Woodring Loc. 48 - Harbor Blvd & Grand St [San Pedro Sand] (Pleistocene of the United States)

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

• ENVIRONMENT: Typically containing a innermost shelf-inner shelf fauna.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not listed, but generally a unconsolidated sand. LITHIFICATION: Not stated, but typically unlithified.

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

• COVERAGE: Limited to molluscs listed or figured in text. NOMENCLATURE: Updated to 1960s era, so somewhat antiquated but standardized and typically resolved to species resolution.
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
"Cerithidea californica" = Cerithideopsis californica
"Cerithidea californica" = Cerithideopsis californica Haldeman 1840 horn snail
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
"Trophonopsis lasia" = Scabrotrophon lasius
"Trophonopsis lasia" = Scabrotrophon lasius Dall 1919 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
"Euspira lewisi" = Euspira lewisii
"Euspira lewisi" = Euspira lewisii Gould 1847 moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Vitrinellidae
Vitrinella thomasi Bartsch 1918 snail
 Trochoidea - Phasianellidae
"Tricolia compta" = Eulithidium comptum
"Tricolia compta" = Eulithidium comptum Gould 1855 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"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
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Chlamys rubida Hinds 1845 scallop
SUBSPECIES: Chlamys islandicus hindsi
 Lucinida - Thyasiridae
"Axinopsis viridus" = Axinopsida serricata
"Axinopsis viridus" = Axinopsida serricata Carpenter 1864 clam