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Portion of a mural depicting middle Eocene Wyoming painted by Jay H. Matternes for the National Museum of Natural History. Mural includes reconstructions of the crocodile Crocodilus sp. (lower right), the condylarth Hyopsodus sp. (upper right), portion of the Jaguar-sized oxyaenid creodont Patriofelis ulta (upper right), the horse Orohippus sp. (upper left), the saber-toothed oxyaenid creodont Machaeroides eothen preying on the monitor-like varanid lizard Saniwa brooksi (lower left), and the turtle Echmatemys sp. (lower middle).
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I've loved this painting since I was very young. It is one of four that appeared in the Time Life Book North America (part of a series called the Life Nature Library). The four paintings were superb, depicting mammals of the Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene Epochs in North America.
Matternes also did prehistoric mammal art for Early Man, South America, and Australia in the same series.
Matternes also did prehistoric mammal art for Early Man, South America, and Australia in the same series.