Continental Peak: Wasatchian - Bridgerian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Hyrachyidae
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Sweetwater |
| Coordinates: | 41.7° North, 109.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 49.3° North, 83.6° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
| Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Wasatchian - Bridgerian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 54.9 - 46.2 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Wasatch | Member: | Cathedral Bluffs Tongue |
| Local section: | GrDiv | Local bed: | 3 |
| Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:not far from Picket Lake and faunally very similar could be Bridgerian | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 15463 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1618. | C. L. Gazin. 1965. Early Eocene mammalian faunas and their environment in the vicinity of the Rock Springs Uplift, Wyoming. Wyoming Geological Association Guidebook 19:171-180 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |