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Bridger Formation, the Glossary

The Bridger Formation is a geologic formation in southwestern Wyoming.^[1]

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Bridgerian
Lutetian Stage
Paleogene geology of Wyoming

Achaenodon

Achaenodon is an extinct artiodactyl mammal, possibly belonging to the family Helohyidae.

Allognathosuchus

Allognathosuchus (meaning "other jaw crocodile") is an extinct genus of alligatorine crocodylian with a complicated taxonomic history.

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Amia (fish)

Amia, commonly called bowfin, is a genus of ray-finned fish related to gars in the infraclass Holostei.

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Anguidae

Anguidae refers to a large and diverse family of lizards native to the Northern Hemisphere.

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Anosteira

Anosteira is an extinct genus of carettochelyid turtle from the Eocene to the Oligocene of Asia and North America.

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Apalone

Apalone is a genus of turtles in the family Trionychidae.

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Apatemys

Apatemys is a member of the family Apatemyidae, an extinct group of small and insectivorous placental mammals that lived in the Paleogene of North America, India, and Europe.

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Arapaho

The Arapaho (Arapahos, Gens de Vache) are a Native American people historically living on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming.

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Axestemys

Axestemys is an extinct genus of softshell turtle that lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Eocene in western North America and Europe.

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Baena (turtle)

Baena is an extinct genus of baenid turtles.

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Baenidae is an extinct family of paracryptodiran turtles known from the Early Cretaceous to Eocene of North America. While during the Early Cretaceous they are found across North America, during the Late Cretaceous they are only found in Laramidia, having disappeared from Appalachia. The majority of lineages survived the K-Pg Extinction, but the family was extinct by the latest Eocene.

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Bannock people

Map of lands traditionally inhabited by the Bannock The Bannock tribe (Pannakwatɨ) were originally Northern Paiute but are more culturally affiliated with the Northern Shoshone.

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Bathyopsis

Bathyopsis is an extinct genus of uintathere.

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Blacks Fork

Blacks Fork (also referred to as Blacks Fork of the Green River) is a U.S. Geological Survey.

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Boavus

Boavus is an extinct genus of boa known primarily from Eocene-aged strata of North America.

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Boidae

The Boidae, commonly known as boas or boids, are a family of nonvenomous snakes primarily found in the Americas, as well as Africa, Europe, Asia, and some Pacific islands.

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Bone Wars

The Bone Wars, also known as the Great Dinosaur Rush, was a period of intense and ruthlessly competitive fossil hunting and discovery during the Gilded Age of American history, marked by a heated rivalry between Edward Drinker Cope (of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) and Othniel Charles Marsh (of the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale).

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Borealosuchus

Borealosuchus (meaning "boreal crocodile") is an extinct genus of crocodyliforms that lived from the Late Cretaceous to the Eocene in North America.

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Boverisuchus

Boverisuchus is an extinct genus of planocraniid crocodyliforms known from the middle Eocene (Lutetian stage) of Germany and western North America.

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Brachyuranochampsa

Brachyuranochampsa is an extinct genus of crocodilian.

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Bridger Wilderness

The Bridger Wilderness is located in Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming, United States.

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Bridgerian North American Stage

The Bridgerian North American Stage on the geologic timescale is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology (NALMA), typically set from 50,300,000 to 46,200,000 years BP lasting. Bridger Formation and Bridgerian North American Stage are Bridgerian.

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Carettochelyidae

Carettochelyidae is a family of cryptodiran turtles belonging to the Trionychia.

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Chameleon

Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 200 species described as of June 2015.

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Charles Lewis Gazin

Charles Lewis Gazin (1904—1995) was an American vertebrate paleontologist and paleobiologist.

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Cheyenne

The Cheyenne are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains.

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Chisternon

Chisternon is a genus of baenid turtles from the Eocene of North America.

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Crocodilia

Crocodilia (or Crocodylia, both) is an order of semiaquatic, predatory reptiles known as crocodilians.

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Crocodylus

Crocodylus is a genus of true crocodiles in the family Crocodylidae.

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Crow people

The Crow, whose autonym is Apsáalooke, also spelled Absaroka, are Native Americans living primarily in southern Montana.

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Dermatemydidae

The Dermatemydidae are a family of turtles.

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Eastern Shoshone

Eastern Shoshone are Shoshone who primarily live in Wyoming and in the northeast corner of the Great Basin where Utah, Idaho and Wyoming meet and are in the Great Basin classification of Indigenous People.

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Echmatemys

Echmatemys is an extinct genus of geoemydid turtle from the Eocene of North America.

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Edward Drinker Cope

Edward Drinker Cope (July 28, 1840 – April 12, 1897) was an American zoologist, paleontologist, comparative anatomist, herpetologist, and ichthyologist.

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Emydidae

Emydidae (Latin emys (freshwater tortoise) + Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos, “appearance, resemblance”)) is a family of testudines (turtles) that includes close to 50 species in 10 genera.

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Emys

Emys is a small genus within the family Emydidae.

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Eobasileus

Eobasileus cornutus ("horned dawn-king") was a prehistoric species of dinocerate mammal.

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Eotitanops

Eotitanops ('dawn titan-face') is an extinct genus of brontothere native to North America and Asia.

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Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden

Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (September 7, 1829 – December 22, 1887) was an American geologist noted for his pioneering surveying expeditions of the Rocky Mountains in the late 19th century.

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Fort Bridger

Fort Bridger was originally a 19th-century fur trading outpost established in 1842, on Blacks Fork of the Green River, in what is now Uinta County, Wyoming, United States.

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Fort Bridger Treaty Council of 1868

This Fort Bridger Treaty Council of 1868, was also known as the Great Treaty Council, was a council that developed the Fort Bridger Treaty of 1868 (also Shoshone Bannock Treaty).

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Fort Hall Indian Reservation

The Fort Hall Reservation is a Native American reservation of the federally recognized Shoshone-Bannock Tribes (Shoshoni language: Pohoko’ikkatee) in the U.S. state of Idaho.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Fremont County, Wyoming

Fremont County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming.

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Geoemydidae

The Geoemydidae (formerly known as Bataguridae) are one of the largest and most diverse families in the order Testudines (turtles), with about 70 species.

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Geologic time scale

The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth.

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Geological formation

A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).

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Glyptosaurinae

Glyptosaurinae is an extinct subfamily of anguid lizards that lived in the Northern Hemisphere during the Late Cretaceous and the Paleogene.

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Green River Formation

The Green River Formation is an Eocene geologic formation that records the sedimentation in a group of intermountain lakes in three basins along the present-day Green River in Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah. Bridger Formation and Green River Formation are Paleogene geology of Wyoming.

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Gruiformes

The Gruiformes are an order containing a considerable number of living and extinct bird families, with a widespread geographical diversity.

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Hadrianus (turtle)

Hadrianus is an extinct genus of tortoise belonging to the Testudinidae found in the United States, the Yolomécatl Formation of Mexico, the Alai Beds of Kyrgyzstan and Spain and believed to be the oldest true tortoise known.

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Harpagolestes

Harpagolestes ("hooked thief") is an extinct genus of hyena like, bear sized mesonychid mesonychian that lived in Central and Eastern Asia and western and central North America during the middle to late Eocene.

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Helaletes

Helaletes is a genus of an extinct perissodactyls closely related to tapirs.

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Henry Fairfield Osborn

Henry Fairfield Osborn, Sr. (August 8, 1857 – November 6, 1935) was an American paleontologist, geologist and eugenics advocate.

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Henrys Fork (Green River tributary)

Henrys Fork is a long tributary of the Green River in Utah and Wyoming.

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Herpetotheriidae

Herpetotheriidae is an extinct family of metatherians, closely related to marsupials.

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Herpetotherium

Herpetotherium is an extinct genus of metatherian mammal, belonging to the possibly paraphyletic family Herpetotheriidae.

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Hot Springs County, Wyoming

Hot Springs County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming.

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Howard Stansbury

Howard Stansbury (February 8, 1806 – April 17, 1863) was a major in the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers.

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Hyopsodus

Hyopsodus is a genus of extinct early ungulate mammal of the family Hyopsodontidae, a group associated with or basal to the Perissodactyla.

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Hyrachyus

Hyrachyus (from Hyrax and ὗς "pig") is an extinct genus of perissodactyl mammal that lived in Eocene Europe, North America, and Asia.

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Jim Bridger

James Felix Bridger (March 17, 1804 – July 17, 1881) was an American mountain man, trapper, Army scout, and wilderness guide who explored and trapped in the Western United States in the first half of the 19th century.

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Joseph Leidy

Joseph Mellick Leidy (September 9, 1823 – April 30, 1891) was an American paleontologist, parasitologist and anatomist.

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Lepisosteus

Lepisosteus is a genus of gars in the family Lepisosteidae.

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Limnocyon

Limnocyon ("swamp dog") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of limnocyonid hyaenodonts that lived in North America during the middle Eocene.

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List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Wyoming

This article contains a list of fossil-bearing stratigraphic units in the state of Wyoming, U.S.

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Louis Agassiz

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz FRS (For) FRSE (May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history.

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Louis Vasquez

Pierre Louis Vasquez also known as Luis Vázquez (October 3, 1798 – September 5, 1868) was a mountain man and trader.

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Machaeroides

Machaeroides ("dagger-like") is an extinct genus of sabre-toothed predatory placental mammals from extinct subfamily Machaeroidinae within extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived in North America (Wyoming) from the early to middle Eocene. Bridger Formation and Machaeroides are Paleogene geology of Wyoming.

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Marker horizon

Marker horizons (also referred to as chronohorizons, key beds or marker beds) are stratigraphic units of the same age and of such distinctive composition and appearance, that, despite their presence in separate geographic locations, there is no doubt about their being of equivalent age (isochronous) and of common origin.

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Mesatirhinus

Mesatirhinus is a genus of brontothere endemic to North America during the Eocene living from 50.3 to 42 mya, existing for approximately.

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Mesonyx

Mesonyx ("middle claw") is a genus of extinct mesonychid mesonychian mammal.

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Metacheiromys ("next to Cheiromys") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct paraphyletic subfamily Metacheiromyinae within extinct paraphyletic family Metacheiromyidae in extinct order Palaeanodonta, that lived in North America (what is now Wyoming) from the early to middle Eocene.

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Miacis

Miacis ("small point") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.

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Microsyops

Microsyops is a plesiadapiform primate found in Middle Eocene in North America. Bridger Formation and Microsyops are Bridgerian.

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Minerva (bird)

Minerva is an extinct genus of owls in the prehistoric family Protostrigidae from the Eocene of North America.

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Miocyon

Miocyon ("lesser dog") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to late Eocene.

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North American land mammal age

The North American land mammal ages (NALMA) establishes a geologic timescale for North American fauna beginning during the Late Cretaceous and continuing through to the present.

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Notharctus

Notharctus is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in North America and Europe during the late to middle Eocene. Bridger Formation and Notharctus are Bridgerian.

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Notharctus tenebrosus

Notharctus tenebrosus was an early primate from the early Eocene, some 54–38 million years ago.

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Omomyidae

Omomyidae is a group of early primates that radiated during the Eocene epoch between about (mya).

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Oodectes

Oodectes ("egg biter") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.

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Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail was a east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon Territory.

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Orohippus

Orohippus (from the Greek ὄρος, 'mountain' and ἵππος, 'horse') is an extinct equid that lived in the Eocene (about 50 million years ago).

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Othniel Charles Marsh

Othniel Charles Marsh (October 29, 1831 – March 18, 1899) was an American professor of Paleontology in Yale College and President of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Owl

Owls are birds from the order Strigiformes, which includes over 200 species of mostly solitary and nocturnal birds of prey typified by an upright stance, a large, broad head, binocular vision, binaural hearing, sharp talons, and feathers adapted for silent flight.

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Palaearctonyx

Palaearctonyx ("ancient bear's claw") is an extinct genus of omnivorous placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.

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Palaeosyops

Palaeosyops (Greek: "old" (paleos), "boar" (kapros), "face" (ops)) is a genus of small brontothere which lived during the early to middle Eocene.

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Paleogene

The Paleogene Period (also spelled Palaeogene or Palæogene) is a geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Neogene Period Ma.

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Paleontology in Wyoming

Paleontology in Wyoming includes research into the prehistoric life of the U.S. state of Wyoming as well as investigations conducted by Wyomingite researchers and institutions into ancient life occurring elsewhere.

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Paramys

Paramys is an extinct genus of rodents from North America, Europe, and Asia.

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Patriofelis

Patriofelis ("father of cats") is an extinct genus of large, cat-like predatory placental mammals from extinct subfamily Oxyaeninae within extinct family Oxyaenidae, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.

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Peradectes

Peradectes is an extinct genus of small metatherian mammals known from the latest CretaceousKorth, W. W. (2008).

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Peradectidae

Peradectidae is a family of small metatherian mammals, spanning from the Paleocene (or possibly Latest Cretaceous) to the Miocene.

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Peratherium

Peratherium is a genus of metatherian mammals in the family Herpetotheriidae that lived in Europe and Africa from the Early Eocene to the Early Miocene.

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Phareodus

Phareodus is a genus of freshwater fish from the Paleocene to the Eocene of Australia, Europe and North and South America.

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Prolimnocyon

Prolimnocyon ("before Limnocyon") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of limnocyonid hyaenodonts that lived in Asia and North America during the late Paleocene to middle Eocene.

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Proviverra

Proviverra ("before civet") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct family Proviverridae within extinct superfamily Hyaenodontoidea (in extinct order Hyaenodonta), that lived during the Middle Eocene in Europe.

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Pseudotomus

Pseudotomus is an extinct genus of rodent from North America.

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Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.

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Rhineuridae

Rhineuridae is a family of amphisbaenians (commonly called worm lizards) that includes one living genus and species, Rhineura floridana, as well as many extinct species belonging to both Rhineura and several extinct genera.

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Sage Creek Formation

The Sage Creek Formation is a geologic formation in Montana.

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Saniwa

Saniwa is an extinct genus of varanid lizard that lived during the Eocene epoch.

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Sciuromorpha

Sciuromorpha ('squirrel-like') is a rodent clade that includes several rodent families.

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Sinopa

Sinopa ("swift fox") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct family Sinopidae within extinct order Hyaenodonta, that lived in North America and Asia from the early to middle Eocene.

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Sioux

The Sioux or Oceti Sakowin (Dakota/Lakota: Očhéthi Šakówiŋ /oˈtʃʰeːtʰi ʃaˈkoːwĩ/) are groups of Native American tribes and First Nations people from the Great Plains of North America.

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Smilodectes

Smilodectes is a genus of adapiform primate that lived in North America during the middle Eocene. Bridger Formation and Smilodectes are Bridgerian.

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Spathorhynchus

Spathorhynchus is an extinct genus of amphisbaenians or worm lizards that existed from the Middle Eocene to the Early Oligocene in what is now Wyoming.

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Stratigraphic unit

A stratigraphic unit is a volume of rock of identifiable origin and relative age range that is defined by the distinctive and dominant, easily mapped and recognizable petrographic, lithologic or paleontologic features (facies) that characterize it.

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Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Sweetwater County is a county in southwestern Wyoming, United States.

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Synoplotherium

Synoplotherium (synonym Dromocyon) is an extinct genus of relatively small, wolf-like mesonychids that lived 50 million years ago, in what is now Wyoming.

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Teiidae

Teiidae is a family of Lacertoidean lizards native to the Americas.

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Telmatherium

Telmatherium is a genus of a North American Brontothere.

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Tortoise

Tortoises are reptiles of the family Testudinidae of the order Testudines (Latin for "tortoise").

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Trionychidae

The Trionychidae are a taxonomic family of a number of turtle genera, commonly known as softshell turtles.

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Trionyx

Trionyx is a genus of softshell turtles belonging to the family Trionychidae.

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Tritemnodon

Tritemnodon ("three cutting teeth") was an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct order Hyaenodonta, that lived in North America during the early Eocene.

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Trogosus

Trogosus is an extinct genus of tillodont mammal.

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Uinta County, Wyoming

Uinta County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming.

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Uinta Formation

The Uinta Formation is a geologic formation in northeastern Utah.

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Uintacyon

Uintacyon ("dog of the Uinta Mountains") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.

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Uintan

The Uintan North American Stage on the geologic timescale is the North American faunal stage according to the North American Land Mammal Ages chronology (NALMA), typically set from 46,200,000 to 42,000,000 years BP lasting.

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Uintasorex

Uintasorex is a genus of primate which lived in North America during the Eocene epoch.

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Uintatherium

Uintatherium ("Beast of the Uinta Mountains") is an extinct genus of herbivorous dinoceratan mammal that lived during the Eocene epoch.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Army Corps of Topographical Engineers

The U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers was a branch of the United States Army authorized on 4 July 1838.

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United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories

The United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories was established by an act of Congress on 2 March 1867 as an agency under the Department of the Interior (later the United States General Land Office) tasked to complete a geographical survey of the State of Nebraska which had been admitted to the Union the day before.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn or UPenn, is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Ute people

Ute are the indigenous, or Native American people, of the Ute tribe and culture among the Indigenous peoples of the Great Basin.

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Varanidae

The Varanidae are a family of lizards in the superfamily Varanoidea and order Anguimorpha.

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Viverravus

Viverravus ("ancestor of Viverra") is an extinct genus of placental mammals from extinct subfamily Viverravinae within extinct family Viverravidae, that lived in North America, Europe and Asia from the middle Paleocene to middle Eocene.

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Vulpavus

Vulpavus ("ancestor of foxes") is an extinct paraphyletic genus of placental mammals from clade Carnivoraformes, that lived in North America from the early to middle Eocene.

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Walter W. Granger

Walter Willis Granger (November 7, 1872 – September 6, 1941) was an American vertebrate paleontologist who participated in important fossil explorations in the United States, Egypt, China and Mongolia.

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William Berryman Scott

William Berryman Scott (February 12, 1858 – March 29, 1947) was an American vertebrate paleontologist, authority on mammals, and principal author of the White River Oligocene monographs.

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William Diller Matthew

William Diller Matthew FRS (February 19, 1871 – September 24, 1930) was a vertebrate paleontologist who worked primarily on mammal fossils, although he also published a few early papers on mineralogy, petrological geology, one on botany, one on trilobites, and he described Tetraceratops insignis, which was much later suggested to be the oldest known (Early Permian) therapsid.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridger_Formation

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Bridger Formation, the Glossary

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See also

Bridgerian

Lutetian Stage

Paleogene geology of Wyoming

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