Murray Canyon

US / CA

•32.78212, -117.15334View on Map Open in Google Maps

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Murray Canyon is a fossil collection site in San Diego, California, cataloged in the Paleobiology Database. Fossils here come from the Stadium Formation, dated to the Early Uintan (45.9–39.7 million years ago). The depositional environment is recorded as terrestrial indet. Documented finds include Herpetotherium innominatum, Peradectes, Crypholestes vaughni, Crypholestes, Centetodon, Batodonoides powayensis.

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Geologic setting

Formation: Stadium
Geologic interval: Early Uintan
Age: 45.9–39.7 Ma
Depositional environment: terrestrial indet.
Recorded occurrences: 19

Fossils found here

Herpetotherium innominatum

Mammalia · Herpetotheriidae

Peradectes

Mammalia · Peradectidae

Crypholestes vaughni

Mammalia · Sespedectidae

Crypholestes

Mammalia · Sespedectidae

Centetodon

Mammalia · Geolabididae

Batodonoides powayensis

Mammalia · Geolabididae

Chiroptera

Mammalia

Ourayia

Mammalia · Omomyidae

Uintasorex

Mammalia · Microsyopidae

Microparamys minutus

Mammalia · Ischyromyidae

Eohaplomys

Mammalia · Ischyromyidae

Sciuravus powayensis

Mammalia · Sciuravidae

Pareumys

Mammalia · Cylindrodontidae

Metanoiamys agorus

Mammalia · Eomyidae

Pauromys lillegraveni

Mammalia · Sciuravidae

Protylopus

Mammalia · Oromerycidae

Leptoreodon major

Mammalia · Protoceratidae

Reticulofenestra umbilicus

NO_CLASS_SPECIFIED · NO_FAMILY_SPECIFIED

Discoaster

Coccolithophyceae · Prymnesiophycidae

Records and references

Data: Paleobiology Database collection 16762 (CC BY 4.0) — view the source record

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Coordinates: 32.78212, -117.15334

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