Distinguish between the fossils of ice age mammals found in the La Brea Tar Pits and the organisms that make up the fossil fuels of the tar.

The tar in the la Brea Tar is a fossil fuel That started forming hundreds of years ago from the organisms that was present in the marine ecosystem. During the last ice age that is few thousands of years ago, mammals like sabertooth cat and mammoths got trapped in the tar. Only bones were left behind in the tar. The mammals in this case became trapped that already existed, and they not in fact part of what created it.