Also known as AB180602, Ed Davis Park at Towsley Canyon

Where: Santa Barbara County, California (34.4° N, 118.6° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 117.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pico Formation, Zanclean to Zanclean (5.3 - 1.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: deltaic; poorly lithified, concretionary sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite, shellbed

Collected by Alexandra J. Buczek, Austin J. Hendy in 2018; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: A. Buczek, A. Hendy, M. Hopkins and J. Sessa. 2020. On the reconciliation of biostratigraphy and strontium isotope stratigraphy of three southern Californian Plio-Pleistocene formations. Geological Society America Bulletin 133(1-2):100-114 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 214262: authorized by Jocelyn Sessa, entered by Alexandra Buczek on 21.09.2020

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