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: H. Howard and A. H. Miller. 1939. The avifauna associated with human remains at Rancho la Brea, California. Studies oif Cenozoic Vertebrates and Stratigraphy of Western North America 40-48more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 192630: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.04.2018, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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