Moore's Canyon (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.4° N, 114.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

Environment/lithology: marine; white sandstone

• soft, fine, white 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 186007: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.06.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Stomiatiformes - Gonostomatidae
"Rogenio solitudinis" = Cyclothone solitudinis
"Rogenio solitudinis" = Cyclothone solitudinis Jordan 1907
 Clupeiformes - Clupeoidei
Etringus scintillans Jordan 1907 herring