Big Island-Blue Rim Badlands (UM BI-23): Bridgerian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Primates
- Notharctidae
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Smilodectes mcgrewi
Gingerich 1979
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2 specimens | ||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Leptotomus grandis
Wood 1962
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1 specimen | ||||||
= Quadratomus grandis
Wood 1962
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Sweetwater |
Coordinates: | 41.7° North, 109.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 45.6° North, 95.1° 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: | 50.5 - 46.2 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection size: | 3 specimens |
Metadata
Database number: | 16102 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1999-09-21 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:41 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-09-21 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1737. | G. F. Gunnell. 1998. Mammalian Fauna From the Lower Bridger Formation (Bridger A, Early Middle Eocene) of the Southern Green River Basin, Wyoming. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 30(3):83-130 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] |