Reconstruction of the Mid-Pliocene <i>Protarctos abstrusus</i> (IMAGE)

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Reconstruction of the Mid-Pliocene <i>Protarctos abstrusus</i>

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Reconstruction of the mid-Pliocene Protarctos abstrusus in the Beaver Pond site area during the late summer. An extinct beaver, Dipoides, is shown carrying a tree branch in water. Plants include black crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) with ripened berries along the path of the bear, dwarf birch (Betula nana) in foreground; sweet gale (Myrica gale) carried by the beaver, sedges in water margins, flowering buckbeans along the mounds behind the beaver, and larch trees in distant background.

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Art by Mauricio Antón based on research of this paper and with input on plant community from Alice Telka.

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