Where: Los Angeles County, California (33.7° N, 118.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.7° N, 118.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Timms Point Silt Formation, Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From what Crickmay (1929) considered the "Santa Barbara beds" [=Timms Point Silt]: AGE: Middle Pleistocene (~0.6-0.4 Ma) based on current understanding of the Timms Point Silt. From Crickmay (1929) - It permits a tentative correlation of these shales with the formation which crops out along the coast from San Pedro to Point Fermin. These have been supposed to be of Miocene age, though it must be confessed there is very little reason for that correlation. The dating of these beds, and the estimation of the hiatus between them and the Santa Barbara formation, should be regarded as problems. STRATIGRAPHIC RESOLUTION: From Zone 2, a layer of hard gray shale which weathers to a rusty yellow.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray shale
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collected by C. Crickmay in the 1920s
• COLLECTOR: C.H. Crickmay. REPOSITORY: Unknown.
Primary reference: C. H. Crickmay. 1929. The Anomalous Stratigraphy of Deadman's Island, California. Journal of Geology 37(7):617-638 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 222977: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 01.11.2021
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Calyptogena gibbera" = Archivesica gibbera
"Calyptogena gibbera" = Archivesica gibbera Crickmay 1929 clam | |
"Phacoides acutilineatus" = Lucinoma acutilineata
"Phacoides acutilineatus" = Lucinoma acutilineata Conrad 1849 clam |