Millersville (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
Primary reference: C. L. Gazin. 1976. Mammalian Faunal Zones of the Bridger Middle Eocene. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 26:1-25 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 16284: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Roger Benson, Evangelos Vlachos and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• type of Microparamys minutus may be from Millersville Bridger B: see Wood 1962
Show authors, comments, and common names
| Aves | |
|
| |
| Reptilia | |
"Chrysemys wyomingensis" = Emys wyomingensis5
| |
| Mammalia | |
|
Stylinodon mirus10 Marsh 1874 taeniodont "near Millersville"; Gazin asserts that the type locality is unknown
| |
|
| |
Tillodon fodiens n. sp.
| |
|
Hyopsodus minusculus Leidy 1873 condylarth | |
|
Harpagolestes macrocephalus15 Wortman 1901 condylarth referred specimen "near Millersville" in Bridger B also discussed by Thorpe 1923a
| |
|
| |
|
| |
"Miacis hargeri" = Vulpavus hargeri, Oodectes herpestoides
| |
Orohippus major n. sp.
| |
|
"Palaeosyops paludosus" = Palaeosyops paludosus8 Leidy 1870 brontothere from Bridger B; said in figure caption to be from B1 at "Little Dry Creek"
| |
|
"Hyrachyus modestus" = Hyrachyus modestus16 Leidy 1870 odd-toed ungulate Bridger B; includes "Metahyrachyus bicornutus" type of Troxell 1922d from "Millersville, near Fort Bridger"; B1 and B2 specimens are described by Wood 1934
| |
|
Antiacodon pygmaeus15 Cope 1872 even-toed ungulate Bridger B; additional specimen from "Lower Bridge" near Millersville is assigned to Microsus by Walsh 2000
Microsus cuspidatus15 Leidy 1870 even-toed ungulate "opposite Millersville" in Bridger B; also includes his "Antiacodon venustus" according to Walsh 2000
| |
|
Sciuravus bridgeri n. sp. Wilson 1938 rodent from "Miller's Ranch? (or Millersville)": see Wilson 1938a
| |
|
| |
"Aphanolemur gibossus n. sp." = Smilodectes, "Notharctus tenebrosus" = Notharctus tenebrosus9, "Notharctus pugnax n. sp." = Notharctus tenebrosus3
"Notharctus tenebrosus" = Notharctus tenebrosus9 Leidy 1870 primate Bridger B; smaller group of specimens in chart, see also Gingerich 1979a
"Notharctus pugnax n. sp." = Notharctus tenebrosus3 Leidy 1870 primate from lower Bridger at Millersville, referred specimen from B2; see also Gingerich 1979a
| |
|
Washakius insignis2 Leidy 1873 tarsier "low in B, not far from the confluence of Black's Fork and Smith's Fork" (i.e., at Millersville)
| |
"Peratherium innominatum n. sp." = Herpetotherium innominatum
"Peratherium innominatum n. sp." = Herpetotherium innominatum Simpson 1928 marsupial see Troxell 1923e, Simpson 1928b, Krishtalka and Stucky 1983a
| |
| Baptemys wyomingensis | |
|
Baptemys wyomingensis6 Leidy 1870 YPM 484: crusht carapace and a complete plastron ftext-fig. 338), the nearly complete skull (plate 37, figs. 11, 12, 13), and portions of limb bones (collected 1870)
| |
1Dawson 1961; 2Gazin 1958; 3Granger and Gregory 1917; 4Gunnell and Yarborough 2000; 5Hay 1904; 6Hay 1908; 7Matthew 1909; 8Osborn 1929; 9Robinson 1957; 10Schoch and Lucas 1981; 11Shufeldt 1915; 12Thorpe 1923; 13West 1973; 14West 1979; 15West 1984; 16Wood 1934; 17Wood 1962