Big Island-Blue Rim Badlands (UM BI-16): Bridgerian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Microparamys cf. minutus (Wilson 1937)
1 specimen
(1 measurement)
Leptotomus parvus Wood 1959
1 specimen
Paramys delicatus Leidy 1871
1 specimen
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Smilodectes mcgrewi Gingerich 1979
3 specimens
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Anaptomorphus westi Szalay 1976
1 specimen
Omomys carteri Leidy 1869
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Palaeosyops fontinalis Cope 1873
1 specimen
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus minusculus Leidy 1873
1 specimen
Mammalia
Peradectes chesteri (Gazin 1952)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Sweetwater
Coordinates: 41.7° North, 109.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.6° North, 95.1° 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:50.30000 - 46.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bridger
Local section:Bridg Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:11 specimens
Metadata
Database number:16097
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1999-09-21 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1999-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1737. G. F. Gunnell. 1998. Mammalian Fauna From the Lower Bridger Formation (Bridger A, Early Middle Eocene) of the Southern Green River Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(3):83-130 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]