Woodring Loc. 135 - Palos Verdes Dr [Palos Verdes Sand] (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as USGS 12156; W98-30

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

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Palos Verdes Sand, which overlies the San Pedro Sand. AGE: Upper Pleistocene in Woodring et al. (1946) and Valentine PhD. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: unknown position within formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified sandstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Typically containing a innermost shelf-inner shelf fauna.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Not listed, but generally a unconsolidated sand. LITHIFICATION: Not stated, but typically unlithified.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collected by W. Woodring in 1930; reposited in the USGS, USNM

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

• COLLECTOR: W. Woodring, 1930. REPOSITORY: USGS, now Smithsonian.

Primary reference: W. P. Woodring, M. N. Bramlette, and W. S. W. Kew. 1946. Geology and Paleontology of Palos Verdes Hills, California. US Geological Survey Professional Paper 207:1-145 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 223524: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.11.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COVERAGE: Exhaustive for molluscs. NOMENCLATURE: Updated to 1960s era, so somewhat antiquated but standardized and typically resolved to species resolution.
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Crassatellidae
"Crassinella branneri" = Crassinella pacifica Adams 1852 clam
Crassinella nuculiformis Berry 1940 clam
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Chione gnidia" = Chionopsis gnidia, Dosinia ponderosa, ""Chione" picta" = Chione (Timoclea) picta
"Chione gnidia" = Chionopsis gnidia Broderip and Sowerby I 1829 venus clam
Dosinia ponderosa Gray 1838 venus clam
""Chione" picta" = Chione (Timoclea) picta Willett 1944 venus clam