Also known as USGS 12218; W8-30

Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.8° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 118.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lomita Marl Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Lomita Marl, which is locally overlain by the Timms Point Silt and San Pedro Sand. AGE: Early Pleistocene in Woodring et al. (1946) and Valentine PhD, but is now regarded as Middle Pleistocene [A. Hendy]. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From algal bed in fault block on southeast face of quarry

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, sandy, calcareous marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by W. Woodring in 1930; reposited in the USGS, USNM

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

• COLLECTOR: W. Woodring, 1930. REPOSITORY: USGS, now Smithsonian.

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring, M. N. Bramlette, and W. S. W. Kew. 1946. Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 207:1-145 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202969: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 24.07.2019

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