Canyon Spring (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as LACM 7114

Where: Riverside County, California (33.5° N, 115.7° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° N, 109.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Diligencia Formation), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• said to be late Arikareean

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, yellow sandstone and conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: M. O. Woodburne and D. P. Whistler. 1973. An Early Miocene Oreodont (Merychyinae, Mammalia) from the Orocopia Mountains, Southern California. Journal of Paleontology 47(5):908-912 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 17765: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• basalts at base of fm. dated at 23.0 +/- 2.9, 20.6 +/- 8.9, and 19.1 +/- 1.9 Ma: Spittler and Arthur 1982; the last date has the most acceptable error
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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Merychyus cf. calaminthus
Merychyus cf. calaminthus Jahns 1940 oreodont