Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.7° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 118.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Timms Point Silt Formation, Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHY: Entered as "San Pedro" formation and "Timms Point" member; reinterpreted as Timms Point Silt formation (Hendy, 2021).
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. D. Mitchell. 1966. Northeastern Pacific Pleistocene Sea Otters. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada 23(12):1897-1911 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 20551: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Enhydra sp. Fleming 1822 sea otter |