Cat-tail Spring: Bridgerian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Viverravidae
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Viverravus gracilis
Marsh 1872
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Thorpe 1923 | |||||||||
| level not stated | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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Mesatirhinus petersoni n. sp.
Osborn 1908
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= Mesatirhinus megarhinus
Earle 1891
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| from D3: Osborn 1908 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Hyrachyidae
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Hyrachyus eximius
Leidy 1871
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Wood 1934 | |||||||||
| D3 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Nyctitheriidae
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Scenopagus curtidens
(Matthew 1909)
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Krishtalka 1976 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Nyctitherium curtidens | ||||||||||
| level not known | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Thisbemys corrugatus
Wood 1959
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Wood 1962 | |||||||||
| "presumably" Twin Buttes Mbr. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Dinocerata
- Uintatheriidae
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Uintatherium anceps
(Marsh 1871)
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Wheeler 1961 | |||||||||
| includes types of "Tinoceras crassifrons" and "T. hians"; "either Bridger C or D" | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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? Minerva antiqua
(Shufeldt 1913)
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Shufeldt 1915 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| YPM 876 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Uinta |
| Coordinates: | 41.2° North, 110.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.2° North, 96.8° 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
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:shown in map of Wheeler 1961 to be at the head of Big Dry Creek and very close to the Sage Creek White Layer; within Henry's Fork Divide according to map of West 1990 presumed to fall entirely in Bridger D based on available records |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Cattail Springs | ||
| Database number: | 16200 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano | Enterer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:41 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 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:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 2170 | L. Krishtalka. 1976. Early Tertiary Adapisoricidae and Erinaceidae (Mammalia, Insectivora) of North America. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 1 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
| 57738 | R. W. Shufeldt. 1915. Fossil birds in the Marsh Collection of Yale University. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 19:1-110 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Carrano] | |
| 3419 | M. R. Thorpe. 1923. Notes on the Bridger (Eocene) Carnivora. American Journal of Science 5(25):23-39 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
| 3622 | W. H. Wheeler. 1961. Revision of the Uintatheres. Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 14:1-93 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 3731 | A. E. Wood. 1962. The Early Tertiary Rodents of the Family Paramyidae. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 52(1):3-261 [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] |