South Side of Haystack Mountain: Bridgerian, Wyoming
| Country: | United States |
State/province: | Wyoming |
County: | Sweetwater |
| Coordinates: |
41.4° North, 108.2° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.6° North, 84.7° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Period: | Paleogene |
Epoch: | Eocene |
|
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
| Key time interval: | Bridgerian |
| Age range of interval: | 50.5 - 46.2 m.y. ago |
| Formation: | Washakie |
Member: | Adobe Town |
| Local section: | Twka |
Local bed: | Twka1 |
| Local order: | bottom to top |
| Stratigraphy comments: Lower Washakie on specimen label |
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | AMNH |
| Database number: | 223509 |
| Authorizer: | P. Holroyd |
Enterer: | P. Holroyd |
| Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2021-11-14 11:20:09 |
Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public |
Released: | 2021-11-14 11:20:09 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
| 78605. | | S. Tomiya, S. P. Zack, M. Spaulding and J. J. Flynn. 2021. Carnivorous mammals from the middle Eocene Washakie Formation, Wyoming, USA, and their diversity trajectory in a post-warming world. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 95(82):1-115 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] |
| 59130 | | O. C. Marsh. 1872. Preliminary description of new Tertiary mammals. Part I. American Journal of Science 4(20):122-128 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |