Parallelodon politus Girty 1909

Abstract

Parallelodon politus Girty, 1909 Original source Girty (1909a): 424, pl. 9 fig. 25. Type stratum and age “Middle of Capitan formation [...]; Delaware Mountain formation”; Guadalupian, Permian. Type locality Capitan Peak (station 2926); [...] Guadalupe Point (station 2931), Guadalupe Mts, Texas. [...] southern Delaware Mts, Texas (station 2969?). The stations are further specified on p. 511–512 as “2926. Guadalupe Mountains, Texas. Just below knob on crest of spur running northward from El Capitan. Part of material from horizon above or below. About 1,000 feet below summit of El Capitan and the top of the Capitan limestone.”; “2931. Guadalupe Mountains, Texas. West side of road at entrance to Guadalupe Canyon. Lower half of the Delaware Mountain sandstone; opposite to station 2903 and at about the same horizon, possibly above.”; “2969. Van Horn quadrangle, about 30 miles northeast of Van Horn, in the Delaware Mountains. Same as station 3500 [About 15 miles north of Jones’s ranch, Delaware Mountains, 4800-foot hill].”, United States of America. Type material Holotype (USNM PAL 118225) is stored at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Paleobiology Collection, Washington, D.C. Additional material was mentioned by Girty (1909a).

Authors 3

1. Julia C. Friedel

   University of Cologne

   Affiliation as printed

   Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Str. 49 a, 50674 Cologne, Germany

2. Thomas A. Neubauer Aachen Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

   Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · Bavarian Natural History Collections · Naturalis Biodiversity Center · Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie

   Affiliation as printed

   SNSB - Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology, Richard-Wagner-Strasse 10, 80333 Munich, Germany. & Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, 80333 Munich, Germany. & Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, The Netherlands

3. Michael R. W. Amler

   University of Cologne · Philipps University of Marburg

   Affiliation as printed

   Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Str. 49 a, 50674 Cologne, Germany. & Department of Geography, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Deutschhausstr. 10, 35032 Marburg, Germany