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.Waggoner Ranch Formation at Fossilworks.org
Fossil content The following fossils have been uncovered from the formation:
Synapsids
Dimetrodon limbatus Glaucosaurus megalopsWilliston, 1915 Mycterosaurus longiceps Ophiacodon major Secodontosaurus obtusidens Varanosaurus wichitaensisRomer & Price, 1940 Dimetrodon sp.Romer, 1928 Ophiacodon sp.
Temnospondyls
Broiliellus texensisWilliston, 1914 Eryops megacephalus Eryops sp. Trimerorhachis sp.
Reptiles
Araeoscelis caseiVaughn, 1955 Captorhinus aguti C. laticepsClark & Carroll, 1973Heaton, 1979 Pantylus cordatus Protocaptorhinus cf. priceiFox & Bowman, 1966 Reiszorhinus olsoniSumida et al., 2010 Captorhinus sp.
Cotylosauria Diadectes sideropelicus Diadectes sp.
Amphibians Diplocaulus sp.
See also List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Texas Paleontology in Texas
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