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Figure 10

From: A basal ursine bear (Protarctos abstrusus) from the Pliocene High Arctic reveals Eurasian affinities and a diet rich in fermentable sugars

Figure 10

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

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