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Rancho La Brea
Land grant
The fauna of Rancho La Brea, by John C. Merriam[clarification needed]
The fauna of Rancho La Brea, by John C. Merriam[clarification needed]
CountryUnited States
StateCalifornia
CountyLos Angeles
Area
 • Total6.93 sq mi (17.96 km2)

Rancho La Brea was a 4,439-acre (17.96 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California, given in 1828 to Antonio Jose Rocha and Nemisio Dominguez by José Antonio Carrillo, the alcalde of Los Angeles. Rancho La Brea consisted of one square league of land of what is now Wilshire's Miracle Mile, Hollywood, and parts of West Hollywood.[1][2][3] The grant included the famous La Brea Tar Pits.[4]

  1. ^ Diseño del Rancho La Brea
  2. ^ 1900 USGS topographic map[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Map of old Spanish and Mexican ranchos in Los Angeles County
  4. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Rancho La Brea

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La Brea Tar Pits

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roofs of their houses". The La Brea Tar Pits and Hancock Park were formerly part of the Mexican land grant of Rancho La Brea. For some years, tar-covered...

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Rancho La Brea

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Rancho La Brea was a 4,439-acre (17.96 km2) Mexican land grant in present-day Los Angeles County, California, given in 1828 to Antonio Jose Rocha and Nemisio...

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La Brea Woman

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post-cranial remains,[which?] and were recovered from Pit 10 at the Rancho La Brea tar pits. They used to be on display in the George C. Page Museum, alongside...

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Paleobiota of the La Brea Tar Pits

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| la Brea Tar Pits". "Fauna and Flora of Rancho La Brea" Archived 2008-12-04 at the Wayback Machine (last visited April 13, 2013). Museum, La Brea Tar...

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Dire wolf

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dirus. The largest collection of its fossils has been obtained from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Dire wolf remains have been found across a...

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La Cienega Boulevard

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north. It was named for Rancho Las Cienegas, literally "The Ranch Of The Swamps," an area of marshland south of Rancho La Brea. From south of Fairview...

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Smilodon

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inhabiting open areas such as grassland. The availability of prey in the Rancho La Brea area was likely comparable to modern East Africa. As Smilodon migrated...

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American lion

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seen as a nomen nudum synonymous with Panthera atrox. Further south in Rancho La Brea, California, a large felid skull was excavated and later described in...

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George Allan Hancock

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May 31, 1965) was the owner of the Rancho La Brea Oil Company. He inherited Rancho La Brea, including the La Brea Tar Pits which he donated to Los Angeles...

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La Brea Avenue

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along its route. La Brea is the Spanish phrase meaning "the tar." The La Brea Tar Pits, which the 1828 Mexican land grant Rancho La Brea was named for,...

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Oraristrix

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genus for the extinct Late Pleistocene owl Strix brea Howard (Aves: Strigiformes) from Rancho La Brea, California" (PDF). Records of the Australian Museum...

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Paramylodon

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Pit 91, Rancho La Brea. Palaios 23(1), 2008, S. 35–42 Leslie F. Marcus: A census of the abundant large Pleistocene mammals from Rancho La Brea. Contributions...

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Beringian wolf

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remains have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits at Los Angeles, California. These wolves, referred to as Rancho La Brea wolves (Canis lupus), were not...

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Tar pit

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E. (July 15, 2007). "Microbial Diversity in Natural Asphalts of the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits". Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 73 (14): 4579–4591...

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Hancock Park

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Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits: History of Rancho La Brea and the La Brea Tar Pits excavations Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits: the Pleistocene...

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Arctodus

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Mexico (deep within the supposed range of A. s. simus), & possibly Rancho La Brea, and notably small specimens from the Yukon and Vancouver Island, put...

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Ranchos of Los Angeles County

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Dominguez (Hills, Channel, Rancho, CSUDH), Duarte, Encino, La Brea Ave., La Cañada Flintridge, La Cienega Blvd., La Puente, La Tijera Blvd., Las Virgenes...

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Grus pagei

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Pleistocene asphalt deposits of Rancho La Brea, Los Angeles, California. It is one of three cranes present at Rancho La Brea, the others being the living...

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Gymnogyps amplus

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plesiotypes from the Rancho La Brea which includes a cranium, rostrum, and mandible. The species is the only condor species found in the La Brea Tar Pits' Pit...

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Icterid

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been described from Pleistocene fossil remains are Pandanaris from Rancho La Brea and Pyelorhamphus from Shelter Cave. Chesser, R. Terry; Burns, Kevin...

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William Warren Orcutt

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Geological Services, Inc. Retrieved September 23, 2012. "Research at Rancho La Brea". Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. Retrieved September...

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Rancholabrean

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0.229 million years. Named after the famed Rancho La Brea fossil site (more commonly known as the La Brea tar pits) in Los Angeles, California, the Rancholabrean...

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Barred owl

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genus for the extinct late Pleistocene owl Strix brea Howard (Aves: Strigiformes) from Rancho La Brea, California". Records of the Australian Museum. 62:...

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Henry Hancock

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working in California in the 1850s. He was the owner of Rancho La Brea, which included the La Brea Tar Pits. Henry Hancock was born in Bath, New Hampshire...

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List of National Natural Landmarks in California

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Ranch Pygmy Forest La Brea Tar Pits Lake Shasta Caverns Mitchell Caverns Mount Diablo Mount Shasta Point Lobos Rainbow Basin Rancho La Brea San Andreas Fault...

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List of North American animals extinct in the Holocene

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International, 595, 30-38. Zazula, GD, Hall, E., Hare, PG, Thomas, C., Mathewes, R., La Farge, C., et al. (2017). "A middle holocene steppe bison and paleoenvironments...

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