| The view is southwestward to nondescript exposures of the 6.0 to 3.0 million-years-old Coso Formation (pale outcroppings in middleground) in the Coso Range Wilderness; somewhere out there amidst the pale brown sands and silts in the middleground, paleontologists recovered the remains of an Agriotherium, a monstrous extinct bear, in sediments approximately 4.8 million years old. |