Mint Canyon (CIT 101) (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.5° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 114.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: 24 Member (Mint Canyon Formation), Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; brown, red, argillaceous siltstone and lithified, brown sandstone

• Siltstone and clay, brown, tan, and pinkish, with flaggy interbeds of hard brown sandstone; scattered vertebrate remains (C.I.T. Loc.101)

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 19440: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.07.1994, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Show authors, comments, and common names
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion cf. forcei
Hipparion cf. forcei Richey 1948 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet.
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel