Also known as Bone Quarry; Arroya de Agua; Poleo Creek
Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.2° N, 106.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.6° N, 33.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Abo/Cutler Formation, Wolfcampian (298.9 - 286.0 Ma)
• "same horizon" as the Baldwin Bonebed (see coll. 80833)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, brown claystone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S. W. Williston, E. C. Case, P. Miller in 1911
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical
• for details see Williston & Case (1913 p. 38, Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 181)
Primary reference: R. R. Reisz. 1986. Pelycosauria. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 17A:1-102 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch/T. Liebrecht]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85337: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 15.12.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Ophiacodon mirus Marsh 1878 ophiacodont FMNH (WM) 671 (not 650 as stated in Williston & Case, 1913), 672 (not 651 or 652 as stated in Williston & Case, 1913)
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Reptilia | |
Puercosaurus obtusidens n. gen. n. sp.1
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Amphibia | |
Chenoprosopus milleri n. gen. n. sp.2
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