Where: 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 upper beds of the Lomita Marl.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

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

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

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

• COLLECTOR: Unknown collector or date, but presumably c. 1920s. REPOSITORY: Unknown, but possibly CAS.

Primary reference: G. D. Hanna. 1923. Results of Preliminary Examination of Seven Samples of Sediments from near Lomita. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 22(2):64-68 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203106: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.07.2019

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