Pine Canyon (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.9° N, 120.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 37.3° N, 114.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• clay shale

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. S. Jordan and J. Z. Gilbert. 1919. Fossil Fishes of the Miocene (Monterey) Formations. Leland Stanford Junior University Publications, University Series 13-60 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 186023: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 06.06.2017

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Beloniformes - Forficidae
Forfex hypuralis n. gen. n. sp.
Forfex hypuralis n. gen. n. sp. Jordan and Gilbert 1919