Henry's Fork Hill (Bridger D): Bridgerian, Wyoming

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Primates - Notharctidae
Notharctus robustior Leidy 1872
Granger and Gregory 1917
Bridger D4; see also Robinson 1957
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Uintasorex parvulus n. sp. Matthew 1909
from Bridger D; Henry's Fork area according to Gazin 1958a, Szalay 1969c
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Uintanius turriculorum Matthew 1915
Matthew 1915
    = Uintanius ameghini Wortman 1904
Alroy 2002
"Horizon D4 on Henry's Fork Hill"; see also Gazin 1958a
Mammalia - Creodonta
Thinocyon medius (Wortman 1902)
Morlo and Gunnell 2003
original and current combination Limnocyon medius
"Henrys Fork, Twin Buttes Member, Upper Bridger Formation" also "Br-3"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Palaeosyops paludosus Leidy 1870
Lane 1932
    = Palaeosyops fontinalis Cope 1873
Alroy 2002
includes type of "Palaeosyops paludosus confluentus": from "horizon C5-D4 about a mile northeast of Cedar Creek Mountain"
Palaeosyops robustus (Marsh 1872)
Osborn 1929
referred material from D3, D4
Telmatherium cultridens n. sp. (Osborn et al. 1878)
Osborn 1929
synonym of Telmatherium validus
upper Bridger, and referred specimen from Bridger D3; type is said to be from Henry's Fork Divide by Gazin 1976
Mammalia - Helohyidae
Helohyus lentus (Marsh 1871)
Sinclair 1914
Henry's Fork Hill, Bridger D3; i.d. confirmed by West 1984
Mammalia - Homacodontidae
Antiacodon venustus n. sp. Marsh 1872
West 1984
Bridger D
Microsus sp. Leidy 1870
Sinclair 1914
Bridger D4
Homacodon vagans n. sp. Marsh 1872
West 1984
Bridger D
Mammalia - Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Hyopsodus despiciens n. sp. Matthew 1909
    = Hyopsodus paulus Leidy 1870
Alroy 2002
"top of Horizon D" Henry's Fork area according to Gazin 1976
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Apatemys bellus Marsh 1872
"upper part of Bridger D"; type is from Henry's Fork area according to Gazin 1958a, and I believe Matthew would not have referred non- Henry's Fork material without mentioning its provenance
Mammalia - Dinocerata - Uintatheriidae
Uintatherium anceps (Marsh 1871)
Wheeler 1961
Bridger D4
Reptilia
Pristichampsus vorax (Troxell 1925)
Langston 1975
recombined as Boverisuchus vorax
AMNH 2090 (fragmentary skeleton)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Sweetwater
Coordinates: 41.7° North, 109.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.6° North, 95.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Bridgerian
Age range of interval:50.50000 - 46.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bridger Member:upper
Local section:Bridg Local bed:6
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Taxonomic list comments:not the same as North of Cedar Mountain (see)
Metadata
Also known as:Cedar Mountain; Henry's Fork Table
Database number:16236
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Mannion, J. Marcot
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
7017. W. D. Matthew. 1909. The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene. Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History 9:289-567 [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]
1698 W. Granger and W. K. Gregory. 1917. A revision of the Eocene primates of the genus Notharctus. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 37(34) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2207 H. H. Lane. 1932. Variations in Palaeosyops. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 20(18):319-326 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
46624 W. Langston. 1975. Ziphodont crocodiles: Pristichampsus vorax (Troxell), new combination. Fieldiana: Geology 33(16):291-314 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Carrano]
2471 W. D. Matthew. 1915. A revision of the Lower Eocene Wasatch and Wind River faunas. Part IV. - Entelonychia, Primates, Insectivora (part). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 34(14):429-483 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]
52289 M. Morlo and G. F. Gunnell. 2003. Small Limnocyonines (Hyaenodontidae, Mammalia) From the Bridgerian Middle Eocene of Wyoming: Thinocyon, Prolimnocyon, And Iridodon, New Genus. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 31(2):43-78 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
2708 H. F. Osborn. 1929. New Eurasiatic and American proboscideans. American Museum Novitates 393:1-22 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
3164 W. J. Sinclair. 1914. A revision of the bunodont artiodactyla of the Middle and Lower Eocene of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 33(21):267-295 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
3606 R. M. West. 1984. Paleontology and Geology of the Bridger Formation, Southern Green River Basin, Southwestern Wyoming. Part 7. Survey of Bridgerian Artiodactyla, including description of a skull and partial skeleton of Antiacodon pygmaeus. Milwaukee Public Museum Contributions in Biology and Geology 56:1-47 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
3622 W. H. Wheeler. 1961. Revision of the Uintatheres. Peabody Museum of Natural History Bulletin 14:1-93 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]