Earth:Waggoner Ranch Formation
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Short description: Geologic formation in northern Texas, United States
| Waggoner Ranch Formation Stratigraphic range: Artinskian-Kungurian ~290–268 Ma | |
|---|---|
| Type | Formation |
| Unit of | Wichita Group |
| Underlies | Arroyo Formation |
| Overlies | Petrolia Formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Limestone |
| Other | Claystone |
| Location | |
| Coordinates | [ ⚑ ] : 34°00′N 99°00′W / 34.0°N 99.0°W |
| Paleocoordinates | [ ⚑ ] 2°12′N 28°30′W / 2.2°N 28.5°W |
| Region |  Texas |
| Country |  United States |
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The Waggoner Ranch Formation is a geologic formation in northern Texas . It preserves fossils dating back to the Artinskian to Kungurian stages of the Permian period.[1]
Fossil content
The following fossils have been uncovered from the formation:[1]
- Synapsids
- Dimetrodon limbatus[2]
- Glaucosaurus megalops[3]
- Mycterosaurus longiceps[4]
- Ophiacodon major[2]
- Secodontosaurus obtusidens[2]
- Varanosaurus wichitaensis[4]
- Dimetrodon sp.[2]
- Ophiacodon sp.[2]
- Temnospondyls
- Broiliellus texensis[5]
- Eryops megacephalus[2]
- Eryops sp.[2]
- Trimerorhachis sp.[2]
- Reptiles
- Araeoscelis casei[6]
- Captorhinus aguti[7]
- C. laticeps[7][8][9]
- Pantylus cordatus[2]
- Protocaptorhinus cf. pricei[7]
- Reiszorhinus olsoni[10]
- Captorhinus sp.[2]
- Cotylosauria
- Amphibians
- Diplocaulus sp.[2]
See also
- List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Texas
- Paleontology in Texas
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Waggoner Ranch Formation at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 Romer, 1928
- ↑ Williston, 1915
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Romer & Price, 1940
- ↑ Williston, 1914
- ↑ Vaughn, 1955
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 Fox & Bowman, 1966
- ↑ Clark & Carroll, 1973
- ↑ Heaton, 1979
- ↑ Sumida et al., 2010
Bibliography
- Sumida, S. S.; J. Dodick; A. Metcalf, and G. Albright. 2010. Reiszorhinus olsoni, a New Single-Tooth-Rowed Captorhinid Reptile from the Lower Permian of Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30. 704–714.
- Heaton, M. J. 1979. Cranial Anatomy of Primitive Captorhinid Reptiles from the Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian, Oklahoma and Texas. Oklahoma Geological Survey, Bulletin 127. 1–83.
- Clark, J., and R. L. Carroll. 1973. Romeriid Reptiles from the Lower Permian. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 144. 353–407.
- Fox, R. C., 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.
- Vaughn, P. P. 1955. The Permian reptile Araeoscelis restudied. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 113. 305–467.
- Romer, A. S., and L. I. Price. 1940. Review of the Pelycosauria. Geological Society of America Special Paper 28. 1–538.
- Romer, A. S. 1928. Vertebrate faunal horizons in the Texas Permo-Carboniferous red beds. University of Texas Bulletin 2801. 67–108.
- Williston, S. W. 1915. New genera of Permian reptiles. The American Journal of Science 39. 575–579.
- Williston, S. W. 1914. Broiliellus, a new genus of amphibians from the Permian of Texas. Journal of Geology 22. 49–56.
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