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)
• "These excavations all included a Late Pleistocene biota, but assignment of exact ages is impossible in most cases because most of the Pierce beetle specimens are without stratigraphic data."
• 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. 1949. Fossil arthropods of California 17. The silphid burying beetles in the asphalt deposits. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 48:55-70 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 161529: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
"Apsena laticornis" = Apsena laticornis5, "Apsena labreae n. sp." = Apsena laticornis5, Apsena pubescens5, Coniontis robusta6, Coniontis remnans n. sp.6, Coniontis elliptica6, Coniontis abdominalis6, Coniontis abdominalis2, Nyctoporis carinata4
Coniontis abdominalis2 LeConte 1859 darkling beetle ssp. paraelliptica (1=S9084); ssp. interrupta (5=S9089)
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"Nicrophorus marginatus" = Nicrophorus marginatus3, "Nicrophorus mckittricki" = Nicrophorus marginatus
"Nicrophorus marginatus" = Nicrophorus marginatus3 Fabricius 1801 rove beetle Nicrophorus guttulus labreae
"Nicrophorus mckittricki" = Nicrophorus marginatus Fabricius 1801 rove beetle | |
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Aves | |
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