Organ Rock Shale 3 (Permian of the United States)

Where: San Juan County, Utah (37.0° N, 110.1° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° N, 35.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Organ Rock Shale Formation (Cutler Group), Artinskian (290.1 - 279.3 Ma)

• Found in the lower part of the Organ Rock Shale about 30 m above the contact with the Cedar Mesa Sandstone.

Environment/lithology: "channel"; lithified, fine-grained, red sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1964

Primary reference: P. P. Vaughn. 1966. Seymouria from the Lower Permian of Southeastern Utah, and Possible Sexual Dimorphism in That Genus. Journal of Paleontology 40(3):603-612 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 218164: authorized by Bryan Gee, entered by Bryan Gee on 19.02.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Seymouriamorpha - Seymouriidae
Seymouria sanjuanensis Vaughn 1966 tetrapod
NTM VP 1033–1038, skeletons consisting of at least most of the vertebral column with ribs