scholarly journals Mammals from the earliest Uintan (middle Eocene) Turtle Bluff Member, Bridger Formation, southwestern Wyoming, USA, Part 1: Primates and Rodentia

10.26879/586 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Kelly ◽  
Paul Murphey
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Bridger Formation

Paleontology and stratigraphy of Middle Eocene rock units in the southern Green River and Uinta Basins, Wyoming and Utah

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Murphey ◽  
K.E. Townsend ◽  
Anthony Friscia ◽  
James Westgate ◽  
Emmett Evanoff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Green River Basin ◽  
Green River ◽  
Scientific Exploration ◽  
History Of ◽  
Climatic History ◽  
Field Excursion ◽  
Land Mammal ◽  
Bridger Formation

The Bridger Formation is restricted to the Green River Basin in southwest Wyoming, and the Uinta and Duchesne River Formations are located in the Uinta Basin in Utah. These three rock units and their diverse fossil assemblages are of great scientific importance and historic interest to vertebrate paleontologists. Notably, they are also the stratotypes from oldest to youngest for the three middle Eocene North American Land Mammal Ages—the Bridgerian, Uintan, and Duchesnean. The fossils and sediments of these formations provide a critically important record of biotic, environmental, and climatic history spanning approximately 10 million years (49 to 39 Ma). This article provides a detailed field excursion through portions of the Green River and Uinta Basins that focuses on locations of geologic, paleontologic, and historical interest. In support of the field excursion, we also provide a review of current knowledge of these formations with emphasis on lithostratigraphy, biochronology, depositional, and paleoenvironmental history, and the history of scientific exploration.

Herpetofauna of the Calf Creek Local Fauna (Lower Oligocene: Cypress Hills Formation) of Saskatchewan

1972 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1612-1631 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Alan Holman
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Tropical Climate ◽  
Local Fauna ◽  
Lower Oligocene ◽  
Bridger Formation

A Lower Oligocene deposit, the Calf Creek local fauna of the Cypress Hills Formation, near Eastend, Saskatchewan, yielded the remains of one salamander, three anurans, three turtles, a crocodilian, six lizards, and three snakes. All of the 13 herpetological families identified are extant. The four amphibian genera identified are extant, but only two of nine reptilian genera identified are living today. One genus and species and one species of iguanid lizard, one species of xantusiid lizard, and one species of small boid snake are described as new. The Calf Creek local fauna herpetofauna indicates a subtropical or tropical climate. The herpetofauna of the Calf Creek local fauna shows several differences from the herpetofauna of the Middle Eocene Tabernacle Butte local fauna of the Bridger Formation of Wyoming.

scholarly journals Paleontology and stratigraphy of Middle Eocene rock units in the southern Green River and Uinta Basins, Wyoming and Utah

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 1-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul C. Murphey ◽  
K.E. Beth Townsend ◽  
Anthony R. Friscia ◽  
James Westgate ◽  
Emmett Evanoff ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Green River Basin ◽  
Green River ◽  
Scientific Exploration ◽  
History Of ◽  
Climatic History ◽  
Field Excursion ◽  
Land Mammal ◽  
Bridger Formation

The Bridger Formation is restricted to the Green River Basin in southwest Wyoming, and the Uinta and Duchesne River Formations are located in the Uinta Basin in Utah. These three rock units and their diverse fossil assemblages are of great scientific importance and historic interest to vertebrate paleontologists. Notably, they are also the stratotypes from oldest to youngest for the three middle Eocene North American Land Mammal Ages—the Bridgerian, Uintan, and Duchesnean. The fossils and sediments of these formations provide a critically important record of biotic, environmental, and climatic history spanning approximately 10 million years (49 to 39 Ma). This article provides a detailed field excursion through portions of the Green River and Uinta Basins that focuses on locations of geologic, paleontologic, and historical interest. In support of the field excursion, we also provide a review of current knowledge of these formations with emphasis on lithostratigraphy, biochronology, depositional, and paleoenvironmental history, and the history of scientific exploration.

Holotype snout elements of Saniwa ensidens reassigned to cf. Restes sp. indet (Xenosauridae)

2003 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 393-396
Author(s):  
Michael W. Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
Field Season ◽  
Bridger Formation ◽  
Sweetwater County

During the field season of 1870, F. V. Hayden collected a number of sandstone blocks that contained the remains of a large fossil lizard (Middle Eocene Bridger Formation, Sweetwater County, Wyoming). Though mostly unprepared, the visible bones were described by Leidy (1870) as Saniwa ensidens (USNM 2185; holotype). Fifty years later all the blocks associated with USNM 2185 were prepared prior to Gilmore's (1922) more complete description of Saniwa ensidens and his assignment of the taxon to the Varanoidea. Gilmore (1922) notes that the skeletal remains in the blocks were partially disarticulated to dissociated despite the excellent articulation of some components (e.g., palatal elements and right and left maxillary fragments [Gilmore, 1922, p. 809; pl. 1). Gilmore (1928) altered the diagnosis of Saniwa ensidens (USNM 2185) by adding characterizations of a premaxilla, right and left anterior maxillary fragments, and anterior tips of the dentaries. Gilmore (1928, p. 57) stated that these missing elements were found after further preparation of the blocks when the type specimen was mounted for display.

Taphonomy of turtles in the Middle Eocene Bridger Formation, SW Wyoming

2000 ◽  
Vol 162 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 171-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard R Brand ◽  
H.Thomas Goodwin ◽  
Peter D Ambrose ◽  
H.Paul Buchheim
Keyword(s):  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Bridger Formation
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