Wind River Basin, WY - July 2008

We pulled out in mid July the Coryphodon front leg that Robert Lee found and also collected some nice specimens in the Wind River in Wyoming.  The total summer’s work has resulted in narrowing down the stratigraphic interval to about 5 m between the late Wasatchian and the early Bridgerian.   A nice Patriofelis jaw was found as well as some definite Bridgerian animals such as Palaeosyops.  From the Wind River; nice primates, dinoceratans, horses, tapirs, titanotheres and other critters were found.  We saw but did not collect a whole new area that is Lostcabinian in age near Hiland.  Next year we will focus now on getting a great sample from the upper beds that are Bridgerian in age as well as look at the area near Moneta that has not been examined for about a decade. 

The July dig included Alan Brandt, Gloria Carbaugh, Lee Monens, Bryan and Lee Small, Robert Lee, and Hannah O’Neill.

Curator of Paleoecology & Evolution

Department of Earth Sciences
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
2001 Colorado Boulevard
Denver, Colorado 80205
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richard.stucky@dmns.org

Research Updates

• Master Field Notebook 2009
  Day 1 (6/15/09) By: Olivia Verma We are currently located in the Wind River Basin and the Wind River
• Excavation in the Sand Wash Basin, CO - August 2008
  Working in the Washakie Formation in the Sand Wash of Colorado during August 2008, we began the systematic
• Wind River Basin, WY - July 2008
  We pulled out in mid July the Coryphodon front leg that Robert Lee found and also collected some nice
• Bridger Basin & Wind River Basin, WY - June 2008
  We are back from the field. Thanks to everyone who had the opportunity to come out and work in the Bridger