DMNH locality 4673: Early/Lower Uintan, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Epihippus cf. gracilis (Marsh 1871)
Murphey and Kelly 2017
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Wickia cf. brevirhinus Mihlbachler 2008
Murphey and Kelly 2017
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
Triplopus cf. obliquidens (Scott and Osborn 1887)
Murphey and Kelly 2017
Mammalia - Nyctitheriidae
Nyctitherium velox Marsh 1872
Murphey and Kelly 2017
Mammalia
Peradectes californicus (Stock 1936)
Herpetotherium knighti (McGrew et al. 1959)
Mammalia - Dinocerata - Uintatheriidae
Uintatherium anceps (Marsh 1871)
Murphey and Kelly 2017
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Uinta
Coordinates: 41.1° North, 110.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.9° North, 99.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2-3
Key time interval:Early/Lower Uintan Zone: Ui1a
Age range of interval:46.20000 - 39.70000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:46.94 ± 0.14 Ma (U/Pb)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bridger Member:Turtle Bluff
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: ~105 meters from base of Turtle Bluff Member in type section; dates from Murphey et al. 2018
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:SDSNH locality 5844 Roll the Bones
Database number:186968
Authorizer:P. Holroyd Enterer:P. Holroyd
Modifier:P. Holroyd Research group:vertebrate
Created:2017-07-08 19:11:55 Last modified:2018-12-12 20:29:45
Access level:the public Released:2017-07-08 19:11:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
67550. P. C. Murphey, T. S. Kelly, K. R. Chamberlain, K. Tsukui, and W. C. Clyde. 2018. Mammals from the earliest Uintan (middle Eocene) Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA, Part 3: Marsupialia and a reevaluation of the Bridgerian-Uintan North American Land Mammal Age transition. Palaeontologia Electronica 21.2.25A:1-52 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]

Secondary references:

62704 P. C. Murphey and T. S. Kelly. 2017. Mammals from the earliest Uintan (middle Eocene) Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA, Part 2: Apatotheria, Lipotyphla, Carnivoramorpha, Condylartha, Dinocerata, Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla. Palaeontologia Electronica 20.2.29A [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]