Iron Canyon Site

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.

Specimens located

Proboscidea (Gomphotheriidae)

• Gomphotherium

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