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

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Palos Verdes Sand Formation, Middle Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: A composite from the Palos Verdes Sand, but possibly including fossils from the San Pedro Sand and Timms Point Silt. AGE: Late Pleistocene, although a Middle Pleistocene-Late Pleistocene age might be applicable. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: A composite from multiple unspecified collections from the Palos Verdes Sand so assigned a formation stratigraphic resolution.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: COLLECTOR: unknown, possible multiple collectors. REPOSITORY: unknown, possible multiple repositories.

Primary reference: W. H. Dall. 1898. A table of the North American Tertiary horizons, correlated into one another and with those of western Europe, with annotations. United States Geological Survey 18th Annual Report, part 2 323-348 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 222954: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 29.10.2021

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