Red Beds of Texas and Oklahoma

The Red Beds are a group of Early Permian-age geologic strata in the southwestern United States outcropping in north-central Texas and south-central Oklahoma. They comprise several stratigraphic groups including the Clear Fork Group, the Wichita Group, and the Pearce River Group.[1] The Red Beds were first explored by American paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope starting in 1877.[2] Fossil remains of many Permian tetrapods (four-limbed vertebrates) have been found in the Red Beds, including those of Dimetrodon, Edaphosaurus, Seymouria, and Eryops.

See also

Geology of Wichita Falls, Texas

References

  1. ↑ Lucas, S.G.; Spielmann, J.A.; Rinehart, L.F.; Martens, T. (2009). Dimetrodon (Amniota: Synapsida: Sphenacodontidae) from the Lower Permian Abo Formation, Socorro County, New Mexico (PDF). New Mexico Geological Society Guidebook 60. New Mexico Geological Society. pp. 281–284.
  2. ↑ Bakker, R.T. (26 October 2007). "Texas Red-Beds: World's Largest Dimetrodon Cemetary". Prehistoric CSI. Houston Museum of Natural Science. Retrieved 1 November 2012.


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