Description
The LACM Rancho La Brea collections hold 3-5 million fossil specimens covering ~50,000 years to near present day. They hold the world's largest collection of extinct megafauna and are particularly well known for the vast osteological collections of carnivores and birds. In addition, the collections include botany, arthropods, molluscs and small vertebrates, including fishes, amphibian, reptiles and mammals, as well as a few artifacts. The collections are all from the vicinity of the Rancho La Brea National Natural Landmark, mostly within the Los Angeles County park called Hancock Park.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 18,668 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Farrell A, Takeuchi G, Mertz W (2024). LACM Rancho La Brea. Version 1.5. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Occurrence dataset. http://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=lacm-rlb&v=1.0
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 37eeb5de-fec3-404a-ba4f-62218ac6c860. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
Keywords
Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Collections Manager
- 900 Exposition Blvd
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9892-3086
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Collections Manager
- 900 Exposition Blvd
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Database Manager
- 900 Exposition Blvd
Geographic Coverage
The LACMRLB collection has a very narrow geographic and temporal range.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [34.058, -118.366], North East [34.068, -118.349] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
| Phylum | Plantae (plants), Arthropoda (arthropods), Mollusca (molluscs) |
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| Superclass | Osteichthyes (fishes) |
| Class | Amphibia (amphibians), Reptilia (reptiles), Aves (birds), Mammalia (mammals) |
Temporal Coverage
| Living Time Period | late Rancholabrean NALMA |
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| Living Time Period | Holocene |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 37eeb5de-fec3-404a-ba4f-62218ac6c860 |
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| https://ipt.idigbio.org/resource?r=lacm-rlb |