Cedar Mountain (MPM 3077, Bridger E): Bridgerian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Geoemydidae
Bridgeremys pusilla (Hay 1908)
Hutchison 2006
Echmatemys septaria (Cope 1873)
synonym of Echmatemys stevensoniana
"Rhinoclemys" terrestris
unclassified
Baptemys wyomingensis (Leidy 1870)
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:45.9° North, 96.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Bridgerian
Age range of interval:50.30000 - 46.20000 m.y. ago
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:none
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,surface (float),sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: some screenwashing, but most material apparently surface collected
Metadata
Database number:55207
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-09-28 17:08:00 Last modified:2005-09-28 20:08:00
Access level:the public Released:2005-09-28 17:07:59
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:

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]