UCMP V96246 Farson Cutoff Fishbed (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Sweetwater County, Wyoming (42.1° N, 109.5° W: paleocoordinates 46.0° N, 95.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "within the stratigraphic interval referred to as the Black's Fork Member by Wood (1934). This interval represents the lower Bridger Formation, also referred to by Matthew (1909) as Bridger horizons A and B."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siltstone

• The fossiliferous horizon is formed by a 25.4 to 38.1 cm thick ... light-brown siltstone intercalated between two green mudstones

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

• material was found both in situ and through surface collection

Primary reference: J. D. Divay and A. M. Murray. 2016. The fishes of the Farson Cutoff Fishbed, Bridger Formation (Eocene), greater Green River Basin, Wyoming, U. S. A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(6):e1212867 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 182921: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 28.11.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteidae indet.
Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825 gar
 Siluriformes - Ictaluridae
Astephus sp.
Astephus sp. Cope 1873 catfish
 Osteoglossiformes - Osteoglossidae
Phareodus sp.
Phareodus sp. Leidy 1873 arowana