Green Locality: Bridgerian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Peratherium knighti McGrew et al. 1959
    = Herpetotherium knighti McGrew et al. 1959
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus minusculus Leidy 1873
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyrachyidae
Hyrachyus modestus (Leidy 1870)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Helaletes sp. Marsh 1872
    = Tapiroidea indet. Gill 1872
Alroy 2002
based on an astragalus and there is no discussion of Desmatotherium ("Helaletes") intermedius
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Orohippus cf. pumilus (Marsh 1871)
Mammalia - Homacodontidae
Antiacodon pygmaeus (Cope 1872)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Miacidae
Miacidae indet. Cope 1880
Mammalia - Nyctitheriidae
Scenopagus priscus (Marsh 1872)
original and current combination Nyctitherium priscus
Nyctitherium serotinum (Marsh 1872)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Muridae
Mysops fraternus Leidy 1873
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Paramys wyomingensis (Wood 1959)
    = Acritoparamys wyomingensis Wood 1959
Alroy 2002
recombined as Paramys wyomingensis
presumably includes "cf. Reithroparamys matthewi"
Paramys delicatus Leidy 1871
Paramys delicatior Leidy 1871
? Ischyrotomus sp. (Matthew 1910)
synonym of Pseudotomus
cf. Pseudotomus robustus (Marsh 1872)
Pseudotomus robustus (Marsh 1872)
Black and Sutton 1984
Microparamys sp. Wood 1959
said to be new
Microparamys minutus (Wilson 1937)
Paramys excavatus Loomis 1907
    = Thisbemys perditus Wood 1962
Korth 1984
Mammalia - Rodentia - Paramyidae
Paramyidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918
"Paramys" group rodent(s)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuravidae
Sciuravidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918
said to be new
Pauromys schaubi Wood 1959
Knightomys sp. Gazin 1961
    = Knightomys huerfanensis Wood 1962
Korth 1984
Knightomys cf. senior (Gazin 1952)
    = Knightomys depressus Loomis 1907
Korth 1984
presumably includes "Microparamys lysitensis"
Sciuravus nitidus Marsh 1871
Sciuravus bridgeri Wilson 1938
Tillomys sp. Marsh 1872
two forms
Mammalia - Rodentia - Reithroparamyidae
Reithroparamys sp. Matthew 1920
two or perhaps three forms
Reithroparamys delicatissimus (Leidy 1871)
Reithroparamys huerfanensis Wood 1962
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyops sp. Leidy 1872
    = Microsyops cf. elegans Marsh 1871
Gunnell 1989
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Omomys carteri Leidy 1869
Phenacolemur mcgrewi Robinson 1968
recombined as Walshina mcgrewi
i.d. is vaguely justified in the text
Anaptomorphus aemulus Cope 1872
Mammalia - Primates
Niptomomys sp. McKenna 1960
    = Plesiadapiformes indet. Simons and Tattersall 1972
Rose and Bown 1996
may be Alveojunctus, and discussion makes it clear that it is not Niptomomys
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Apatemys bellus Marsh 1872
(1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Sublette
Coordinates: 42.7° North, 110.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.7° North, 96.1° 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
Key time interval:Bridgerian
Age range of interval:50.50000 - 46.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wasatch Member:Cathedral Bluffs Tongue
Local section:GRBsn Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:288 specimens
Taxonomic list comments:NISP 67 in West 1973b, but 301 in West and Dawson, which is due to later collections; however, 13 of these are generically indeterminate, for a total of 288
Metadata
Also known as:CB-1
Database number:16227
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3609. R. M. West and M. R. Dawson. 1973. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 12(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1097 C. C. Black and J. F. Sutton. 1984. Paleocene and Eocene Rodents of North America. In R. M. Mengle (ed.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 9:67-84 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1730 G. F. Gunnell. 1989. Evolutionary History of Microsyopoidea (Mammalia, ?Primates) and the Relationship Between Plesiadapiformes and Primates. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 27:1-157 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
2105 W. W. Korth. 1984. Earliest Tertiary evolution and radiation of rodents in North America. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 24:1-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
2966 K. D. Rose and T. M. Bown. 1996. A new plesiadapiform (Mammalia: Plesiadapiformes) from the early Eocene of the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Annals of Carnegie Museum 65(3):305-321 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]