Mint Canyon (CIT 99) (Miocene to of the United States)
Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.5° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 115.0° W)
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When: Mint Canyon Formation, Middle Miocene to Middle Miocene (16.0 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, brown, gray, sandy siltstone
• Siltstone, tan to gray, sandy, blocky; blocks exfoliate, then crumble to soily masses; irregularly fossiliferous (C.I.T. Loc. 99)
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. H. Maxson. 1930. A Tertiary mammalian fauna from the Mint Canyon Formation of Southern California. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 404(7):77-112 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 192333: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 23.03.2018
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