NMMNH 6121 (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: New Mexico (36.1° N, 106.1° W: paleocoordinates 1.9° S, 38.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: El Cobre Canyon Formation, Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; muddy sandstone

• The skull was collected from a muddy sandstone together with bones of an embolomere and Platyhystrix, as well as pelycosaurian-grade synapsids.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: The skull was collected from a muddy sandstone.

Primary reference: R. Werneburg, S. G. Lucas, J. W. Schneider and L. F. Rinehart. 2010. First Pennsylvanian Eryops (Temnospondyli) and its Permian Record from New Mexico. Bulletin of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science (49)129-136 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 125140: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 05.03.2012

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Eryopidae
Eryops sp.
Eryops sp. Cope 1877 tetrapod