Sage Creek (Bridger C): Bridgerian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Dinocerata
- Uintatheriidae
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Uintatherium anceps
(Marsh 1871)
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Wheeler 1961 | |||||||||
Bridger C, Sage Creek Basin | ||||||||||
Mammalia
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Stylinodon mirus
Marsh 1874
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Schoch and Lucas 1981 | |||||||||
Sage Creek Basin, Uinta Co., in Bridger C (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Notharctidae
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Notharctus robustior
Leidy 1872
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Sage Creek Spring, "Horizon C" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Omomyidae
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Hemiacodon gracilis
Marsh 1872
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Gazin 1958 | |||||||||
"Bridger C of upper Sage Creek" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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Telmatherium cf. cultridens
(Osborn et al. 1878)
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Osborn 1929 | |||||||||
synonym of Telmatherium validus | ||||||||||
Sage Creek Spring, Bridger C3; "may represent" cultridens | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Orohippus sylvaticus
(Leidy 1870)
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Granger 1908 | |||||||||
"Sage Creek Spring, Hor. C." | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Helohyidae
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Helohyus plicodon
Marsh 1872
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West 1984 | |||||||||
Bridger C4, "Sage Creek Basin" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Creodonta
- Oxyaenidae
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Patriofelis ferox
(Marsh 1872)
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Gazin 1957 | |||||||||
"upper... Bridger C between Sage Creek and Hickey Mountain" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Platypeltis postera n. sp.
Hay 1908
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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
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] | |
14442 | ETE | 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] |