Arroyo del Agua (Permian of the United States)

Also known as Uppermost part of El Cobre Canyon Formation

Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.2° N, 106.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° N, 33.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: El Cobre Canyon Formation (Cutler Group), Wolfcamp (296.4 - 268.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CM

Primary reference: R. B. Holmes, D. S. Berman, and J. S. Anderson. 2013. A new dissorophid (Temnospondyli, Dissorophoidea) from the Early Permian of New Mexico (United States). Comptes Rendus Palevol 12:419-435 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179932: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 04.07.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae
Sphenacodon ferox Marsh 1878 synapsid
CM 38039
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Dissorophidae
Broiliellus reiszi n. sp. Holmes et al. 2013 tetrapod
CM 41705 (Holotype: skull and partial postcranial skeleton)