Also known as LACM 3580
Where: Kern County, California (35.4° N, 118.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 116.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)
• "100m above the occurrence of the type in rocks of earliest Hemphillian age"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. MacConnell; reposited in the LACM
Primary reference: R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 188945: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 21.09.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Metalopex macconnelli Tedford et al. 2009 canine |