Trematops locality (Belle Plains Fm.): Artinskian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Trimerorhachidae
Trimerorhachis insignis Cope 1878
Pawley 2007 1 individual
MCZ 8365, rib fragments
Reptilia - Captorhinidae
Captorhinus aguti (Cope 1882)
Fox and Bowman 1966 1 individual
MCZ 1483, skull
    = "Captorhinus" laticeps Williston 1909
Clark and Carroll 1973
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Baylor
Coordinates: 33.7° North, 99.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.1° North, 29.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Cisuralian
Stage:Artinskian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 2
Key time interval:Artinskian
Age range of interval:290.10000 - 283.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Wichita Formation:Petrolia
Stratigraphy comments: Petrolia Fm. is formerly known as Belle Plains Fm. (see Hentz, 1988, The University of Texas at Austin Bureau of Economic Geology, Report of Investigations, 170, pp. 1-55)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Further specimens probably coming from this site may be included in collections (22669) and (22668).
Metadata
Also known as:west of Williams Ranch
Database number:80741
Authorizer:J. Mueller Enterer:J. Dummasch, T. Liebrecht
Modifier:T. Liebrecht Research group:vertebrate
Created:2008-05-06 08:09:27 Last modified:2010-03-03 22:32:22
Access level:authorizer only Released:2011-05-06 08:09:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

28415. 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]

Secondary references:

28784 R. C. Fox and M. C. Bowman. 1966. Osteology and Relationships of Captorhinus aguti (Cope) (Reptilia: Captorhinomorpha). The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Series Vertebrata 11:1-79 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/J. Alroy]
28611 K. Pawley. 2007. The Postcranial Skeleton of Trimerorhachis insignis Cope, 1878 (Temnospondyli: Trimerorhachidae): A Plesiomorphic Temnospondyl from the Lower Permian of North America. Journal of Paleontology 81(5):873-894 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/T. Liebrecht]