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Title: Bones found in tar pit
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Bones exposed in situ in bank of one of the ponds of La Brea Tar Pits. The large bone at the top is scapula of sloth. Diagonally down to right is clavicle of sloth. Large bone at right is scapula of camel ; immediately below is end of tibia of camel. At bottom, flat bone is scapula of saber-toothed tiger. To the right is a vertebrum of sloth. (Between the last two is a small trowel.) Long straight bone at the left is rib of camel and continuing to right is rib of camel. To the right of the last is pelvis of saber-toothed tiger.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00010519
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
L.A.-Parks-Hancock Park-La Brea Tar Pits.; S-003-982 4x5
CARL0000012549
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/84877
Subject: Fossils--California--Los Angeles
La Brea Pits (Calif.)
Hancock Park (Los Angeles, Calif. : Park)

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