Also known as USGS locality 2047, Arnold's Lumber yard
Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.7° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 118.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
When: Palos Verdes Sand Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHY: Entered as "upper San Pedro"; reinterpreted as Palos Verdes Sand (Hendy, 2021). AGE: Entered as "Pleistocene"; reinterpreted as late Pleistocene, the accepted age of modern workers for the Palos Verdes Sand (Hendy, 2021).
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the UCMP
Primary reference: R. Kellogg. 1927. Fossil Pinnipeds from California. Contributions to Palaeontology from the Carnegie Institution of Washington 27-37 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 152093: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 07.11.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Zalophus sp. Gill 1866 California sea lion | |
Phoca sp. Linnaeus 1758 seal |