Green Locality: Bridgerian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Apatemys bellus Marsh 1872
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus minusculus Leidy 1873
Mammalia - Carnivora - Miacidae
Miacidae indet. Cope 1880
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Orohippus cf. pumilus (Marsh 1871)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyrachyidae
Hyrachyus modestus (Leidy 1870)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Helaletes sp. Marsh 1872
    = Tapiroidea indet. Gill 1872
Alroy 2002
based on an astragalus and there is no discussion of Desmatotherium ("Helaletes") intermedius
Mammalia - Homacodontidae
Antiacodon pygmaeus (Cope 1872)
Mammalia - Nyctitheriidae
Scenopagus priscus (Marsh 1872)
original and current combination Nyctitherium priscus
Nyctitherium serotinum (Marsh 1872)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Paramyidae
Paramyidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918
"Paramys" group rodent(s)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Mysops fraternus Leidy 1873
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuravidae
Sciuravidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918
said to be new
Knightomys sp. Gazin 1961
    = Knightomys huerfanensis Wood 1962
Korth 1984
Knightomys cf. senior (Gazin 1952)
    = Knightomys depressus Loomis 1907
Korth 1984
presumably includes "Microparamys lysitensis"
Sciuravus bridgeri Wilson 1938
Sciuravus nitidus Marsh 1871
Tillomys sp. Marsh 1872
two forms
Pauromys schaubi Wood 1959
Mammalia - Rodentia - Reithroparamyidae
Reithroparamys sp. Matthew 1920
two or perhaps three forms
Reithroparamys delicatissimus (Leidy 1871)
Reithroparamys huerfanensis Wood 1962
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Microparamys sp. Wood 1959
said to be new
Microparamys minutus (Wilson 1937)
Paramys excavatus Loomis 1907
    = Thisbemys perditus Wood 1962
Korth 1984
Paramys wyomingensis (Wood 1959)
    = Acritoparamys wyomingensis Wood 1959
Alroy 2002
recombined as Paramys wyomingensis
presumably includes "cf. Reithroparamys matthewi"
Paramys delicatior Leidy 1871
Paramys delicatus Leidy 1871
? Ischyrotomus sp. (Matthew 1910)
synonym of Pseudotomus
cf. Pseudotomus robustus (Marsh 1872)
Pseudotomus robustus (Marsh 1872)
Black and Sutton 1984
Mammalia - Primates
Niptomomys sp. McKenna 1960
    = Plesiadapiformes indet. Simons and Tattersall 1972
Rose and Bown 1996
may be Alveojunctus, and discussion makes it clear that it is not Niptomomys
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Omomys carteri Leidy 1869
Phenacolemur mcgrewi Robinson 1968
recombined as Walshina mcgrewi
i.d. is vaguely justified in the text
Anaptomorphus aemulus Cope 1872
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyops sp. Leidy 1872
    = Microsyops cf. elegans Marsh 1871
Gunnell 1989
Mammalia
Peratherium knighti McGrew et al. 1959
    = Herpetotherium knighti McGrew et al. 1959
Alroy 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Sublette
Coordinates: 42.7° North, 110.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.7° North, 96.1° 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:50.50000 - 46.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wasatch Member:Cathedral Bluffs Tongue
Local section:GRBsn 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:288 specimens
Taxonomic list comments:NISP 67 in West 1973b, but 301 in West and Dawson, which is due to later collections; however, 13 of these are generically indeterminate, for a total of 288
Metadata
Also known as:CB-1
Database number:16227
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:
3609. R. M. West and M. R. Dawson. 1973. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 12(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1097 C. C. Black and J. F. Sutton. 1984. Paleocene and Eocene Rodents of North America. In R. M. Mengle (ed.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 9:67-84 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1730 G. F. Gunnell. 1989. Evolutionary History of Microsyopoidea (Mammalia, ?Primates) and the Relationship Between Plesiadapiformes and Primates. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 27:1-157 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
2105 W. W. Korth. 1984. Earliest Tertiary evolution and radiation of rodents in North America. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 24:1-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
2966 K. D. Rose and T. M. Bown. 1996. A new plesiadapiform (Mammalia: Plesiadapiformes) from the early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Annals of Carnegie Museum 65(3):305-321 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]