Also known as LACM 3270

Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.8° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 118.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Palos Verdes Sand Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHY: Originally listed as "San Pedro". On the basis of age and location, Hendy (2021) reassigns formation to Palos Verdes Sand. AGE: 50,000-120,000 years ago. Palos Verdes Sand is considered late Pleistocene by modern workers.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: L. G. Barnes and S. A. McLeod. 1984. The fossil record and phyletic relationships of gray whales. The Gray Whale: Eschrichitius robustus 3-32 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 154223: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.02.2014

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