2 A Landscape Rich With Life
Text: James R. and Laurie J. Macdonald
Illustrations: Jay H. Matternes
This mural depicts life in the Agate Fossil Beds area in the early Miocene Epoch, about 20 million years ago when the story on the following pages takes place. The painting is a composite of life at that time; if you had been there then, you would not have been able to see all of these forms of life together at any given moment! The original mural hangs in the fossil halls at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
1/Moropus 2/Promerycochoerus 3/Menoceras 4/Oxydactylus 5/Daphoenodon 6/Stenomylus 7/Dinohyus 8/Merychyus 9/Palaeocastor 10/Parahippus 11/Syndyoceras