La Brea and beyond : the paleontology of asphalt-preserved biotas

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Alternative: Paleontology of asphalt-preserved biotas

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Series: Los Angeles county museum science series, no.42
Series: Science series (Los Angeles, Calif.), no. 42

By

Harris, John Michael,
Natural History Museum Of Los Angeles County

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

Los Angeles, California Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County September 15, 2015

Notes

Contents: Preface -- | Introduction / | H. Gregory McDonald, John M. Harris, Emily Lindsey -- | The Owls (Aves: Strigiformes) of Rancho La Brea / | Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr., and Zbigniew M. Bochenski -- | Microevolution of Jaw Shape in the Dire Wolf, Canis dirus, at Rancho La Brea / | Alexandria L. Brannick, Julie A. Meachen, and F. Robin O'Keefe -- | A Pathological Timber Wolf (Canis lupus) Femur from Rancho La Brea Indicates Extended Survival After Traumatic Amputation Injury / | Eric Scott, Elizabeth Rega, Kim Scott, Bryan Bennett, and Stuart Sumida -- | Dental Microwear Textures of Carnivorans from the La Brea Tar Pits, California, and Potential Extinction Implications / | Larisa R. G. DeSantis, Blaine W. Schubert, Elizabeth Schmitt-Linville, Peter S. Ungar, Shelly L. Donohue, and Ryan J. Haupt -- | The Bacula of Rancho La Brea / | Adam Hartstone-Rose, Robert G. Dundas, Bryttin Boyde, Ryan C. Long, Aisling B. Farrell, and Christopher A. Shaw -- | Last Years of Life and Season of Death of a Columbian Mammoth from Rancho La Brea / | Joseph J. El Adli, Michael D. Cherney, Daniel C. Fisher, John M. Harris, Aisling B. Farrell, and Shelley M. Cox -- | Equus occidentalis Leidy from "Asphalto," Kern County, California / | Kristen E. Brown, William A. Akersten, and Eric Scott -- | The Addition of Smilodon fatalis (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) to the Biota of the Late Pleistocene Carpinteria Asphalt Deposits in California, with Ontogenetic and Ecologic Implications for the Species / | Christopher A. Shaw and James P. Quinn -- | Perusing Talara: Overview of the Late Pleistocene Fossils from the Tar Seeps of Peru / | Kevin L. Seymour -- | "Tar Pits" of the Western Neotropics: Paleoecology, Taphonomy, and Mammalian Biogeography / | Emily L. Lindsey and Kevin L. Seymour -- | A New Mammal Assemblage from the Late Pleistocene El Breal de Orocual, Northeast of Venezuela / | Andrés Solórzano, Ascanio D. Rincón, and H. Gregory McDonald -- | Sample Preparation for Radiocarbon Dating and Isotopic Analysis of Bone from Rancho La Brea / | Benjamin T. Fuller, John M. Harris, Aisling B. Farrell, Gary Takeuchi, and John R. Southon -- | New Technique to Remove Asphalt from Microfossil-rich Matrix from Rancho La Brea / | Karin Rice, Alex Sessions, Katherine Lai, and Gary T. Takeuchi.

Subjects

California , La Brea Pits , Paleontology , Pleistocene , Vertebrates, Fossil

Call Number

QE747.C2 L33 2015

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 922971836