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Pleistocene the Iceprong




Katran
Legacy Name: Katran


The Twilight Blob
Owner: Historiography

Age: 5 years, 11 months, 2 weeks

Born: April 11th, 2018

Adopted: 5 years, 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Adopted: April 11th, 2018


Pet Spotlight Winner
August 17th, 2022

Statistics


  • Level: 1
     
  • Strength: 10
     
  • Defense: 11
     
  • Speed: 10
     
  • Health: 10
     
  • HP: 10/10
     
  • Intelligence: 0
     
  • Books Read: 0
  • Food Eaten: 0
  • Job: Unemployed


Pet Information


Hi, I'm Katran. I'm a little tar blob that lives in the tar pits at the La Brea Tar Pits.
So, when I created this pet it was mostly because well, I'm from California, born and raised in the state, and I always thought the Brea Tar Pits were pretty cool.

The Brea Tar Pits refers to a large naturally occurring petroleum Tar field/lake that was discovered in the 1800s. Currently the Tar Pits house a museum and park nearby to the Tar Pits. The underground oil field that makes up the tar pits are believed to have been created roughly 5-25 million years ago during the Miocene Epoch from marine plankton deposited in a nearby ocean. The petroleum that made up the tar pit slowly migrated to the surface over time, trapping animals, and plants within its hold. Within the last 50,000 years or so, the fossils of numerous animals and plants, such as Sabretooth Tigers, Woolly Mammoths and plants have been excavated from the tar pits. It is the only active excavated Ice Age fossil site found in an urban location in the world. Additionally, the tar that encased the animals when they got trapped has also acted as a preservative, allowing the animals to be stuck in their original state, and not have decayed over time.

The tar pits themselves are composed of the tar field itself, known as the Lake Pit located in front of the museum and created from asphalt mining operations in the late 1800s. Groundwater and rain collected over the asphalt and created a small lake. However, beneath the tar pits there is a large petroleum oil field, known by name as the Salt Lake Oil Field. Additionally there is also a recreational park onsite, Hancock Park and a museum as well.

More Information about the tar pits can be found here at the museum's official site: La Brea Tar Pits so if you're ever in Orange County, why not come and visit.

Credits

Profile design and Code by Ringo | Fossil background
from jojo-ojoj at Deviantart
Story by myself, Historiography
Research for info about the La Brea Tar Pits taken from the official website, linked here: La Brea Tar Pits

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