Dawn of the Age of Mammals in the northern part of the Rocky Mountain Interior, North America

Geology, vertebrate fauna, and paleoecology of the Buck Spring Quarries (early Eocene, Wind River Formation), Wyoming
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Published:January 01, 1990
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Richard K. Stucky, Leonard Krishtalka, Andrew D. Redline, 1990. "Geology, vertebrate fauna, and paleoecology of the Buck Spring Quarries (early Eocene, Wind River Formation), Wyoming", Dawn of the Age of Mammals in the northern part of the Rocky Mountain Interior, North America, Thomas M. Bown, Kenneth D. Rose
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The Buck Spring Quarries, located in the southern part of the type area of the Lost Cabin Member of the Wind River Formation, Wind River Basin, Wyoming, provide one of the richest assemblages of fossil vertebrates known from the latest Wasatchian Land-Mammal Age (ca. 50.5 Ma, Lostcabinian, early Eocene) of North America. More than 100 species of mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians, and fishes are known. The quarries uniquely preserve associated skeletal remains, and complete skulls and dentitions of a large percentage of the vertebrates. The fossils come from a 2-m-thick sequence, which is composed primarily of mudstones, bioturbated limestone lenses,...
- Amphibia
- assemblages
- Aves
- biogenic structures
- biostratigraphy
- bioturbation
- carbonate rocks
- Cenozoic
- Chordata
- clastic rocks
- coprolites
- Eocene
- jaws
- laminations
- limestone
- lower Eocene
- Mammalia
- mudstone
- North America
- paleoecology
- paleoenvironment
- Paleogene
- paludal environment
- Pisces
- planar bedding structures
- remote sensing
- Reptilia
- sedimentary rocks
- sedimentary structures
- skull
- species diversity
- stratigraphy
- terrestrial environment
- Tertiary
- Tetrapoda
- United States
- Vertebrata
- Wasatchian
- Western Interior
- Wind River basin
- Wind River Formation
- Wyoming
- Lost Cabin Member
- Buck Spring Quarries