La Brea and beyond
Subtitle: the paleontology of asphalt-preserved biotas
By: edited by John M. Harris
Series: Science series (Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County) -- no. 42; Science series (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- no. 42
Publisher: Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Fossil Vertebrates; Paleontology
Other titles: Paleontology of asphalt-preserved biotas
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface -- Introduction / -- H. Gregory McDonald, John M. Harris, Emily Lindsey; title: The Owls (Aves: Strigiformes) of Rancho La Brea  -- Kenneth E. Campbell, Jr., and Zbigniew M. Bochenski; title: 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; title: 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; title: 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; title: The Bacula of Rancho La Brea  -- Adam Hartstone-Rose, Robert G. Dundas, Bryttin Boyde, Ryan C. Long, Aisling B. Farrell, and Christopher A. Shaw; title: 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; title: Equus occidentalis Leidy from "Asphalto," Kern County, California  -- Kristen E. Brown, William A. Akersten, and Eric Scott; title: 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; title: Perusing Talara: Overview of the Late Pleistocene Fossils from the Tar Seeps of Peru  -- Kevin L. Seymour; title: "Tar Pits" of the Western Neotropics: Paleoecology, Taphonomy, and Mammalian Biogeography  -- Emily L. Lindsey and Kevin L. Seymour; title: A New Mammal Assemblage from the Late Pleistocene El Breal de Orocual, Northeast of Venezuela  -- Andrés Solórzano, Ascanio D. Rincón, and H. Gregory McDonald; title: 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; title: New Technique to Remove Asphalt from Microfossil-rich Matrix from Rancho La Brea -- Karin Rice, Alex Sessions, Katherine Lai, and Gary T. Takeuchi.