Also known as USGS 12198; W6-30
Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.8° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 118.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: San Pedro Sand Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the San Pedro Sand, which is locally overlain by the Palos Verdes Sand. AGE: Lower Pleistocene in Woodring et al. (1946) and Valentine PhD, but is now regarded as Middle Pleistocene [A. Hendy]. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the San Pedro Sand.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified 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, 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 223301: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 07.11.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Cerithidea californica" = Cerithideopsis californica
"Cerithidea californica" = Cerithideopsis californica Haldeman 1840 horn snail | |
"Trophonopsis lasia" = Scabrotrophon lasius
"Trophonopsis lasia" = Scabrotrophon lasius Dall 1919 murex snail | |
"Euspira lewisi" = Euspira lewisii
"Euspira lewisi" = Euspira lewisii Gould 1847 moon snail | |
Vitrinella thomasi Bartsch 1918 snail | |
"Tricolia compta" = Eulithidium comptum
"Tricolia compta" = Eulithidium comptum Gould 1855 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Nucula cardara" = Ennucula cardara, "Acila castrensis" = Acila (Truncacila) castrensis
"Nucula cardara" = Ennucula cardara Dall 1916 nut clam
"Acila castrensis" = Acila (Truncacila) castrensis Hinds 1843 divaricate nutclam | |
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"Axinopsis viridus" = Axinopsida serricata
"Axinopsis viridus" = Axinopsida serricata Carpenter 1864 clam |