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.Paleobiology database: Iron Canyon Collection
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Specimens located

Proboscidea The Proboscidea (; , ) are a taxonomic order of afrotherian mammals containing one living family (Elephantidae) and several extinct families. First described by J. Illiger in 1811, it encompasses the elephants and their close relatives. From ...

(Gomphotheriidae) *

Gomphotherium ''Gomphotherium'' (; "welded beast") is an extinct genus of proboscids from the Neogene and early Pleistocene of Eurasia, Africa, North America and Asia. As of 2021, two species, ''G. annectens'' and possibly ''G. subtapiroideum'', are also kno ...

Rhinocerotidae * Peraceras *

Serbelodon ''Serbelodon'' is an extinct genus of proboscidean. It had tusks and a trunk. It lived in North America during the Miocene Epoch, and it was closely related to ''Amebelodon''. They had a diet that consisted of C3 plants which include fruits, tre ...

''S. burnhami'' Equidae *

Dinohippus ''Dinohippus'' (Greek: "Terrible horse") is an extinct equid which was endemic to North America from the late Hemphillian stage of the Miocene through the Zanclean stage of the Pliocene (10.3—3.6 mya) and in existence for approximately . Fossi ...

* Pliohippus ''P. tantalus'' * Megahippus ''M. matthewi'' Amphicyonidae * Ischyrocyon ''I. mohavensis'' Canidae *

Epicyon ''Epicyon'' ("more than a dog") is a large, extinct, canid genus of the subfamily Borophaginae ("bone-crushing dogs"), native to North America. ''Epicyon'' existed for about from the Hemingfordian age of the Early Miocene, to the Hemphillian of ...

E. saevus Artiodactyla * Alluvisorex ''A. chasseae'' * Paracosoryx ''P. furlongi'' * Merychyus Lipotyphla * Limnoecus *

Erinaceidae Erinaceidae is a family in the order Eulipotyphla, consisting of the hedgehogs and moonrats. Until recently, it was assigned to the order Erinaceomorpha, which has been subsumed with the paraphyletic Soricomorpha into Eulipotyphla. Eulipotyphla ...

Lagomorpha * Hesperolagomys Rodentia * Thomomys * Cupidinimus ''C. avawatzensis, C. tertius'' *

Perognathus ''Perognathus'' is a genus of pocket mouse. Like other members of their family they are more closely related to pocket gophers than to true mice. Characteristics The silky pocket mice are small animals with soft pelage, long tails, and small f ...

P. minutus * Geomyidae *

Eucastor ''Eucastor'' is an extinct genus (biology), genus of beaver-grouped rodents. Based on the available evidence of the Foramen, foramina, ''Eucastor'' most likely is closely related to Beaver, ''Castor'', but not in its direct lineage. References ...

* Copemys ''C. dentalis, C. longidens, C. russelli''

References

{{reflist *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 Californi
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