Pliocene Rhinoceros, Mastodonts

Description: Pliocene Rhinoceros, Mastodonts, Oreodonts Charles R. Knight painting. Four-tusked mastodon Trilophodon (in the center), and the rhinoceros Teleoceras (on the left), which lived on the Great Plains of North America at the close of the Miocene Cenozoic period (about fifteen million years ago) on the banks of a broad and shallow river near the close of the Miocene period, fifteen million years ago. The small animals at the right are oreodonts or contemporary pig-like animals. From a mural painting by Mr, Charles H. Knight.
Attribution: (c) Field Museum of Natural History
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  • Geology
Date: Circa 1935
Physical Size and Format: 4x5 in. b/w negative
Citation: (c) Field Museum of Natural History. CC BY-NC 4.0. https://mm.fieldmuseum.org/3b8fb8a0-4c4c-470c-8166-e65084f7f58d (accessed on 29 Oct 2021)
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Pliocene Rhinoceros, Mastodonts, Oreodonts Charles R. Knight painting. Four-tusked mastodon Trilophodon (in the center), and the rhinoceros Teleoceras (on the left), which lived on the Great Plains of North America at the close of the Miocene Cenozoic period (about fifteen million years ago) on the banks of a broad and shallow river near the close of the Miocene period, fifteen million years ago. The small animals at the right are oreodonts or contemporary pig-like animals. From a mural painting by Mr, Charles H. Knight.
IRN: 2005794
GUID: 3b8fb8a0-4c4c-470c-8166-e65084f7f58d