Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.7° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 118.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Palos Verdes Sand Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the upper part of the San Pedro Series [=Palos Verdes Sand]: AGE: Late Pleistocene (0.125-0.08 Ma) based on current understanding of the Palos Verdes Sand. STRATIGRAPHIC RESOLUTION: List is exhaustive of the Palos Verdes Sand in a relatively small geographic area, so given stratigraphic resolution of formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, shelly/skeletal sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by R. Arnold; reposited in the CAS

• COLLECTOR: Multiple collectors including R. Arnold, M. Williamson, and others. REPOSITORY: Multiple repositories including CAS and LACMIP.

Primary reference: R. Arnold. 1903. The Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California. Contributions to Biology from The Hopkins Seaside Laboratory 31 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 222660: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 11.10.2021, edited by Bethany Allen

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