Where: California (33.8° N, 118.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lomita Marl Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Lomita Marl, which is locally overlain by the Timms Point Silt and San Pedro Sand. AGE: Early Pleistocene in Woodring et al. (1946) and Valentine PhD, but is now regarded as Middle Pleistocene [A. Hendy]. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: List is representation of formation at this section.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, sandy, calcareous marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by S. Berry, E. P. Chace, & R. Cross; reposited in the CAS

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

• COLLECTOR: S. Berry, E. P. Chace, & R. Cross; multiple collecting events. REPOSITORY: Likely to be at CAS; former Stanford collections.

Primary reference: H. G. Schenck. 1945. Geologic Application of Biometrical Analysis of Molluscan Assemblages. Journal of Paleontology 19(5):504-521 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203113: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.07.2019

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