Birch Creek (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (41.7° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 95.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Bridger Formation, Bridgerian (50.3 - 46.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: 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]more details

PaleoDB collection 16133: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993

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Taxonomic list

• not shown on map of West 1976a; there is a Birch Creek in Sweetwater County but not in Uinta County
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Helohyidae
Helohyus plicodon Marsh 1872 even-toed ungulate