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Los Coyotes Regional Park

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Within this park is a former quarry, known as the Emery borrow pit, which has yielded a number of marine and nonmarine fossils of Pleistocene.

The principal fossils are Pleistocene vertebrates of the Rancho La Brean fauna.  (See Rancho La Brea Tar Pits.)

Integrity:  A former quarry, this is now a part of a Regional Park, complete with various recreational facilities.

Use:  Research, educational, observational, present .

March 1977

Inventory of California Natural Areas
Revision © 2009 Steven Louis Hartman







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