Chloride Cliffs, southeast (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as CIT 10239

Where: Inyo County, California (36.7° N, 116.8° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 109.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Titus Canyon Formation, Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Miller (1945:316) thought the type locality might possibly be no earlier than Late Pliocene in age, but the Titus Canyon Formation is now considered Late Eocene.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. R. Miller. 1945. Four new species of fossil cyprinodont fishes from eastern California. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences 35(10):315-321 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 204522: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 10.09.2019

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Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Cyprinodontiformes - Cyprinodontidae
Cyprinodon breviradius n. sp. Miller 1945
 Cyprinodontiformes - Fundulidae
Fundulus curryi n. sp. Miller 1945