Brown's Canyon (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 114.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Monterey Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; yellow sandstone

• pale yellowish sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. S. Jordan. 1919. Fossil fishes from the Soledad deposits of Southern California. Leland Stanford Junior University, University Series 3-12 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 186006: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.06.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Ganolytes cameo Jordan 1919 herring
Etringus scintillans Jordan 1907 herring
 Beloniformes - Forficidae
Rhomurus fulcratus Jordan 1919
 Scombriformes - Scombridae
Cobitopsidae
  - Cobitopsidae
"Rogenites bowersi" = Rogenio bowersi
"Rogenites bowersi" = Rogenio bowersi Jordan 1907