Where: Orange County, California (33.6° N, 117.9° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° N, 117.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unnamed terrace deposits that overly the Niguel Fm (Late Pleistocene) AGE: Late Pleistocene, on the basis of geochemical dating. Uranium series dating (Grant et al., 1999) of a solitary coral from a nearby correlated locality gave an age of 122,000, giving the Fletcher Jones site an approximate age range of 120-125 Ka. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From terrace deposits 2-2.5 m above an unconformity with the Niguel Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone and poorly lithified, silty mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• COLLECTOR; Powell et al. REPOSITORY: Orange Co. Paleontology Collections.

Primary reference: C. L. Powell II, L. B. Grant, and S. W. Conkling. 2005. Paleoecologic analysis and age of a late Pleistocene fossil assemblage from Upper Newport Bay, Newport Beach, Orange County, California. The Veliger 47(3):183-192 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 96938: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.07.2010

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