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: Timms Point Silt Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Timms Point Silt, which is locally overlain by the San Pedro Sand, and overlies at 2nd St the Lomita Marl. AGE: Lower Pleistocene in Woodring et al. (1946) and Valentine PhD, but is now regarded as Middle Pleistocene [A. Hendy]. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From Unit 1 of Timms Point Silt.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

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

• COLLECTOR: Unknown, but likely A. Clark and others REPOSITORY: Unknown, but possibly UCLA [=LACMIP]

Primary reference: A. Clark. 1930. Pliocene beds at Timms Point, San Pedro, California. Geological Society America Bulletin 41(1):210-210 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 223327: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 08.11.2021

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