Species: tricarinatus COPE, 1877
Etymology:

Holotype: FMNH UC 6526

Locality: North bank of Salt Fork at the tip of Horseshoe Bend of Vermillion River, 2 miles south of Oakwood, Vermillion County, Illinois.

Horizon: Modesto Formation, Middle McLeansboro Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Conemaugh, Wolfcampanian stage, upper lower to lower middle Rotliegendes Epoch, Early Permian.

Material: Partial vertebral centrum.

Paratype: FMNH UR 6527a, b: Two centra.

Note: Lysorophus has been found in burrows (SCHULTZE, 1985)

Referred material:

FMNH UC 6528: 17 whole or partial centra.

CASE, 1902

Locality: Texas.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Permian.

Material:

Number: Not given: Fragmentary skeleton.

 

CASE, 1908

Locality: Texas.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Permian

Material:

Number: Not given: 5 skulls.

 

OLSON, 1939

Locality: Loc. 1, East Coffee Creek, west banks, 1 1/2 miles north of Lake Kemp, Baylor County, Texas.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Permian.

Material:

Number: Not given: Ribs and vertebrae.

 

Locality: Loc. 2, head of west branch of creek, Baylor County, Texas.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Permian.

Material:

Number: Not given: A large skull.

Number: Not given: Ribs and vertebrae.

 

Locality: Loc. 1, West Coffee Creek, Head of creek, Baylor County, Texas.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Permian.

Material:

Number: Not given: Ribs and vertebrae.

 

Locality: Loc. 2, West Coffee Creek, head of creek, 1/2 mile west of location No. 1, Baylor County, Texas.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Permian.

Material:

Number: Not given: Ribs and vertebrae.

 

Locality: Loc. 3, West Coffee Creek, "Lysorophus hill", east banks of creek, Baylor County, Texas.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Permian.

Material:

Number: Not given: Ribs and vertebrae.

 

Locality: Loc. 1, Bushy Creek, west bank, 1/4 mile north of head of stream, Baylor County, Texas.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Permian.

Material:

Number: Not given: Ribs and vertebrae.

 

Locality: Loc. 2, Bushy Creek, west bank, 3/4 mile north of location No. 1, Baylor County, Texas.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Permian.

Material:

Number: Not given: Ribs and vertebrae.

 

Locality: Loc. 3, Bushy Creek, Craddock's Ranch, Baylor County, Texas.

Horizon:

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Permian.

Material:

Number: Not given: Ribs and vertebrae.

 

OLSON, 1970

Locality: SW 1/4, NW 1/4, sec. 13, T8N, R2W, Cleveland County, Oklahoma.

Horizon: Hennessey Formation, (Arroyo equivalent), Low Clear Fork Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Leonardian Stage, Lower Rotliegendes Epoch, Early Permian.

Material:

FMNH UR 1034: Skull and jaws.

FMNH UR 1036: Fragmentary skull.

FMNH UR 1037: Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton.

FMNH UR 1230: Skull and jaws.

FMNH UR 1231: Fragmentary skull.

FMNH UR 1232: Vertebrae and ribs.

FMNH UR 1233: Fragmentary skull.

FMNH UR 1240: Skull and jaws.

FMNH UR 1288: Skull and jaws.

FMNH UR 1289: Fragmentary skull and jaws.

FMNH UR 1290: Skull and fragmentary skeleton.

FMNH UR 1291: Fragmentary skull and vertebrae.

FMNH UR 1292: Skull and jaws, scrap.

FMNH UR 1293: Skull and jaws, vertebrae.

FMNH UR 1294: Fragmentary skull and fragmentary skeleton.

FMNH UR 1295: Fragmentary skeleton.

OUSM 2-40-S11: Vertebrae.

OUSM 2-40-S12: Partial column.

50 partial skeletons.

 

SCHULTZE & FOREMAN, 1981

Locality: Roadcut on Kansas State Highway 99, 1.5 miles northwest of Eskridge, Wabaunsee County, Kansas.

Horizon: Lower part of Speiser Shale, Council Grove Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Early Permian.

Material:

Number: Not given:

 

= Lysorophus cf tricarinatus DALQUEST & KOCURKO 1989

Locality: Lake Kemp Dam, North-central Texas.

Horizon: Upper Waggoner Ranch Formation (formerly Lueders Formation, upper Wichita Group) Upper Wichita Group.

Biostratigraphy: Land-vertebrate faunachron upper C.

Age: Lower Leonardian Stage, Lower Rotliegendes Epoch, Early Permian.

Material:

Number: Not given:

 

= Lysorophus cf tricarinatus DALY 1973

Locality: South Grandfield, southern Tillman County, Oklahoma.

Horizon: Hennessey Formation, (Arroyo equivalent), Low Clear Fork Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Leonardian Stage, Lower Rotliegendes Epoch, Early Permian.

Material:

FM UR 2295: 2 short series of typical vertebrae and ribs.

UCLA VP 2802: Skull and skeleton.

 

= Lysorophus cf tricarinatus OLSON, 1967

Locality: Orlando Site, 2 miles northeast of Orlando, SE 1/4, sec. 31, T20N, R1W, 2 miles northeast of Orlando in Noble County, Oklahoma.

Horizon: Wellington Formation (Garber Formation), Summer Group, Arbuckle limestone, (Probably equivalent to the Arroyo Formation of Texas).

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Leonardian Stage, Lower Rotliegendes Epoch, Early Permian.

Material:

CNHM UR 1021: Vertebrae and ribs.

OUSM 2-0-S21: Vertebrae and ribs.

UM 16077: Vertebrae and ribs.

 

= Lysorophus cf tricarinatus OLSON, 1971

Locality: SW 1/4, NW 1/4, sec. 13, T8N, R2w, Cleveland County, Oklahoma.

Horizon: Hennessey Formation, (Arroyo equivalent), Low Clear Fork Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Leonardian Stage, Lower Rotliegendes Epoch, Early Permian.

Material:

UCLA VP 2802: Skull and skeleton.

 

= Lysorophus cf tricarinatus PATON, 1975

Locality: Oakwood, Vermilion County, Illinois.

Horizon:
Biostratigraphy:

Age: Asselian-Upper Carboniferous.

Material:

RSM: 1 vertebra.

 

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Species: dunkardensis ROMER, 1952
Etymology:

Holotype: CM 8581

Locality: CM locality 37, approximately 1.1 km (0.7 mile) west of Silver Hill, Proctor District, Wetzel County, on the east side of the road to Macedonia School, West Virginia.

Horizon: A four-inch thick brown, limey clay of uncertain stratigraphic position within the Greene Formation, Dunkard Group,.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Wolfcampanian stage, upper lower to lower middle Rotliegendes Epoch, Early Permian.

Material: Isolated holospondylous vertebral centrum.

Referred material:

Locality: Locality 34, north side of Newdale-West P. O. Road, Proctor District, Wetzel County, about 0.33 km (0.2 mi) northeast of Newdale, West Virginia.

Horizon: Freshwater limestone bed approximately 15 m (about 50 ft) below Windy Gap Coal, Greene Formation, Dunkard Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Wolfcampanian stage, upper lower to lower middle Rotliegendes Epoch, Early Permian

Material:

CM 8584: Dorsal vertebrae.

Locality: CM Locality 35, south side of West P. O. -Silver Hill Road, About 1 km (0.6 mi) east of West P. O., Proctor District, Wetzel County, West Virginia.

Horizon: A 60 cm ( 2 ft) thick sandy shale apparently underlying the Windy Gap coal horizon by approximately 12 m (about 40 ft.), Greene Formation, Dunkard Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Wolfcampanian stage, upper lower to lower middle Rotliegendes Epoch, Early Permian

Material:

CM 8585: Dorsal vertebrae.

 

Locality: CM Locality 1, a quarry on east side of Soho Street, Approximately 0.25 km (0.2 to 0.3 mi) north of Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvanian.

Horizon: Freshwater limestone bed within the Pittsburgh Limestone, lying 12 m (40 ft) bellow the base of the Pittsburgh Coal, Coneaugh Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Late Pennsylvanian, (= Stephanian).

Material:

CM 8586: 3 disarticulated centra.

 

Locality: Locality 3, an outcrop just north of Owl Run, approximately 2.0 km (1.0 to 1.5 mi), northeast of Sisterville, Lincoln District, Tyler County, on the west side of West Virginia Route 2 to Paden City, West Virginia.

Horizon: Uniontown Limestone, Monongahela Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Stephanian, Missourian-Virgilian, upper Silesian, Kasimovian-Gzelian epoch, Late Late Pennsylvanian (Late Late Carboniferous).

Material:

CM 8587: Vertebral elements and ribs.

 

Locality: CM locality 6, an outcrop in SW 1.4,sec. 18, T3N, R2W, Adams Township, Monrose County, Ohio.

Horizon: Interbedded limestone and shale at a horizon equivalent to the Mount Morris Limestone of West Virginia and Pennsylvania, approximately 1.3 km (7-10 ft) beneath the Waynesburg “A” Coal, Washington Formation, Dunkard Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Wolfcampanian stage, upper lower to lower middle Rotliegendes Epoch, Early Permian.

Material:

CM 8590: Vertebral elements and ribs.

 

WHIPPLE & CASE, 1930

Locality: Locality L, Rayerson Station, Pittsburgh-West Virginia.

Horizon: Washington Formation, Dunkard Group.

Biostratigraphy:

Age: Wolfcampanian stage, upper lower to lower middle Rotliegendes Epoch, Early Permian.

Material:

Number: Not given: Ribs.