White Hills: Bridgerian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Paramys excavatus
Loomis 1907
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= Rodentia indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Korth 1984 | |||||||||
generically indeterminate; additional "Paramys" group rodent is listed by West | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Paramys delicatus
Leidy 1871
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Reithroparamyidae
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Reithroparamys delicatissimus
(Leidy 1871)
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Reithroparamys huerfanensis
Wood 1962
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuravidae
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Sciuravus nitidus
Marsh 1871
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Microsyopidae
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Microsyops elegans
(Marsh 1871)
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Omomyidae
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Omomys carteri
Leidy 1869
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Washakius insignis
Leidy 1873
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Orohippus cf. pumilus
(Marsh 1871)
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includes "Helohyus cf. plicodon": Stucky 1994 (pers. comm. 5.4.94) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Diacodexeidae
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Diacodexis cf. secans
(Cope 1881)
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= Diacodexis secans
Cope 1881
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Krishtalka and Stucky 1985 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Homacodontidae
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Antiacodon pygmaeus
(Cope 1872)
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Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus minusculus
Leidy 1873
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unclassified
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Scenopagus edenensis
(McGrew et al. 1959)
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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 |
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 |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection size: | 41 specimens |
Metadata
Also known as: | B-2 | ||
Database number: | 16504 | ||
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:
3596. | R. M. West. 1973. Geology and mammalian paleontology of the New Fork-Big Sandy area, Sublette County, Wyoming. Fieldiana: Geology 29 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
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] | |
2183 | L. Krishtalka and R. K. Stucky. 1985. Revision of the Eocene Wind River Faunas, Early Eocene of Central Wyoming. Part 7. Revision of Diacodexis (Mammalian, Artiodactyla). Annals of Carnegie Museum 54(14):413-486 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |