Copper Canyon, Murrieta (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Riverside County, California (33.5° N, 117.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.5° N, 116.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. C. Dooley, E. Scott, J. Green, K. B. Springer, B. S. Booley and G. J. Smith. 2019. Mammut pacificus sp. nov., a newly recognized species of mastodon from the Pleistocene of western North America. PeerJ 7:e6614 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 200320: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 28.03.2019

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae