Lightning Butte: Bridgerian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Ischryomyidae indet.
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Paramys copei
Loomis 1907
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Acritoparamys francesi
(Wood 1962)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuravidae
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Knightomys huerfanensis
(Wood 1962)
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Knightomys depressus
(Loomis 1907)
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Knightomys senior
(Gazin 1952)
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Pauromys sp.
Troxell 1923
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Microsyopidae
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Uintasorex cf. parvulus
Matthew 1909
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Microsyops cf. scottianus
Cope 1881
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Notharctidae
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Notharctus cf. robinsoni
Gingerich 1979
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Omomyidae
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Huerfanius sp.
Robinson 1966
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Beard et al. 1992 | |||||||||
= Uintanius rutherfurdi
Robinson 1966
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
DUPLICATE REF 1045 or 1049 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Geolabididae
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Centetodon sp.
Marsh 1872
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Centetodon bembicophagus
Lillegraven et al. 1981
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Mammalia
- Nyctitheriidae
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Nyctitherium cf. serotinum
(Marsh 1872)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Orohippus sp.
Marsh 1872
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Mammalia
- Creodonta
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Didelphodus cf. altidens
(Marsh 1872)
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Mammalia
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Miacis cf. exiguus
Matthew and Granger 1915
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cf. Vassocyon sp.
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= cf. Vassacyon sp.
Matthew 1909
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Palaeanodonta indet.
Matthew 1918
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"A" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus paulus
Leidy 1870
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confirmed by Redline 1997 | ||||||||||
Hyopsodus minusculus
Leidy 1873
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Redline 1997 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Macroscelidea
- Adapisoricidae
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Adapisoricidae indet.
Schlosser 1887
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said to be new | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Apatemyidae
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Apatemys cf. bellus
Marsh 1872
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Mammalia
- Groeberida
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Peratherium innominatum
Simpson 1928
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= Copedelphys innominata
Simpson 1928
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
recombined as Herpetotherium innominatum | ||||||||||
Peratherium marsupium
(Troxell 1923)
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= Herpetotherium marsupium
Troxell 1923
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Groeberida
- Nototheriidae
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Armintodelphys blacki
Krishtalka and Stucky 1983
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Peradectes chesteri
(Gazin 1952)
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unclassified
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Scenopagus edenensis
(McGrew et al. 1959)
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Scenopagus priscus
(Marsh 1872)
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original and current combination Nyctitherium priscus | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Natrona |
Coordinates: | 43.2° North, 107.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 46.9° North, 92.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | *Local age/stage: | Gardnerbuttean |
Key time interval: | Bridgerian | ||
Age range of interval: | 50.30000 - 46.20000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Wind River | Member: | Lost Cabin | ||
Local section: | RedCr | Local bed: | 5 | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Gardnerbuttean |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection size: | 72 specimens |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:NISP 72, excluding generically indeterminate records |
Metadata
Also known as: | CM 1543; UCM 80061 | ||
Database number: | 16254 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2006-09-13 00:27:33 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
3329. | R. K. Stucky. 1984. Revision of the Wind River faunas, early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 5. Geology and biostratigraphy of the upper part of the Wind River Formation, northeastern Wind River Basin. Annals of Carnegie Museum 53(9):231-294 [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] | |
1045 | K. C. Beard, B. Sigé, and L. Krishtalka. 1992. A primitive vespertilionoid bat from the early Eocene of central Wyoming. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences, Paris, Serie II 314:735-741 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] | |
6223 | A. D. Redline. 1997. Revision of the Wind River faunas, early Eocene of central Wyoming. Part 13. Systematics and phylogenetic pattern of early Eocene Hyopsodus (Mammalia: Condylarthra). Annals of Carnegie Museum 66(1):1-81 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |