Waggoner_Ranch_Formation

Waggoner Ranch Formation

Waggoner Ranch Formation

Geologic formation in northern Texas, United States

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]

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Fossil content

The following fossils have been uncovered from the formation:[1]

Synapsids
Temnospondyls
Reptiles
Cotylosauria
Amphibians

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Waggoner Ranch Formation at Fossilworks.org
  2. [2]
    Romer, 1928
  3. [3]
    Williston, 1915
  4. [4]
    Romer & Price, 1940
  5. [5]
    Williston, 1914
  6. [6]
    Vaughn, 1955
  7. [7]
    Fox & Bowman, 1966
  8. [8]
    Clark & Carroll, 1973
  9. [9]
    Heaton, 1979
  10. [10]
    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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