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Title: Tooth recovered from tar pits
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Displayed here is the tooth of a saber toothed tiger, recovered from the La Brea Tar Pits. The "saber" is 10" long from root to tip in a straight line; 12 1/4" on an outside curve. It is 1 11/16" wide, 13/16" thick and 4 1/8" in circumference at the center.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010516
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Parks-Hancock Park-La Brea Tar Pits.; S-003-979 4x5
CARL0000012475
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84440
Subject: Fossils--California--Los Angeles
Saber-toothed tigers
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)

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