Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.5° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 110.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Tick Canyon Formation, Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; brown, red siltstone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. H. Jahns. 1940. Stratigraphy of the Easternmost Ventura Basin, California, with a Description of a New Lower Miocene Mammalian Fauna From the Tick Canyon Formation. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 514(9):145-194 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 17852: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•actually from "near the narrows of Vasquez Canyon" several miles to the west of Tick Canyon
•Tick Canyon, exact locality unknown: Stenomylus sp. Frick and Taylor 1968: "Stenomylinae indet." of Whistler 1967
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Miohierax stocki n. gen. n. sp.2
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| Mammalia | |
Parahippus maxsoni n. sp.
Parahippus maxsoni n. sp. Jahns 1940 anchitheriine horse | |
"Merychyus calaminthus n. sp." = Merychyus calaminthus, "Merychyus jahnsi n. sp." = Merychyus calaminthus4
"Merychyus calaminthus n. sp." = Merychyus calaminthus Jahns 1940 oreodont | |
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Miolabis californicus Maxson 1930 camel | |
Trogomys rupinimenthae n. sp.3
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Archaeolagus acaricolus n. sp.1
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