Rancho La Brea, Pit 3, Grid A-3, 6.5 m depth (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Los Angeles County, California (34.1° N, 118.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.1° N, 118.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rancholabrean (0.3 - 0.0 Ma)

• Radiocarbon dates of Smilodon bone collagen at 6.7 m (22 ft) elsewhere in pit 3 give an age of 21,000 14C years, according to Berger and Libby (1968).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: tar; poorly lithified tar

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: W. D. Pierce. 1945. Fossil arthropods of California 8. A case of Pleistocene myiasis from the La Brea pits. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 44:8-9 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152194: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.11.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Calliphoridae
"Protochrysomyia howardae n. gen. n. sp." = Cochliomyia macellaria
"Protochrysomyia howardae n. gen. n. sp." = Cochliomyia macellaria Fabricius 1775 secondary screwworm
LACMIP 3075, 3073-3074, 3076-3083, 6439-6440
Aves
 Falconiformes - Vulturoidae
Teratornis merriami Miller 1909 Merriam's teratorn
LACM B2309 (humerus fragment containing blowfly puparia)