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 | |
"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
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Aves | |
Teratornis merriami Miller 1909 Merriam's teratorn LACM B2309 (humerus fragment containing blowfly puparia)
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