title: Iron Canyon Site
text: # 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
  