Also known as USGS 13135; W47-33
Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.7° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 118.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: 4th 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 Woodring et al. (1946) and Valentine PhD [likely late Pleistocene, A. Hendy]. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Fourth terrace.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified, conglomeratic sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collected by W. Woodring in 1933; reposited in the USGS, USNM
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ)
• COLLECTOR: W. Woodring, 1933. 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 223044: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.11.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Rissoina cosmia snail | |
"Acanthina lugubris" = Mexacanthina lugubris
"Acanthina lugubris" = Mexacanthina lugubris Sowerby I 1822 murex snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Mytilus californianus Conrad 1837 mussel |