Detail View: Image Archives: Articulated skeletons in Rancho La Brea exhibit, left side.

File Name: 
IV.2006-2 .jpg
catalog number: 
2006-2
collection: 
Dioramas and Exhibits
title: 
Articulated skeletons in Rancho La Brea exhibit, left side.
creator: 
Christine Powers
creator type: 
creator of digital collection
creator: 
Unknown
creator type: 
photographer
description: 
La Brea Tar Pit exhibit found in the original Fossil Mammal Hall shown during Pleistocene Epoch (2.5 million - 10,000 years ago). Rancho la Brea mounted skeletons (done by Henry Wichers) of giant ground sloth (Paramylodon harlani), Dire wolf (Aenocyon related to the smaller extant gray wolf) and saber-tooth cat (Smilodon). The mural was painted by Mary Chilton Gray showing the giant ground sloth, Smilodon, Aenocyon and Teratornis (large bird twice the size of the California Condor).
date: 
1950-1959
date type: 
date of photograph
location: 
USA, Colorado, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
modified: 
no
format: 
image/jpg
file size: 
2.56 MB
source: 
8 X 10 black and white print scanned at 800 dpi, 16-bit depth with Epson Expression 10000XL
rights: 
use with permission Denver Museum of Nature & Science