North Fork of the Shoshone River (NF-6): Bridgerian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Esthonychidae
Trogosus sp. Leidy 1871
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus paulus Leidy 1870
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Orohippus pumilus (Marsh 1871)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Palaeosyops fontinalis Cope 1873
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Paramys delicatus Leidy 1871
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Smilodectes mcgrewi Gingerich 1979
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyops cf. elegans (Marsh 1871)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Park
Coordinates: 44.3° North, 109.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:48.1° North, 94.6° 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 *Local age/stage:Gardnerbuttean
Key time interval:Bridgerian
Age range of interval:50.50000 - 46.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Willwood
Local section:Shosh Local bed:240
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
Metadata
Database number:16291
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
1749. G. F. Gunnell, W. S. Bartels, P. D. Ginberich and V. Torres. 1992. Wapiti Valley Faunas: Early and Middle Eocene Fossil Vertebrates from the North Fork of the Shoshone River, Park County, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 28(11):247-287 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]