Also known as UCMP locality 3528, NMMNH locality L 4825
Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.1° N, 106.6° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° N, 33.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: El Cobre Canyon Formation (Cutler Group), Wolfcampian (298.9 - 286.0 Ma)
• Chama Basin
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; brown, green siltstone and claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the NMMNH, UCMP
Primary reference: S. G. Lucas, S. K. Harris, J. A. Spielmann, D. S. Berman, A. C. Henrici, A. B. Heckert, K. E. Zeigler and L. F. Rinehart. 2005. Early Permian Vertebrate Assemblage and its Biostratigraphic Significance, Arroyo del Agua, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico. New Mexico Geological Society, 56th Field Conference Guidebook, Geology of the Chama Basin 288-296 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 180384: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 14.07.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Zatrachys serratus Cope 1878 tetrapod | |
Platyhystrix rugosus Case 1910 tetrapod | |
Eryops grandis Marsh 1878 tetrapod | |
Chenoprosopus milleri Mehl 1913 tetrapod | |
Osteichthyes | |
Sphenacodon ferox Marsh 1878 synapsid | |
Ophiacodon mirus Marsh 1878 ophiacodont | |
Diadectes lentus Marsh 1878 tetrapod | |
Progyrolepis sp. Fritsch 1893 ray-finned fish | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Xenacanthus sp. Beyrich 1848 elasmobranch |