Also known as Marincovich Site 7-2

Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.7° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 118.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From unnamed Quaternary terrace, which locally overlies Altamira Shale (middle-late Miocene). AGE: Late Pleistocene, following Marincovich (1976), but edited to middle Pleistocene by enterer on the basis of terrace position. STRATIGRAPHIC DETAILS: From terrace seven of Woodring et al. (1946).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by W. Easton & L. Marincovich; reposited in the LACM

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

• COLLECTOR: W. Easton and L. Marincovich (c. 1970s). REPOSITORY: LACMIP, including former USC collections.

Primary reference: L. Marincovich. 1976. Late Pleistocene molluscan faunas from upper terraces of the Palos Verdes Hills, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Contributions in Science 281:1-28 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/S. Ávila]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 202494: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.07.2019

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