Los Pinos Mountains locality (Permian of the United States)

Where: Socorro County, New Mexico (34.3° N, 106.5° W: paleocoordinates 5.0° N, 34.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• Site lies close to the contact between the Abo and underlying Bursum Formation

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Specimens from both sites are reposited in 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 181078: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 18.08.2016, edited by Bryan Gee

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi - Gnathorhizidae
Gnathorhiza bothrotreta n. sp.1
Gnathorhiza bothrotreta n. sp.1 Berman 1976 lungfish
preserved in burrow casts
 Synapsida - Ophiacodontidae
Ophiacodon sp.
Ophiacodon sp. Marsh 1878 ophiacodont
 Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae
Dimetrodon sp.2
Dimetrodon sp.2 Cope 1878 synapsid
 Aistopoda - Phlegethontiidae
Phlegethontia sp.
Phlegethontia sp. Cope 1871 tetrapod
vertebrae
Amphibia
 Nectridea - Diplocaulidae
aff. Diplocaulus sp.
aff. Diplocaulus sp. Cope 1877 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Trimerorhachidae
Trimerorhachis sp.
Trimerorhachis sp. Cope 1878 tetrapod
 Temnospondyli - Dissorophidae
Platyhystrix sp.
Platyhystrix sp. Williston 1911 tetrapod
neural spines
1Berman 1976; 2Berman et al. 2015