Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (42.1° N, 109.5° W: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 95.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Bridger Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• "within the stratigraphic interval referred to as the Black's Fork Member by Wood (1934). This interval represents the lower Bridger Formation, also referred to by Matthew (1909) as Bridger horizons A and B."
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
• material was found both in situ and through surface collection
Primary reference: J. D. Divay and A. M. Murray. 2016. The fishes of the Farson Cutoff Fishbed, Bridger Formation (Eocene), greater Green River Basin, Wyoming, U. S. A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(6):e1212867 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 182921: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 28.11.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Phareodus sp. Leidy 1873 arowana | |
Astephus sp. Cope 1873 catfish | |
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar |