Tabernacle Butte Locality 15: Bridgerian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Planorbidae
Planorbina pseudoammonius
McKenna et al. 1962
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Washakius insignis Leidy 1873
Mammalia - Geolabididae
Geolabis cf. marginalis (Cope 1873)
    = Centetodon sp. Marsh 1872
Alroy 2002
replaces ID of McKenna et al. 1962; certainly not marginalis; not mentioned by Lillegraven et al. 1981, unless their record of C. bembicophagus at Loc. 3 is a lapsus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Orohippus sp. Marsh 1872
small
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus lepidus Matthew 1909
Mammalia - Groeberida - Nototheriidae
Peratherium innominatum Simpson 1928
    = Peradectes chesteri Gazin 1952
Krishtalka and Stucky 1983
UW 984 is misidentified; no other good records of innominatum at Tabernacle Butte
Reptilia - Rhineuridae
Rhineura sp. Cope 1861
Hecht 1959
Reptilia - Anguidae
Xestops sp. Cope 1873
Hecht 1959
osteoscutes
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Sublette
Coordinates: 42.7° North, 110.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.7° North, 96.1° West
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:50.30000 - 46.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bridger
Local section:GRBsn Local bed:6
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Database number:16432
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2523. P. O. McGrew, J. E. Berman, M. K. Hecht, J. M. Hummel, G. G. Simpson and A. E. Wood. 1959. The geology and paleontology of the Elk Mountain and Tabernacle Butte area, Wyoming. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 117(3):117-176 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Whatley]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
59968 M. K. Hecht. 1959. Amphibians and Reptiles (in: The Geology and Paleontology of the Elk Mountain and Tabernacle Butte area, Wyoming). In P. O. McGrew (ed.), Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 117(3):130-176 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary]
2179 L. Krishtalka and R. K. Stucky. 1983. Paleocene and Eocene marsupials of North America. Annals of Carnegie Museum 52(10):229-264 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2542 M. C. McKenna, P. Robinson, and D. W. Taylor. 1962. Notes on Eocene Mammalia and Mollusca from Tabernacle Butte, Wyoming. American Museum Novitates 2102:1-33 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Whatley]