Iron Canyon Site
The Iron Canyon Site is a Miocene assemblage of vertebrate fossils located in Kern County, California within the Dove Spring Formation dating from ~23.03—5.33 Ma.[1]
Specimens located[]
Proboscidea (Gomphotheriidae)
Rhinocerotidae
- Peraceras
- Serbelodon S. burnhami
Equidae
- Dinohippus
- Pliohippus P. tantalus
- Megahippus M. matthewi
Amphicyonidae
- Ischyrocyon I. mohavensis
Canidae
- Epicyon E. saevus
Artiodactyla
- A. chasseae
- Paracosoryx P. furlongi
- Merychyus
Lipotyphla
Lagomorpha
Rodentia
- Thomomys
- C. avawatzensis, C. tertius
- Perognathus P. minutus
- Geomyidae
- Eucastor
- C. dentalis, C. longidens, C. russelli
References[]
- David P. Whistler and Douglas P. Burbank, Miocene biostratigraphy and biochronology of the Dove Spring Formation, Mojave Desert, California, and characterization of the Clarendonian mammal age (late Miocene) in California.Website
Categories:
- Miocene California
- Miocene paleontological sites of North America
- Geology of Kern County, California
- Paleontology in California