Mint Canyon (CIT 100) (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.5° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 114.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: 16 Member (Mint Canyon Formation), Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; gray, sandy, conglomeratic siltstone

• Siltstone, sandy to pebbly, gray; forms fluted cliffs and badlands with scanty vertebrate remains (C.I.T. Loc. 100)

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 19439: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet.
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
CIT 127; locality from LACM online catalog
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion cf. forcei1, Equini indet.1
Hipparion cf. forcei1 Richey 1948 hipparionine horse
"Hipparion ? near mohavense Merriam"
Equini indet.1 Quinn 1955 horse
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canidae indet.2
Canidae indet.2 Fischer de Waldheim 1817 canid
CIT 125; locality from LACM online catalog
1Alroy 2002; 2Stirton 1933