AMNH ?, based on AMNH 4794 (Permian of the United States)

Also known as horizon of Diasparactus zenos; El Cobre Canyon

Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.3° N, 106.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 4.5° N, 33.8° W (Wright 2013)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Abo/Cutler Formation, Wolfcampian (298.9 - 286.0 Ma)

• Not much is described in this publication

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified, red sandstone and lithified conglomerate

• "a reddish, clayey sandstone somewhat below the middle of the Permo-Carboniferous strata of El Cobre Canyon, in Rio Arriba, New Mexico." (Case and Williston 1913, p.17)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E.C. Case in 1910; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: E. C. Case and S. W. Williston. 1913. Description of a nearly complete skeleton of Diasparactus zenos Case. In E. C. Case, S. W. Williston, & M. G. Mehl (eds.), Permo-Carboniferous Vertebrates from New Mexico. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 181:17-35 [R. Reisz/D. Mazierski/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80130: authorized by Robert Reisz, entered by Robert Reisz on 06.04.2008, edited by Torsten Liebrecht

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Cotylosauria - Diadectidae
"Diasparactus zenos" = Diadectes zenos
"Diasparactus zenos" = Diadectes zenos Case 1910 tetrapod