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Mammals
The only articulated mammals usually
found at Green River are the bats (
207
)
and these are very rare. However, in
2003 a complete skeleton of the small
horse,
Hyracotherium
(
208, 209
), was
discovered by Jim Tynsky (see Appendix:
Site visits). A diverse mammal fauna is
known from teeth and disarticulated
bones, including squirrel-like rodents,
(now confined to tropical oceans),
galliforms (grouse and pheasants),
anseriforms (waterfowl), coraciiforms
(small perching birds such as kingfishers
and rollers), and gruiforms (cranes
and rails). The long-legged, shoreline
waterfowl,
Presbyornis
, is one of the most
common and probably made most of the
bird trackways at the edge of the lake (see
Trace fossils below).
207
207 The bat Icaronycteris
cast in FBNM; original in
YPM. Length 13 cm 5 in.
208
208 The early horse
HyracotheriumTFSK. Length
60 cm 2 ft head to toe.
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