Manzanita Mountains (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Bernalillo County, New Mexico (35.0° N, 106.4° W: paleocoordinates 0.3° S, 36.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Pine Shadow Member (Atrasado Formation), Gzhelian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• "Unit C of Madera Formation." Middle Virgilian in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Reposited in the CM

Primary reference: D. S. Berman. 1973. A trimerorhachid amphibian from the Upper Pennsylvanian of New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 47:932-945 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176523: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 16.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Trimerorhachidae
Lafonius lehmani n. gen. n. sp.
Lafonius lehmani n. gen. n. sp. Berman 1973 tetrapod
CM 25474 (holotype; partially articulated skill of length 2cm and anterior portion of postcranial skeleton)