North of Cedar Mountain (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.7° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 95.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: lower Member (Bridger Formation), Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: R. M. West. 1973. Review of the North American Eocene and Oligocene Apatemyidae (Mammalia, Insectivora). Special Publications, Texas Tech University Museum 3 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 16294: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• older "Bridger C" records from 10 or more miles north of Cedar Mountain are presumably Bridger B, see Gazin 1976 and map of West 1976a
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Orohippus sp.2 Marsh 1872 horse from the "C horizon"; not clear if O. progressus, O. sylvaticus, or both are present
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Thisbemys corrugatus n. sp.3
Thisbemys corrugatus n. sp.3 Wood 1959 rodent from north of Cedar Mountain in "Bridger C"; but from the lower Bridger according to Gazin 1976
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