East Hiawatha: Bridgerian, Colorado

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Miacidae
Miacidae indet. Cope 1880
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hyracotherium sp. Owen 1841
    = Equidae indet. Gray 1821
Alroy 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Colorado County:Moffat
Coordinates: 40.6° North, 108.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.4° North, 94.4° 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:Green River
Local section:Washa Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:NW 1/4 NW 1/4 sec 24 T 12 N R 99 W
this T/R block straddles the state line; sec 24 would be in the southern, Colorado half
near contact of Wilkins Peak Mbr. and Cathedral Bluffs Tongue; this could be lower than Cathedral Bluffs but the contact is time transgressive
Metadata
Database number:16215
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2934. H. W. Roehler. 1991. Revised stratigraphic nomenclature for the Wasatch and Green River formations of Eocene age, Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1506-B:B1-B38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]