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

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 2nd terrace Member (Quaternary terrace Formation), Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the marine terraces older than the Palos Verdes Sand of Woodring et al. (1946). AGE: Lower Pleistocene in Berry (1922) [now considered late Pleistocene, A. Hendy]. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Second terrace.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified, conglomeratic sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by E.P. Chace & E.M. Chace in 1919; reposited in the USGS, USNM

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

• COLLECTOR: E.P. Chace & E.M. Chace, 1991. REPOSITORY: SBMNH.

Primary reference: S. S. Berry. 1922. Fossil chitons of Western North America. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 11(18):399-526 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 222973: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 31.10.2021

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