Elderberry Canyon Quarry: Bridgerian, Nevada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Notharctus tenebrosus Leidy 1870
presumably sensu Gingerich 1979a
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Uintasorex sp. Matthew 1909
Mammalia - Primates - Plesiadapidae
Trogolemur myodes Matthew 1909
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Elymys complexus Korth and Emry 1989
Emry and Korth 1989
(5 measurements)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Reithroparamyidae
Reithroparamys cf. huerfanensis Wood 1962
(3 measurements)
Reithroparamys delicatissimus (Leidy 1871)
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuravidae
Sciuravus sp. Marsh 1871
Knightomys sp. Gazin 1961
Emry and Korth 1989
Pauromys exallos Korth and Emry 1989
Emry and Korth 1989
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Mattimys sp. Korth 1984
Microparamys sambucus Korth and Emry 1989
Emry and Korth 1989
(6 measurements)
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Sinopa minor Wortman 1902
(4 measurements)
    = Sinopa rapax Leidy 1871
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Viverravidae
Viverravidae indet. Wortman and Matthew 1899
Viverravus minutus Wortman 1901
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Epoicotheriidae
? Tetrapassalus cf. mckennai Simpson 1959
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyrachyidae
Hyrachyus modestus (Leidy 1870)
(6 measurements)
Hyrachyus affinis (Marsh 1871)
synonym of Hyrachyus modestus
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Hyrachyidae indet. Osborn 1892
"Hyrachyidae undescribed genus": (6 measurements)
    = Fouchia elyensis Emry 1989
Emry 1989
Helaletes nanus (Marsh 1871)
(1 measurement)
Isectolophus latidens (Osborn et al. 1878)
Mammalia - Homacodontidae
Antiacodon pygmaeus (Cope 1872)
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Pantolestidae
Pantolestes longicaudus (Cope 1872)
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Chiroptera
Microchiroptera indet. Dobson 1875
at least two forms
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus paulus Leidy 1870
(6 measurements)
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Apatemys bellus Marsh 1872
(5 measurements)
Reptilia - Squamata
Squamata indet. Oppel 1811
"lizards"
Reptilia - Serpentes
? Serpentes indet. Linnaeus 1758
"possibly snakes"
Reptilia
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
"At least two different birds"
Amphibia - Temnospondyli
Anura indet. (Fischer von Waldheim 1813)
"a variety of small anuran amphibians"
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Ostracoda
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"root casts and other plant impressions"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nevada County:White Pine
Coordinates: 39.0° North, 114.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.4° North, 101.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Early/Lower Tertiary *Epoch:Early/Lower Eocene
*Local age/stage:Early/Lower Bridgerian
Key time interval:Bridgerian
Age range of interval:50.50000 - 46.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:"Sheep Pass"
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: from "a bed of limestone about 25 to 30 cm thick"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Lithology description: "limestone"
Environment:lacustrine - small
Geology comments: "a shallow, warm, heavily vegetated, permanent, hardwater lake"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Collection size:194 specimens
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: much of the collection is from a quarry "approximately 2 by 3 m" in area
Metadata
Database number:16218
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-11-20 18:09:36
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
1441.ETE,5% 19540R. J. Emry. 1990. Mammals of the Bridgerian (middle Eocene) Elderberry Canyon Local Fauna of eastern Nevada. In T. M. Bown and K. D. Rose (eds.), Dawn of the Age of Mammals in the Northern Part of the Rocky Mountain Interior, North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper 243:187-210 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1440 R. J. Emry. 1989.  A Tiny New Eocene Ceratomorph and Comments on "Tapiroid" Systematics . Journal of Mammalogy 70(4) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
1449 R. J. Emry and W. W. Korth. 1989. Rodents of the Bridgerian (Middle Eocene) Elderberry Canyon Local Fauna of Eastern Nevada. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 67 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]