Sage Creek Mountain (Bridger E): Bridgerian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
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Herpetotherium marsupium
Troxell 1923
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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Brontotheriidae indet.
(Marsh 1873)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Paramys cf. delicatior
Leidy 1871
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Reptilia
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Alligatorinae indet.
Cuvier 1807
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Geoemydidae
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"Rhinoclemys" terrestris
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= Bridgeremys pusilla
Hay 1908
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Hutchison 2006 | ||||||
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Echmatemys septaria
(Cope 1873)
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| synonym of Echmatemys stevensoniana | |||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Trionychidae
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Trionyx sp. sensu lato
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809
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= Trionychidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Alroy 2006 | ||||||
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unclassified
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Baptemys wyomingensis
(Leidy 1870)
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| original and current combination Emys wyomingensis | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Uinta |
| Coordinates: | 41.1° North, 110.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.1° North, 96.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
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: | Cedar Mountain ("Bridger E") | ||
| Local section: | Bridg | Local bed: | 7 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: from a section spanning about 100 feet of altitude | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | red siltstone |
| Lithology description: "prominently red-banded siltstones" | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | none |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float) |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | MPM 2970 | ||
| Database number: | 16405 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Holroyd |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2008-04-10 13:58:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3613. | R. M. West and J. H. Hutchison. 1981. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 46 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 18120 | J. Alroy. 2006. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 58299 | J. H. Hutchison. 2006. Bridgeremys (Geoemydidae,Testudines), a new genus from the middle Eocene of North America. In I. G. Danilov and J. F. Parham (eds.), Fossil Turtle Research 1:63-83 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Uhen] |