Burnt Fork (Bridger C): Bridgerian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Geolabididae
Centetodon pulcher Marsh 1872
Lillegraven et al. 1981
C2, C3
Mammalia - Helohyidae
Helohyus milleri n. sp. Sinclair 1914
Sinclair 1914
Burnt Fork Postoffice in Bridger C5 (3 measurements)
Helohyus plicodon Marsh 1872
West 1984
Bridger C2, C3
Mammalia - Homacodontidae
Microsus cuspidatus Leidy 1870
West 1984
Bridger C3
Sarcolemur sp. Cope 1875
    = cf. Antiacodon sp. Marsh 1872
Sinclair 1914
Bridger C3; not discussed by West 1984; "probably" this genus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyrachyidae
Metahyrachyus troxelli n. sp. Wood 1934
    = Hyrachyus eximius Leidy 1871
Wood 1934
from "mouth of Burnt Fork... Bridger C3"
Hyrachyus affinis (Marsh 1871)
Wood 1934
synonym of Hyrachyus modestus
Bridger C4
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Manteoceras manteoceras (Matthew 1899)
    = Telmatherium manteoceras Matthew 1899
Osborn 1929
original and current combination Palaeosyops manteoceras
Bridger C2
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
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Bridgerian
Age range of interval:50.50000 - 46.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bridger Member:upper
Local section:Bridg Local bed:5
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:Burnt Fork upper Bridger: Notharctus robustior Robinson 1957 Uintatherium anceps Wheeler 1961: includes type of "Dinoceras distans" 4 mi E of Lonetree, i.e., in the Twin Buttes Mbr. just west of Burnt Fork Homacodon vagans Sinclair 1914: upper Bridger "Henry's Fork opposite the mouth of Burnt Fork"; i.d. confirmed by West 1984
Metadata
Also known as:BFPO; Burnt Fork Postoffice
Database number:16193
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1996-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1996-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
1623. C. L. Gazin. 1976. Mammalian Faunal Zones of the Bridger Middle Eocene. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 26:1-25 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

2241 J. A. Lillegraven, M. C. McKenna, and L. Kristalka. 1981. Evolutionary relationships of middle Eocene and younger species of Centetodon (Mammalia, Insectivora, Geolabididae) with a description of the dentition of Ankylodon (Adapisoricidae). University of Wyoming Publication 45:1-115 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2708 H. F. Osborn. 1929. New Eurasiatic and American proboscideans. American Museum Novitates 393:1-22 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
3164 W. J. Sinclair. 1914. A revision of the bunodont artiodactyla of the Middle and Lower Eocene of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33(21):267-295 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
3606 R. M. West. 1984. Paleontology and Geology of the Bridger Formation, Southern Green River Basin, Southwestern Wyoming. Part 7. Survey of Bridgerian Artiodactyla, including description of a skull and partial skeleton of Antiacodon pygmaeus. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 56:1-47 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
3744 H. E. Wood. 1934. Revision of the Hyrachyidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 67(5):181-295 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]