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

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Palos Verdes Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• These are from the same exposure, but one station (locality 68-A) is about 8 to 10 feet lower in the section than the other (locality 68-B).

•

•The lower stratum is richly fossiliferous and near the Pliocene-Miocene contact.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained sandstone and unlithified, coarse-grained sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: G. P. Kanakoff and W. K. Emerson. 1959. Late Pleistocene invertebrates of the Newport Bay area, California. Contributions in Science, Los Angeles County Museum 31:1-47 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 219030: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 10.03.2021, edited by Austin Hendy

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)