Sage Creek (Bridger C): Bridgerian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Dinocerata - Uintatheriidae
Uintatherium anceps (Marsh 1871)
Wheeler 1961
Bridger C, Sage Creek Basin
Mammalia
Stylinodon mirus Marsh 1874
Schoch and Lucas 1981
Sage Creek Basin, Uinta Co., in Bridger C (1 measurement)
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Notharctus robustior Leidy 1872
Sage Creek Spring, "Horizon C"
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Hemiacodon gracilis Marsh 1872
Gazin 1958
"Bridger C of upper Sage Creek"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Telmatherium cf. cultridens (Osborn et al. 1878)
Osborn 1929
synonym of Telmatherium validus
Sage Creek Spring, Bridger C3; "may represent" cultridens
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Orohippus sylvaticus (Leidy 1870)
Granger 1908
"Sage Creek Spring, Hor. C."
Mammalia - Helohyidae
Helohyus plicodon Marsh 1872
West 1984
Bridger C4, "Sage Creek Basin"
Mammalia - Creodonta - Oxyaenidae
Patriofelis ferox (Marsh 1872)
Gazin 1957
"upper... Bridger C between Sage Creek and Hickey Mountain"
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Platypeltis postera n. sp. Hay 1908
Hay 1908 1 specimen
synonym of Trionyx mira
AMNH 6133, collected by AMNH expedition of 1905 from Sage Creek Springs, Bridger level C
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Uinta
Coordinates: 41.2° North, 110.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.2° North, 96.8° 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:5
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Metadata
Also known as:Sage Creek Spring
Database number:16406
Authorizer:J. Alroy, R. Benson Enterer:J. Alroy, R. Benson
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1996-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1996-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

1612 C. L. Gazin. 1957. A skull of the Bridger Middle Eocene creodont, Patriofelis ulta Leidy. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 134(8):1-20 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
1613 C. L. Gazin. 1958. A review of the middle and upper Eocene primates of North America. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 136(1):1-112 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1694 W. Granger. 1908. A revision of the American Eocene horses. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24(15):221-264 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
14442ETE O. P. Hay. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75:1-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
2708 H. F. Osborn. 1929. New Eurasiatic and American proboscideans. American Museum Novitates 393:1-22 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
3057 R. M. Schoch and S. G. Lucas. 1981. New Conoryctines (Mammalia: Taeniodonta) from the Middle Paleocene (Torrejonian) of Western North America. Journal of Mammalogy 62(4) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
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]