Woodring Loc. 85 - Point Vicente, Palos Verdes Peninsula [Quaternary terrace] (Pleistocene of the United States)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Typically containing a shoreface fauna.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not listed, but generally a unconsolidated conglomeratic sand. LITHIFICATION: Not stated, but typically unlithified.

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

• COVERAGE: Limited to listed molluscs (not a complete list). NOMENCLATURE: Updated to 1960s era, so somewhat antiquated but standardized and typically resolved to species resolution.
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
"Acanthina lugubris" = Mexacanthina lugubris
"Acanthina lugubris" = Mexacanthina lugubris Sowerby I 1822 murex snail
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus californianus Conrad 1837 mussel