Also known as USGS 13781; W11-35
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 Woodring et al. (1946) and Valentine PhD [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 W. Woodring in 1935; reposited in the USGS, USNM
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ)
• COLLECTOR: W. Woodring, 1935. REPOSITORY: USGS, now Smithsonian.
Primary reference: W.P. Woodring. 1935. Fossils from the marine Pleistocene terraces of the San Pedro Hills, Calif. American Journal of Science, 5th series 29:291-305 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 223068: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.11.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Mytilus californianus Conrad 1837 mussel |