Cathedral Bluffs Tongue (USGS D791): Bridgerian, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Miacidae
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado County:Moffat
Coordinates: 40.6° North, 108.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.8° North, 84.9° West (Wright 2013)
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
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wasatch Member:Cathedral Bluffs Tongue
Local section:Washa Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: lower part of tongue/member
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
Museum repositories:USGS
Taxonomic list comments:NW 1/4 sec 24 T 12 N R 99 W
Metadata
Database number:16199
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:1998-09-21 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1998-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
2933. H. W. Roehler. 1987. Geological investigations of the Vermillion Creek coal bed in the Eocene Niland Tongue of the Wasatch Formation, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1314-C:25-45 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
52289 M. Morlo and G. F. Gunnell. 2003. Small Limnocyonines (Hyaenodontidae, Mammalia) From the Bridgerian Middle Eocene of Wyoming: Thinocyon, Prolimnocyon, And Iridodon, New Genus. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 31(2):43-78 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]