I suspect that 65 million years ago the deposits that characterize much of the modern middle east were being laid down as well, under water. I need a little more research on the rock facies, but I think that’s a fair statement generally.
I always though odd when they un-covered the La Brea Tar Pits in California..
The Page Museum is located at the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in the heart of Los Angeles. Rancho La Brea is one of the world’s most famous fossil localities, recognized for having the largest and most diverse assemblage of extinct Ice Age plants and animals in the world.
Visitors can learn about Los Angeles as it was between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age, when animals such as saber-toothed cats and mammoths roamed the Los Angeles Basin. Through windows at the Page Museum Laboratory, visitors can watch bones being cleaned and repaired. Outside the Museum, in Hancock Park, life-size replicas of several extinct mammals are featured.
Why in this part of the world?
Due to Seismic Activity?