Clay Gall Quarry: Bridgerian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Notharctus sp. Leidy 1870
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyops cf. elegans (Marsh 1871)
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Omomys carteri Leidy 1869
Aycrossia lovei Bown 1979
Mammalia - Rodentia - Paramyidae
Leptotomus sp. Matthew 1910
    = Paramyidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918
Alroy 2002
form "A"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Reithroparamyidae
Reithroparamys cf. delicatissimus (Leidy 1871)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Pseudotomus sp. Cope 1872
    = Pseudotomus robustus Marsh 1872
Korth 1985
Thisbemys corrugatus Wood 1959
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Viverravus gracilis Marsh 1872
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Orohippus sp. Marsh 1872
Mammalia - Homacodontidae
Antiacodon pygmaeus (Cope 1872)
Mammalia - Macroscelidea - Amphilemuridae
cf. Macrocranion sp. Weitzel 1949
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus cf. paulus Leidy 1870
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Apatemys cf. bellulus Marsh 1872
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
Stratigraphy
Formation:Aycross
Local section:OwlCr Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:USGS
Metadata
Also known as:USGS D-1018
Database number:16203
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:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
2106 W. W. Korth. 1985. The Rodents Pseudotomus and Quadratomus and the Content of the Tribe Manitshini (Paramyinae, Ischyromyidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5(2):139-152 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]