UCMP 39179, Jemez Canyon (Abo Formation): Wolfcamp, New Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Eryopidae
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Eryops sp.
Cope 1877
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Langston 1952 | |||||||||
unclassified
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Embolomeri indet.
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Langston 1952 | 1 individual | ||||||||
Archeria sp.
Case 1918
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Panchen 1970 | |||||||||
Sphenacodontidae
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Sphenacodontidae indet.
Marsh 1878
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Langston 1952 | |||||||||
Sphenacodon ferocior
Romer 1937
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1 individual | |||||||||
Dimetrodon occidentalis n. sp.
Berman 1977
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Berman 1977 | 1 individual | ||||||||
CM 26565 (type) | ||||||||||
Diadectidae
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Diadectidae indet.
Cope 1880
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Langston 1952 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | New Mexico | County: | Sandoval |
Coordinates: | 35.7° North, 106.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 6.2° North, 33.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Permian | ||
*Period: | Early/Lower Permian | *Epoch: | Rotliegendes |
Key time interval: | Wolfcamp | ||
Age range of interval: | 296.40000 - 268.00000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Abo/Cutler | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "The fossiliferous levels of the Abo Formation in the vicinity of Jemez Springs are [...] probably latest Wolfcampian in age" (Berman, 1977) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | red "shale" | ||
Secondary lithology: | coarse,micaceous,red sandstone | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Includes fossils? | Y | ||
Lithology description: "red-mottled micaceous arkose" "red shale and coarse-grained stream channel sand" (Berman, 1977) | |||
Environment: | fluvial indet. | Tectonic setting: | non-subsiding area |
Geology comments: "relative abundance of micaceous and coarse arkosic detritus often associated with the bone-beds suggest that these Abo sediments were laid down nearer their source and under conditions of better regional drainage than contemporary "deltaic" Wichita rocks in Texas. The late Pennsylvanian and early Permian uplifts of the near-by "Ancestral Rockies" were evidently responsible for this early advent of red-bed deposition on the west side of the Permian Basin..." |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Articulated whole bodies: | none |
Associated major elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
Also known as: | Harvard locality, Canyon de San Diego | ||
Database number: | 28067 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Mueller, R. Butler | Enterer: | R. Whatley, T. Liebrecht, E. Dunne |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2003-01-22 14:48:29 | Last modified: | 2012-12-10 14:40:51 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2003-01-22 14:48:29 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
43845. | A. S. Romer. 1937. New genera and species of pelycosaurian reptiles. Proceedings of the New England Zoölogical Club 16:89-95 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
28943 | D. S. Berman. 1977. A New Species of Dimetrodon (Reptilia, Pelycosauria) from a Non-Deltaic Facies in the Lower Permian of North-Central New Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 51(1):108-115 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht] | |
7686 | 5% 43720 | W. Langston. 1952. The first embolomerous amphibians from New Mexico. Journal of Geology 61(1):68-71 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/M. Carrano] |
55380 | A. L. Panchen. 1970. Handbuch der Palaoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology Teil 5 / Part 5 Batrachosauria Teil A / Part A Anthracosauria. 1-84 [G. Lloyd/G. Lloyd] | |
27105 | R. R. Reisz. 1986. Pelycosauria. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 17A:1-102 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch/T. Liebrecht] |