YOUNG ADULT MALE RHINO 1 6 ADULT MALE RHINO " Tusker " " Dr. Marie " Estimated Age: 8-9 years Estimated Age: 10-12 years 11 legs Skeleton (wisdom teeth just coming in) (All permanent teeth in wear) Ashfall The highly polished tooth at BULL RHINO the front of the jaw is a tusk. The bones of this individual show Map The large size of the tusk identifies this animal as a male. well developed bone disease which This rhino is resting belly-down. It's skull is displaced and The thigh bone across it's face was probably pulled from is related to severe lung damage. it has large tusks in the lower jaw. Note the slender horse the carcass of a neighboring rhino by a large predator. leg below the jaw. Beds

2 THREE-TOED HORSE 12 ADULT RHINO 7 SCAVENGED SKELETON This is an adult rhino with State Notice the "side-toes" on each several ribs displaced by foot, the slender legs The chewed and broken bones of this scavengers. Excavation of and light build. camel and the presence of fossilized carnivore scat show that this animal the body cavity revealed clumps of fossil food. Historical was partially eaten. This is Cormohipparion occidentale, one of the larger of the several kinds of Probably ancestral to Old World , living in this area 10 million years ago. this species is called Procamelus grandis. 13 ELDER COW RHINO Park "Brockie"

This elder cow rhino was ADULT FEMALE RHINO 3 " Sandy " discovered by volunteer 8 SMALL DEER SKELETON assistant Norma Brockmoller. WITH BABY RHINO (Longirostromeryx) " Justin "

This close association This individual is partially obscured by a horse skeleton suggests that "Justin", who and a rhino skeleton. It is the smallest animal exposed is about one month old, may in the Rhino Barn. be "Sandy's" calf. Several examples of baby rhinos in 14 3-TOED MARE AND COLT SKELETONS nursing position have been found previously at Ashfall (none in the Rhino Barn yet). This young mare and foal, horse species affine, 9 YOUNG ADULT have been disturbed (by trampling and scavenging?). MALE RHINO However, it is clear that the baby was between the adult's " A. G. " legs when it died. 4 SCAVENGED RHINO CALF Estimated Age: 8-9 years right hind ADULT HORSE BONES After this rhino had died and been (wisdom teeth just coming in) leg of adult partially covered with volcanic ash, IMMATURE HORSE BONES a large predator pulled off the pelvis, Found by student worker Amy Goedert. left hind Covered or missing bones and part of the backbone and ribcage, leg of adult and dragged it several feet to the east. right hind left hind leg of colt leg of colt (passing between hind legs of adult) 10 OLD BULL RHINO " Snag " colt skull bones Estimated Age: 20+ years (all 5 RHINO CALF " T.L." permanent teeth well worn) Note the uneven tooth wear Estimated Age: (malocclusion) resulting in the colt skull Shoulder blade of adult A Joint Project of the 1 year (all milk teeth in wear) "snaggle-toothed" appearance, University of State Museum & Notice the rib separation caused by and large tusks. escaping gasses of decomposition. Nebraska Game and Parks Commission