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: lower 14 Member (Mint Canyon Formation), Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, gray, green, yellow siltstone
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 19443: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse JA pers. obs. 26.5.94: "Hipparion ? sp. A"; UCMP 30048
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