Also known as Sixth Street and Flower Street; excavation for the foundation of the Richfield Oil Company Building

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 117.3° W)

When: Fernando Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; brown, gray, green, silty, sandy shale and conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CIT, LACM

• These collections are now located at the University of California at Los Angeles, the California Institute of Technology, and the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science, and Art.

Primary reference: E. K. Soper and U. S. Grant, IV. 1932. Geology and Paleontology of a Portion of Los Angeles, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin 43(4):1041-1068 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 200403: authorized by Jonathan Marcot, entered by Jonathan Marcot on 02.04.2019, edited by Austin Hendy

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