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LACM Rancho La Brea

Specimen Records: 18,668
Media Records: 539
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2024-12-13

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.

Contacts

Name Aisling Farrell
RoleCollections Manager
Emailafarrell@tarpits.org
Name Gary Takeuchi
RoleCollections Manager
Emailgtakeuch@tarpits.org
Name William Mertz
RoleDatabase Manager
Emailwmertz@nhm.org
Name Aisling Farrell
RoleCollections Manager
Emailafarrell@tarpits.org
Name Gary Takeuchi
RoleCollections Manager
Emailgtakeuch@tarpits.org
Name William Mertz
RoleDatabase Manager
Emailwmertz@nhm.org
Name Aisling Farrell
RoleCollections Manager
Emailafarrell@tarpits.org
Name Gary Takeuchi
RoleCollections Manager
Emailgtakeuch@tarpits.org
Name William Mertz
RoleDatabase Manager
Emailwmertz@nhm.org
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
dwc_country_replaced  i18668
100
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i18668
100
taxon_match_failed  i5053
27.068
dwc_datasetid_added  i4841
25.932
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i4841
25.932
dwc_taxonid_added  i4841
25.932
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i4841
25.932
gbif_canonicalname_added  i4841
25.932
gbif_genericname_added  i4841
25.932
gbif_taxon_corrected  i4841
25.932
dwc_order_added  i4840
25.927
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i1276
6.835
gbif_reference_added  i708
3.793
dwc_genus_added  i640
3.428
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i488
2.614
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_replaced  i416
2.228
dwc_multimedia_added  i334
1.789
gbif_vernacularname_added  i264
1.414
dwc_family_added  i195
1.045
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i117
0.627
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i82
0.439
dwc_phylum_added  i56
0.3
dwc_family_replaced  i32
0.171
dwc_genus_replaced  i30
0.161
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i23
0.123
dwc_class_replaced  i11
0.059
dwc_phylum_replaced  i1
0.005
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