaphosauridae
Edaphosaurus boanerges1 Romer and Price 1940 synapsid
 Synapsida - Ophiacodontidae
Ophiacodon retroversus2 Cope 1878 ophiacodont
MCZ 1103, 1119, 1121, 1200, 1203, 1205, 1294, 1296, 1299, 1450, 1484, 1486, 1560, 1562,
Ophiacodon uniformis2 Cope 1878 ophiacodont
MCZ 1297
 Cotylosauria - Diadectidae
Diadectes sideropelicus1 Cope 1878 tetrapod
 Cotylosauria -
Archeria crassidisca1 Cope 1884 tetrapod
MCZ 1170, 1172, 1173, 1180, 1287, 1288, 1290.