Mint Canyon (UCMP 3564) (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: lower 14 Member (Mint Canyon Formation), Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: fluvial; fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, gray, green, yellow siltstone

• Siltstone, fine-grained, yellowish to greenish gray, locally rich in vertebrate fossils (Univ. of Calif. Loc. 3564)

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

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparion sp.
Hipparion sp. de Christol 1832 hipparionine horse
JA pers. obs. 26.5.94: "Hipparion ? sp. A"; UCMP 30048