Cardillo Quarry (Permian of the United States)

Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.1° N, 106.6° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° N, 33.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arroyo del Agua Formation (Cutler Group), Wolfcampian (298.9 - 286.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; mudstone and sandstone

• "The sediments quite likely represent some aspect of a crevasse-splay or channel deposit"
• "The Anderson quarry consists of light gray shale with lenses of crossbedded sandstone capped by numerous, light-colored marl layers. " Lucas et al. (2005)

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by CMNH in 1979-80

• Collecting parties at the CMNH and the University of Toronto. Specimens 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 181075: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 18.08.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Eryopidae
Eryops sp.
Eryops sp. Cope 1877 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Eureptilia - Captorhinidae
Captorhinidae indet.
Captorhinidae indet. Case 1911 eureptile
Osteichthyes
 Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae
Sphenacodon sp.
Sphenacodon sp. Marsh 1878 synapsid
 Synapsida - Ophiacodontidae
Ophiacodon sp.
Ophiacodon sp. Marsh 1878 ophiacodont
 Cotylosauria - Diadectidae
Diadectes sp.
Diadectes sp. Cope 1878 tetrapod