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List of Waurika Tetrapod Paleofauna 

List of Waurika Tetrapod Paleofauna

LEPOSPONDYLI

EUREPTILIA

SYNAPSIDA

PARAREPTILIA

DIADECTOMORPHA

ANTHRACOSAUROIDEA

TEMNOSPONDYLI

UNIDENTIFIED TETRAPODS

Stratigraphic chart of the lower Permian (partial)

Phylogenetic Relationships

Content updated June 07, 2006

LIST OF WAURIKA TETRAPOD PALEOFAUNA (from Olson 1967)

References

Waurika site in southwestern Oklahoma -  Jefferson Co. ,  consists  of  gray shale in which disarticulated fossils of vertebrates are abundant, the bone bearing shale is capped by the Ryan-Asphaltum Sandstone. In Olson  map (figure 1, 1967)   Waurika site is placed in the Wellington - Garber complex,  and  considered equivalent in age to Admiral or Belle Plains Formations of Texas.

TEMNOSPONDYLI

                                                                                   Eryopidae:

                                                            Eryops cf. E. megacephalus (Cope)
 

                                                                                   Trimerorhachidae:                                                           

                                                                  Trimerorhachis cf. T. insignis (Cope)

ANTHRACOSAUROIDEA

                                                                                    Archeriidae:                                

                                                                                     Archeria sp.

LEPOSPONDYLI

                                                                                     Diplocaulidae:

                                                                   Diplocaulus cf. D. magnicornis

DIADECTOMORPHA                                          

                                                                                     Diadectes sp.

AMNIOTA                                                               

                                                                                     Synapsida:

                                                               Ophiacodon retroversus (Cope)

                                                               Dimetrodon limbatus (Cope)

                                                               Edaphosaurus boanerges (Romer and Price)