The formation was named by American geologist Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden for Fort Bridger, which had itself been named for mountain man Jim Bridger. The...
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ISBN 1-84028-152-9. E. D. Cope (1872.) "Third account of new Vertebrata from the Bridger Eocene of Wyoming Territory." Proceedings of the American Philosophical...
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lower Bridger Formation at Grizzly Buttes, has been synonymized with another primitive crocodilian, "Crocodylus" affinis, also known from the Bridger Formation...
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in the Bridger Basin as well, both the lower Bridger and lower Washakie formations. Fossils of this species also occur in the Clarno Formation at John...
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of the formation. A. resimus Lundberg, 1975 is known only from a single incomplete neurocranium from the Early Eocene-aged Bridger Formation of Wyoming...
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genus. Fossils of Uintatherium were first discovered in the Bridger Basin near Fort Bridger by Lieutenant W. N. Wann in September 1870, and were later...
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have been found in Utah and Wyoming (Willwood Formation of Big Horn County and the Lower Bridger Formation of Uinta County). It was the size of a wolf....
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species Dawsonicyon isami are known from the ‘Bridger B’, site of Black’s Fork member of the Bridger Formation in Wyoming, and includes an almost complete...
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from the Eocene of Wyoming. Fossils were first described from the Bridger Formation by American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh in 1871. Marsh described...
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The Chandler Bridge Formation is a geologic formation in South Carolina. It preserves fossils dating back to the Chattian (Late Oligocene) of the Paleogene...
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Anosteira ornata Leidy, 1871 Bridger Formation, Wyoming, USA, Early Eocene Anosteira pulchra (Clark, 1932) Uinta Formation, Utah, USA, Middle Eocene (Lutetian)...
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Atractosteus atrox (category Green River Formation)
Butte deposits of the Green River Formation in Wyoming, US, in addition to a possible vertebra from the Bridger Formation. A close relative of the modern...
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A rock formation is an isolated, scenic, or spectacular surface rock outcrop. Rock formations are usually the result of weathering and erosion sculpting...
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The Danny Bridge Formation is a geologic formation in England. It preserves fossils dating back to the Carboniferous period. Earth sciences portal England...
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referred to Parasaniwa from the Lower Eocene Bridger Formation, but additional material from the Wasatch Formation instead suggests that this belongs to a...
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S2CID 84275253 Gunnell, G. F (1998), "Mammalian Fauna From the Lower Bridger Formation (Bridger A, Early Middle Eocene) of the Southern Green River Basin, Wyoming"...
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The Brandon Bridge Formation is a geologic formation in Wisconsin. It preserves fossils dating back to the Silurian period, including those of graptolites...
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incomplete humerus, scapula, sternum, and pelvis. It is from the Bridger Formation of Wyoming, which is of Middle Eocene age. In their 2002 paper, Gulas-Wroblewski...
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The Killey Bridge Formation is a geologic formation in Northern Ireland. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period. Earth sciences portal...
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Atractosteus simplex (category Green River Formation)
recovered from the Bridger Formation, which Leidy (1873) named A. simplex, a name he also used for the well-preserved Green River Formation gars. However,...
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CaringBridge Inc. is a charitable 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established in 1997 which allows people facing various medical conditions and their...
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Franklin L. Pearce, and George F. Sternberg at a locality in the Bridger Formation of Wyoming. These bones were sent to be studied by Alexander Wetmore...
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Colorado, USA (Denver Formation) †P. thomasii (Cope, 1872) - Early to Middle Eocene (Ypresian to Lutetian) of Wyoming, USA (Bridger Formation) †P. vegetus (Gilmore...
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weight of 1.33 to 13.97 kilograms. The type specimen was found in the Bridger formation in Uinta County, Wyoming, and existed 50.3 to 46.2 million years ago...
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Wroblewski (2003). "A Crown-group Galliform Bird from the Middle Eocene Bridger Formation of Wyoming". Palaeontology. 46 (6): 1269–1280. Bibcode:2003Palgy....
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The Martin Bridge Formation is a geologic formation in Idaho. It preserves fossils dating back to the Triassic period. Earth sciences portal Paleontology...
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the world's longest recorded span. Carved of limestone karst, the formation bridges Buliu River in the northern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China...
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The Spence Bridge Formation is a geologic formation in British Columbia. It preserves fossils dating back to the Cretaceous period. Earth sciences portal...
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epoch. It is known from well-preserved fossils found in the Bridger and Green River Formations of Wyoming, United States. The type species S. ensidens was...
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30(1):1-53 W. D. Matthew (1909.) "The Carnivora and Insectivora of the Bridger Basin, middle Eocene." Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History...
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