Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.8° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 118.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Quaternary terrace Formation, Early/Lower Pleistocene to Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 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 early-late Pleistocene, A. Hendy]. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Third through twelve terrace.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified, conglomeratic sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by W. Woodring in 1930-1935; reposited in the USGS, USNM

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

• COLLECTOR: W. Woodring, 1930-1935. 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 223075: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 03.11.2021

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