Also known as USGS 12183; W122-30

Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.8° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 118.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Second 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 1930; reposited in the USGS, USNM

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

• COLLECTOR: W. Woodring, 1930. 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 223072: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.11.2021

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