Rito Puerco (Permian of the United States)

Where: Rio Arriba County, New Mexico (36.2° N, 106.7° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° N, 33.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. Baldwin

Primary reference: R. R. Reisz. 1986. Pelycosauria. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology 17A:1-102 [J. Mueller/J. Dummasch/T. Liebrecht]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 80916: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Jana Dummasch on 21.05.2008, edited by Torsten Liebrecht

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Synapsida - Sphenacodontidae
Sphenacodon ferocior Romer 1937 synapsid
YP 818