Paleobiota of the La Brea Tar Pits

A list of prehistoric and extinct species whose fossils have been found in the La Brea Tar Pits, located in present-day Hancock Park, a city park on the Miracle Mile section of the Mid-Wilshire district in Los Angeles, California.

[1][2][3] Some of the tar pit's fossils are displayed in the adjacent George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries in the park.

They are primarily from Pleistocene predator species.

Daggers (†) in the list denote extinct species.

stauroneiformis W. Smith Actinocyclus Actinocyclus ehrenbergii[159] Coscinodiscus marginatus[159] Coscinodiscus radiatus[159] Melosira clavigera[159] Melosira italica[159] Stephanodiscus Stephanodiscus astraea[159] Amphora coffeiformis var.

Amphora venata var.

Cymbella cistula var.

Epithemia adnata var.

emarginata Andrews Epithemia intermedia var.

intermedia Fricke Epithemia turgida var.

Fragilaria bicapitata var.

bicapitata Fragilaria construens var.

vaucheriae Fragilaria virescens var.

constrictum Synedra fasciculata var.

Synedra ulna var.

ulna Gomphonema affine var.

affine Gomphonema insigne Greg.

Gomphonema angustatum var.

Nitzschia denticulae Grun.

Nitzschia fonticola Grun.

Nitzschia frustulum (Kutz.)

Nitzschia hungarcia Grun.

ignorata Krasske Nitzschia palea (Kutz.)

sphaerophora Caloneis bacillum var.

Caloneis limosa var.

danseii (Thwaites) Cl.

cohnii (Hilse) Grun.

Pinnularia intermedia var.

Pinnularia viridis var.

Stauroneis laterostrata Hust.