Also known as DMNS loc. 885
Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.4° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 45.3° N, 96.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Black's Fork Member (Bridger Formation), Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)
• "approximately 1-m-thick horizon... about 4–5 m below Gazin’s (1965) Sugar White Layer"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; green mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by R. K. Stucky; reposited in the DMNH
Primary reference: M. Spaulding, J. J. Flynn, and R. K. Stucky. 2010. A new basal Carnivoramorphan (Mammalia) from the ‘Bridger B’ (Black’s Fork member, Bridger Formation, Bridgerian Nalma, middle Eocene) of Wyoming, USA. Palaeontology 53(4):815-832 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 129895: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 29.06.2012, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Orohippus sp. Marsh 1872 horse | |
Helaletes sp. Marsh 1872 odd-toed ungulate | |
Hyrachyus sp. Leidy 1871 odd-toed ungulate | |
Palaeosyops sp. Leidy 1870 brontothere | |
Dawsonicyon isami n. gen. n. sp.
Dawsonicyon isami n. gen. n. sp. Spaulding et al. 2010 placental | |
Sinopa sp. Leidy 1871 creodont | |
"Thinocyon mustelinus" = Thinocyon velox
"Thinocyon mustelinus" = Thinocyon velox Marsh 1872 creodont | |
Sciuravus nitidus Marsh 1871 rodent
Sciuravus metalinguas Anderson 2017 rodent | |
Omomys carteri Leidy 1869 tarsier | |
Smilodectes gracilis Marsh 1871 primate | |
Hyopsodus sp. Leidy 1870 condylarth |