USGS D-1052: Bridgerian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Primates
- Omomyidae
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Strigorhysis rugosus
Bown 1979
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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Eotitanops sp.
Osborn 1907
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= Palaeosyops fontinalis
Cope 1873
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Gunnell and Yarborough 2000 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Hot Springs |
Coordinates: | 43.7° North, 108.7° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 47.5° North, 94.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Bridgerian | ||
Age range of interval: | 50.50000 - 46.20000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories: | USGS |
Metadata
Database number: | 16487 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:41 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1115. | T. M. Bown. 1982. Geology, Paleontology, and Correlation of Eocene Volcaniclastic Rocks, Southeast Absaroka Range, Hot Springs County, Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1201-A:A1-A75 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
1748 | G. F. Gunnell and V. L. Yarborough. 2000. Brontotheriidae (Perissodactyla) from the late early and middle Eocene (Brigerian), Wasatch and Bridger formations, southern Green River Basin, southwestern Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(2):349-368 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |