Iron Canyon Site

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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

Equidae

Amphicyonidae

Canidae

Artiodactyla

  • Alluvisorex A. chasseae
  • Paracosoryx P. furlongi
  • Merychyus

Lipotyphla

Lagomorpha

  • Hesperolagomys

Rodentia

  • Thomomys
  • Cupidinimus C. avawatzensis, C. tertius
  • Perognathus P. minutus
  • Geomyidae
  • Eucastor
  • Copemys 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


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