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02-04-2016, 06:46 AM( This post was last modified: 02-04-2016, 06:47 AM by brotherbear )
Ice Age Mammals of North America by Ian M. Lange.
Order Rodentia included a giant capybara of the family Hydrochoeridae called Neochoerus pinckneyi which weighed roughly 155 pounds. There was also a giant beaver of the family Castoridae called Castoroides ohioensis that measured 9 feet long with a shoulder height of 3 feet and weighed roughly from 330 to 440 pounds. I feel certain that both of these big rodents were prey animals for a hungry grizzly. And of course, there were a great many smaller rodents around.