PBDB Collection

Kinney Brick Company Quarry (Carboniferous of the United States)

Where: Bernalillo County, New Mexico (35.0° N, 106.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.3° S, 36.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pine Shadow Member (Wild Cow Formation), Virgilian (303.7 - 298.9 Ma)

• In Schoch & Milner (2014; Palaeoherpetology Handbook) the formation is noted to be the Atrasado Formation, but in original paper it is recorded as the Wild Cow Formation. "The vertebrate fossils of the Kinney Brick locality are recovered from the Pine Shadow Member of the Wild Cow Formation in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Based on fusulinids, the Pine Shadow Member is assigned an early Virgilian age, and approximately 28 m of the upper part of the member are exposed in the quarry." Kissel (2010)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; shale and limestone

• "Excavations in the Kinney Brick Company Quarry expose about 27 m of the Pine Shadow Member of the Wild Cow Formation (LUCAS & HUBER 1991; KUES & LUCAS 1992). There is broad consensus that this sequence represents a prograding delta complex (KUES & LUCAS 1992; LORENZ et al. 1992). However, there is some disagreement as to the origin of the laminated shale that yielded the amphibian specimens. Most authors, including ourselves, interpret this cyclically-bedded sequence to represent tidal rhythmites (FELDMAN et al. 1992; ARCHER & CLARK 1992), but others (e. g., HUBER 1992) prefer a deeper water, varve model. " Hunt et al. (1996)

• The fossils are produced from the lowermost 0.5 m of shale and shaly limestone above the micritic limestone that floors the quarry.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the NMMNH

Primary reference: A. P. Hunt, S. G. Lucas, and D. S. Berman. 1996. A new amphibian (Amphibia: Temnospondyli) from the Late Pennsylvanian (Middle Stephanian) of central New Mexico, USA. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 70:555-565 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179964: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 05.07.2016, edited by Bryan Gee and Joseph Flannery-Sutherland

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
-	Saurerpetonidae indet.², cf. Bourbonella sp.⁴ Saurerpetonidae indet.² cf. Bourbonella sp.⁴ KUVP-85296 cf
Amphibia
Temnospondyli - Branchiosauridae	"Milneria huberi n. gen. n. sp." = Milnererpeton huberi "Milneria huberi n. gen. n. sp." = Milnererpeton huberi Hunt et al. 1996 tetrapod NMMNH P-3696 (Holotype: small skeleton in part and counterpart)
Temnospondyli -	Bermanerpeton kinneyi n. gen. n. sp.³ Bermanerpeton kinneyi n. gen. n. sp.³ Werneburg et al. 2021 tetrapod CM 41708a (holotype), skeleton; NMMNH P-67679a, skeleton; NHMS-WC 231, skeleton
Temnospondyli - Trimerorhachidae	Trimerorhachidae indet.², Lafonius lehmani² Trimerorhachidae indet.² Cope 1882 tetrapod Lafonius lehmani² Berman 1973 tetrapod
Osteichthyes
Eurynotiformes - Amphicentridae	Amphicentrum jurgenai⁴ Amphicentrum jurgenai⁴ Zidek 1992 22 specimens
-	Tanyrhinichthys mcallisteri¹ Tanyrhinichthys mcallisteri¹ Gottfried 1987 Holotype KUVP 83503

¹Gottfried 1987; ²Hunt et al. 1992; ³Werneburg et al. 2021; ⁴Williams and Lucas 2013