Dry Creek (Lower Bridger) (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Uinta County, Wyoming (41.2° N, 110.5° W: paleocoordinates 45.2° N, 96.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: lower Member (Bridger Formation), Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Lamothe, Chew
Primary reference: J. L. Wortman. 1901. Studies of Eocene Mammalia in the Marsh Collection, Peabody Museum. The American Journal of Science, series 4 12:143-154 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 16210: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Mark Uhen and Terri Cleary
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• may equal either Little Dry Creek or Big Dry Creek in Sweetwater Co., or Little Dry Creek in Uinta Co.; based on reference of Gingerich 1979a I believe it is in Uinta Co.
"Pauromys perditus" type of Troxell 1923a is probably but not certainly from the lower Bridger
"Limnocyon verus" Thorpe 1923a: level not stated
"Viverravus gracilis" Thorpe 1923a: level not stated
"Hyrachyus eximius" Wood 1934: "Dry Creek (hence C or D)"; "H. princeps" from same; if these are in Sweetwater Co. they may be from the lower Bridger instead
Siren dunni Goin and Auffenberg 1957: Lamothe and Chew specimen in the YPM from "Dry Creek, Bridger Basin, Sweetwater County"
"Pauromys perditus" type of Troxell 1923a is probably but not certainly from the lower Bridger
"Limnocyon verus" Thorpe 1923a: level not stated
"Viverravus gracilis" Thorpe 1923a: level not stated
"Hyrachyus eximius" Wood 1934: "Dry Creek (hence C or D)"; "H. princeps" from same; if these are in Sweetwater Co. they may be from the lower Bridger instead
Siren dunni Goin and Auffenberg 1957: Lamothe and Chew specimen in the YPM from "Dry Creek, Bridger Basin, Sweetwater County"
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"Falco falconella n. sp." = Falco falconellus5
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Saniwa ensidens2 Leidy 1870 squamates AMNH 6056, numerous fragm. caudal and dorsal vertebrae and a calcaneum
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Viverravus minutus n. sp.
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Notharctus tenebrosus3 Leidy 1870 primate includes types of "Limnotherium tyrannus" and "Hipposyus formosus" from Bridger B of "Dry Creek, Grizzly Buttes"
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