Also known as USGS 14069; W2-37
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: San Pedro Sand Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the San Pedro Sand, which is locally overlain by the Palos Verdes Sand. AGE: Lower Pleistocene in Woodring et al. (1946) and Valentine PhD, but is now regarded as Middle Pleistocene [A. Hendy]. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Anomia-Ostrea layer in San Pedro Sand.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collected by W. Woodring in 1937; reposited in the USGS, USNM
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ)
• COLLECTOR: W. Woodring, 1937. 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 222938: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.10.2021, edited by Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Neverita reclusiana alta moon snail
Neverita reclusiana imperforata moon snail | |
"Neptunea tabulata" = Neptunea (Sulcosipho) tabulata
"Neptunea tabulata" = Neptunea (Sulcosipho) tabulata Baird 1863 true whelk | |
Turritella cooperi Carpenter 1864 turret shell | |
"Tricolia compta" = Eulithidium comptum
"Tricolia compta" = Eulithidium comptum Gould 1855 snail | |
Tegula ligulata Menke 1850 top snail |