Robin trayler
Background
Robin received his B.A. degree in Anthropology from California State University, Fresno. He recently completed a study of mastodon (Mammut americanum) specimens in the Rancho La Brea collection of the University of California Museum of Paleontology.
Thesis Research
Robin is beginning his master's thesis research on stable isotope analysis of megaherbivores and large carnivores from the late Pleistocene McKittrick tar seeps in Kern County, California. The results will permit paleoecological comparisons between the McKittrick and Rancho La Brea faunas.
Publications
Trayler, Robin B. and Robert G. Dundas. 2009. American Mastodon (Mammut americanum) in the Rancho La Brea Collection of the University of California Museum of Paleontology. Current Research in the Pleistocene, v.26, pp.184-186.
Trayler, Robin B. and Robert G. Dundas. 2009. Rancho La Brea Mastodons, Are They Smaller Than Mammut Found Elsewhere in the United States? Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs, v.41, n.7, p.454.