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. 1954. Fossil arthropods of California no. 19. The Tenebrionidae-Scaurinae of the asphalt deposits. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 53:93-98 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 161536: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Oraristrix brea Howard 1933 Brea owl | |
Insecta | |
Apsena laticornis Casey 1891 darkling beetle |