White Hills: Bridgerian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia
Paramys excavatus Loomis 1907
    = Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821
Korth 1984
generically indeterminate; additional "Paramys" group rodent is listed by West
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Paramys delicatus Leidy 1871
Mammalia - Rodentia - Reithroparamyidae
Reithroparamys delicatissimus (Leidy 1871)
Reithroparamys huerfanensis Wood 1962
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuravidae
Sciuravus nitidus Marsh 1871
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyops elegans (Marsh 1871)
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Omomys carteri Leidy 1869
Washakius insignis Leidy 1873
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Orohippus cf. pumilus (Marsh 1871)
includes "Helohyus cf. plicodon": Stucky 1994 (pers. comm. 5.4.94)
Mammalia - Diacodexeidae
Diacodexis cf. secans (Cope 1881)
    = Diacodexis secans Cope 1881
Krishtalka and Stucky 1985
Mammalia - Homacodontidae
Antiacodon pygmaeus (Cope 1872)
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus minusculus Leidy 1873
unclassified
Scenopagus edenensis (McGrew et al. 1959)
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
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bridger
Local section:GRBsn Local bed:5
Local order:bottom to top
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]