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ID: 2443478
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2443478
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of La Brea Tar Pits (archaeological site)  La Brea Tar Pits (archaeological site)

Coordinates:
Lat: 34 03 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 34.0500  decimal degrees
Long: 118 21 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -118.3500  decimal degrees

Note: Site of one of best preserved assemblages of fossils of Pleistocene vertebrates dating 40,000 to 8,000 before present, including extinct sabre-toothed cats, wolves, mammoths, mastodons, bison, horses, camels, sloths, carnivorous birds, & a human female (dating to ca. 9,000 before present).

Names:
La Brea Tar Pits (preferred,C,V)
La Brea Fossil Pits (C,V)
La Brea (C,V)
Salt Creek Oilfields (H,V)  ............ name used in 1910, when site was 7 miles W of Los Angeles
Rancho La Brea (H,V)  ............ name of Mexican land grant on this site

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of United States (nation)  ........  United States (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of California (state)  ............  California (state) (P)
Hierarchy of Los Angeles (county)  ................  Los Angeles (county) (P)
Hierarchy of Los Angeles (inhabited place)  ....................  Los Angeles (inhabited place) (P)
Hierarchy of La Brea Tar Pits (archaeological site)  ........................  La Brea Tar Pits (archaeological site) (P)

Place Types:
archaeological site (preferred, C)
oil field site (H)
mine (H)  ............  was natural source of tar & asphalt for thousands of years

Sources and Contributors:
La Brea..........  [VP]
.................  Pleistocene (1998) accessed 04/12/99
La Brea Fossil Pits..........  [VP]
...................................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6049844
La Brea Tar Pits..........  [VP Preferred]
.............................  Channel Island, Los Angeles Times (1999)
Rancho La Brea..........  [VP]
.............................  Page Museum (1999) accessed 04/12/99
Salt Creek Oilfields..........  [VP]
...................................  Pleistocene (1998) accessed 04/12/99
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Channel Island, Los Angeles Times (1999)
..................  Page Museum (1999) accessed 04/12/99
..................  Pleistocene (1998) accessed 04/12/99
..................  USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS6049844
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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