San Pedro [Timms Point Silt] (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.7° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 118.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Timms Point Silt Formation, Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHY: Entered as "San Pedro" formation and "Timms Point" member; reinterpreted as Timms Point Silt formation (Hendy, 2021).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. D. Mitchell. 1966. Northeastern Pacific Pleistocene Sea Otters. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 23(12):1897-1911 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 20551: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• said to be early Pleistocene
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Enhydra sp. Fleming 1822 sea otter