Tabernacle Butte Locality 15: Bridgerian, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Planorbidae
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Planorbina pseudoammonius
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McKenna et al. 1962 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Primates
- Omomyidae
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Washakius insignis
Leidy 1873
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Mammalia
- Geolabididae
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Geolabis cf. marginalis
(Cope 1873)
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= Centetodon sp.
Marsh 1872
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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
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Orohippus sp.
Marsh 1872
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small | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Condylarthra
- Hyopsodontidae
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Hyopsodus lepidus
Matthew 1909
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Mammalia
- Groeberida
- Nototheriidae
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Peratherium innominatum
Simpson 1928
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= Peradectes chesteri
Gazin 1952
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Krishtalka and Stucky 1983 | |||||||||
UW 984 is misidentified; no other good records of innominatum at Tabernacle Butte | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Rhineuridae
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Rhineura sp.
Cope 1861
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Hecht 1959 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Anguidae
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Xestops sp.
Cope 1873
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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 |
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] |