Taylor County, WPA Site 7: Kungurian, Texas
collected by WPA 1939–1940

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Dissorophidae
Trematopsis seltini Olson 1956
Olson and Mead 1982
synonym of Cacops aspidephorus
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Eryopidae
Eryops megacephalus Cope 1877
Olson and Mead 1982
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Trimerorhachidae
? Trimerorhachis sp. Cope 1878
Sellards 1941
    = Trimerorhachis insignis Cope 1878
Olson and Mead 1982
Amphibia - Diplocaulidae
Diplocaulus recurvatus Olson 1952
Olson and Mead 1982
Diplocaulus magnicornis Cope 1882
Olson and Mead 1982
Peronedon primus Olson 1970
Olson and Mead 1982
recombined as Diplocaulus primus
Seymouriidae
Seymouria sp.
Sellards 1941
    = Seymouria baylorensis Broili 1904
Olson and Mead 1982
Waggoneriidae
Waggoneria knoxensis Olson 1951
Olson and Mead 1982
Listed as W. texensis but this is a misspelling
Reptilia - Captorhinidae
Labidosaurikos meachami Stovall 1950
Olson and Mead 1982
Captorhinus aguti (Cope 1882)
Olson and Mead 1982
Captorhinikos valensis Olson 1954
Olson and Mead 1982
Captorhinoides valensis Olson 1951
Olson and Mead 1982
Caseidae
Casea nicholsi Olson 1954
Olson and Mead 1982
Sphenacodontidae
Dimetrodon sp. Cope 1878
    = Dimetrodon gigashomogenes Case 1907
Olson and Mead 1982
corrected as Dimetrodon giganhomogenes
Molgophidae
Lysorophus tricarinatus Cope 1877
Olson and Mead 1982
synonym of Brachydectes newberryi
Diadectidae
Diadectes sp. Cope 1878
Olson and Mead 1982
Dipnoi - Gnathorhizidae
Gnathorhiza dikeloda Olson 1951
Olson and Mead 1982
Gnathorhiza serrata Cope 1883
Olson and Mead 1982
Palaeonisciformes - Amblypteridae
Palaeoniscidae indet. Vogt 1852
Sellards 1941
    = Lawnia taylorensis n. gen., n. sp. Wilson 1953
Wilson 1953
Chondrichthyes - Xenacanthiformes - Xenacanthidae
Xenacanthus cf. platypternus
Olson and Mead 1982
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Taylor
Coordinates: 32.1° North, 99.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.1° North, 29.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Cisuralian
Stage:Kungurian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 2
Key time interval:Kungurian
Age range of interval:283.50000 - 273.01000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Vale
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "22 feet above the Vale-Standpipe contact"
the base and top of the Clear Fork Group (i.e., Arroyo, Vale, and Choza formations) are both within the Kungurian: see Wardlaw 2005 (Permophiles) for the base, and DiMichele et al. 2001 (J Paleont) for the top
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray,red sandy claystone
Secondary lithology:gray conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "siliceous clays" "grey and red clay beds immediately beneath a grayish, poorly-consolidated conglomerate"
Environment:delta plain
Geology comments: "low delta or floodplain... very still water"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:variable
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:species names
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:WPA Collection dates:1939–1940
Collection method comments: University of Texas
Taxonomic list comments:Locality number TMM 30966 preceeds specimens found at this location (Olson & Mead, 1982)
Metadata
Also known as:B.E.G. 30996; Work Project No. 13107; Sid McAdams Locality
Database number:67735
Authorizer:J. Alroy, R. Butler, M. Carrano Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano, E. Dunne
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2006-12-07 12:55:30 Last modified:2020-01-16 13:20:44
Access level:the public Released:2006-12-07 12:55:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
71437. Anonymous. 1939. The second quarterly report covering the quarter ending September 30,1939 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-26 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

71451 Anonymous. 1939. The third quarterly report covering the quarter ending December 31,1939 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-47 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71463 Anonymous. 1940. The fifth quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30, 1940 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71453 Anonymous. 1940. The fourth quarterly report covering the quarter ending March 31, 1940 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
30068 W. F. Cummins. 1908. The Localities and Horizons of Permian Vertebrate Fossils in Texas. Journal of Geology 16(8):737-745 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]
59144 E. C. Olson and J. G. Mead. 1982. The Vale Formation (Lower Permian): Its Vertebrates and Paleoecology. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 29 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]
71494 E. H. Sellards. 1941. Final report covering the period from March 4, 1939 ro September 30, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project iii-85 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
702 J. W. Westgate. 1989. Lower vertebrates from an estuarine facies of the Middle Eocene Laredo Formation (Claiborne Group), Webb County, Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(3):282-294 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
19359 J. A. Wilson. 1953. Permian vertebrates from Taylor County, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 27(3):456-470 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]