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The fossils include unique species of fish that had never been found in the area before. The discovery is reshaping views on California geology with the possibility of extinct islands.
Then in 1924, Hancock donated 23 acres (9.3 ha) to Los Angeles County with the stipulation that the county provide for the preservation of the park and the exhibition of fossils found there. [ 19 ] The George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, part of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, was built next to the tar pits in ...
Fossil of the Devonian-Triassic arthropod trackway ichnogenus Cruziana †Cruziana †Cyclolobus †Cyclonema †Cymbidium †Daguinaspis †Dicoelosia †Didymograptus †Dimeropygiella †Diplichnites †Encrinurus †Endoceras – tentative report †Euomphalus †Fallotaspis †Favosites †Fenestella †Gogia †Halysites †Helicoplacus
417 fossils corresponding to at least 52 individuals Sandhill crane fossils found in the tar pits indicate that individuals of this species grew to much larger sizes during the Pleistocene. The species Grus minor, described from the La Brea tar pits, was later found to be a synonym of the sandhill crane. Whooping crane [117] Grus americana
Ranger Greg Francek found a trove of fossilized animals and petrified trees more than 5 million years old in an area east of Oakland, California.
Millions of prehistoric marine fossils were discovered beneath a California high school over the course of a multi-year construction project. The relics recovered at San Pedro High School included ...
The Cerutti Mastodon site is a paleontological and possible archeological site in San Diego County, California. In 2017, broken mastodon bones at the site were dated to around 130,700 years ago. The bones were found with cobblestones displaying use-wear and impact marks among the otherwise fine-grain sands.
This list of the Cenozoic life of California contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of California and are between 66 million and 10,000 years of age.