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
- Peraceras
- Serbelodon S. burnhami
Equidae
- Dinohippus
- Pliohippus P. tantalus
- Megahippus M. matthewi
Amphicyonidae
- Ischyrocyon I. mohavensis
Canidae
- Epicyon E. saevus
Artiodactyla
- Alluvisorex A. chasseae
- Paracosoryx P. furlongi
- Merychyus
Lipotyphla
- Limnoecus
- Erinaceidae
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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