Woodring Loc. 95 - Gaffey St & 39th St, San Pedro [Quaternary terrace] (Pleistocene of the United States)

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

• 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 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

• 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.
Bivalvia
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
Mytilus californianus Conrad 1837 mussel