Mint Canyon (CIT 97): Miocene, California

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Merychippus sp. Leidy 1856
JA pers. obs. 4.1.95: "Merychippus sp."; "?Nannippus sp." of Stirton 1933; damaged M3
    = ? Nannippus sp. Matthew 1926
Stirton 1933
CIT 18
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:California County:Los Angeles
Coordinates: 34.5° North, 118.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.8° North, 114.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Mint Canyon
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:shown at the top of the Mint Canyon section by Whistler 1984, but not in area mapped by Jahns 1940
Metadata
Database number:19437
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Marcot Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2019-04-18 14:15:09
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2489. 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]

Secondary references:

3229 R. A. Stirton. 1933. Critical review of the Mint Canyon mammalian fauna and its correlative significance. American Journal of Science 226 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]