Also known as USGS 12135; W37-30

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

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Palos Verdes Sand, which overlies the San Pedro Sand. AGE: Upper Pleistocene in Woodring et al. (1946) and Valentine PhD. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by W. Woodring in 1930; reposited in the USGS, USNM

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ)

• COLLECTOR: W. Woodring, 1930. 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 222970: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 30.10.2021

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