Tularosa Locality (Permian of the United States)

Where: Otero County, New Mexico (33.1° N, 106.1° W: paleocoordinates 3.7° N, 34.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Laborcita Formation, Wolfcampian (298.9 - 286.0 Ma)

• Stratigraphy determined by Vaughn (1969)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Most specimens are housed at the CMNH

Primary reference: D. S. Berman. 1993. Lower Permian vertebrate localities of New Mexico and their assemblages. In S. G. Lucas, J. Zidek (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology of New Mexico. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 2 11-21 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181077: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 18.08.2016

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Xenacanth indet.
Chondrichthyes
 Acanthodiformes - Acanthodidae
Acanthodes sp.
Acanthodes sp. Agassiz 1833 spiny fish
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Edopidae
cf. Edops sp.
cf. Edops sp. Romer 1936 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Dissorophidae
Platyhystrix cf. rugosus
Platyhystrix cf. rugosus Case 1910 tetrapod
Osteichthyes
 Synapsida - Edaphosauridae
Edaphosaurus cf. novomexicanus
Edaphosaurus cf. novomexicanus Williston and Case 1913 synapsid
Williston & Case (1913)
 Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae
Sphenacodon sp., Sphenacodon cf. ferox
Sphenacodon sp. Marsh 1878 synapsid
Sphenacodon cf. ferox Marsh 1878 synapsid
(Marsh, 1878)
 Synapsida - Ophiacodontidae
Ophiacodon sp.
Ophiacodon sp. Marsh 1878 ophiacodont