Henry's Fork Hill (Bridger D): Bridgerian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Dinocerata - Uintatheriidae
Uintatherium anceps (Marsh 1871)
Wheeler 1961
Bridger D4
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Uintasorex parvulus n. sp. Matthew 1909
from Bridger D; Henry's Fork area according to Gazin 1958a, Szalay 1969c
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Notharctus robustior Leidy 1872
Granger and Gregory 1917
Bridger D4; see also Robinson 1957
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Uintanius turriculorum Matthew 1915
Matthew 1915
    = Uintanius ameghini Wortman 1904
Alroy 2002
"Horizon D4 on Henry's Fork Hill"; see also Gazin 1958a
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Telmatherium cultridens n. sp. (Osborn et al. 1878)
Osborn 1929
synonym of Telmatherium validus
upper Bridger, and referred specimen from Bridger D3; type is said to be from Henry's Fork Divide by Gazin 1976
Palaeosyops robustus (Marsh 1872)
Osborn 1929
referred material from D3, D4
Palaeosyops paludosus Leidy 1870
Lane 1932
    = Palaeosyops fontinalis Cope 1873
Alroy 2002
includes type of "Palaeosyops paludosus confluentus": from "horizon C5-D4 about a mile northeast of Cedar Creek Mountain"
Mammalia - Helohyidae
Helohyus lentus (Marsh 1871)
Sinclair 1914
Henry's Fork Hill, Bridger D3; i.d. confirmed by West 1984
Mammalia - Homacodontidae
Antiacodon venustus n. sp. Marsh 1872
West 1984
Bridger D
Homacodon vagans n. sp. Marsh 1872
West 1984
Bridger D
Microsus sp. Leidy 1870
Sinclair 1914
Bridger D4
Mammalia - Creodonta
Thinocyon medius (Wortman 1902)
Morlo and Gunnell 2003
original and current combination Limnocyon medius
"Henrys Fork, Twin Buttes Member, Upper Bridger Formation" also "Br-3"
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus despiciens n. sp. Matthew 1909
    = Hyopsodus paulus Leidy 1870
Alroy 2002
"top of Horizon D" Henry's Fork area according to Gazin 1976
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Apatemys bellus Marsh 1872
"upper part of Bridger D"; type is from Henry's Fork area according to Gazin 1958a, and I believe Matthew would not have referred non- Henry's Fork material without mentioning its provenance
Reptilia
Pristichampsus vorax (Troxell 1925)
Langston 1975
recombined as Boverisuchus vorax
AMNH 2090 (fragmentary skeleton)
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
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 Member:upper
Local section:Bridg Local bed:6
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Taxonomic list comments:not the same as North of Cedar Mountain (see)
Metadata
Also known as:Cedar Mountain; Henry's Fork Table
Database number:16236
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot, P. Mannion Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion, J. Marcot
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

7017. W. D. Matthew. 1909. The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1698 W. Granger and W. K. Gregory. 1917. A revision of the Eocene primates of the genus Notharctus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 37(34) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2207 H. H. Lane. 1932. Variations in Palaeosyops. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 20(18):319-326 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
46624 W. Langston. 1975. Ziphodont crocodiles: Pristichampsus vorax (Troxell), new combination. Fieldiana: Geology 33(16):291-314 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]
2471 W. D. Matthew. 1915. A revision of the Lower Eocene Wasatch and Wind River faunas. Part IV. - Entelonychia, Primates, Insectivora (part). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34(14):429-483 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]
52289 M. Morlo and G. F. Gunnell. 2003. Small Limnocyonines (Hyaenodontidae, Mammalia) From the Bridgerian Middle Eocene of Wyoming: Thinocyon, Prolimnocyon, And Iridodon, New Genus. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 31(2):43-78 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
2708 H. F. Osborn. 1929. New Eurasiatic and American proboscideans. American Museum Novitates 393:1-22 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
3164 W. J. Sinclair. 1914. A revision of the bunodont artiodactyla of the Middle and Lower Eocene of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33(21):267-295 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
3606 R. M. West. 1984. Paleontology and Geology of the Bridger Formation, Southern Green River Basin, Southwestern Wyoming. Part 7. Survey of Bridgerian Artiodactyla, including description of a skull and partial skeleton of Antiacodon pygmaeus. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 56:1-47 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
3622 W. H. Wheeler. 1961. Revision of the Uintatheres. Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 14:1-93 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]