Mint Canyon (CIT 97) (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.5° N, 118.5° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 114.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mint Canyon Formation, Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

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 19437: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• shown at the top of the Mint Canyon section by Whistler 1984, but not in area mapped by Jahns 1940
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
? Nannippus sp. Matthew 1926 hipparionine horse
JA pers. obs. 4.1.95: "Merychippus sp."; "?Nannippus sp." of Stirton 1933; damaged M3