Short face bear

Short face bear

Taxobox
name = "Short faced bear"
fossil_range = Pleistocene


image_width = 240px
image_caption = A 1.6 m tall Short faced bear next to a 1.8 m human.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Ursidae
subfamilia = Tremarctinae
genus = †"Arctodus"
genus_authority = Leidy, 1854
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = :†"Arctodus pristinus":†"Arctodus simus"

Short faced bear (Genus: "Arctodus") is an extinct animal of prehistoric bears of the subfamily Tremarctinae. "Arctodus simus", along with many other large mammals, became extinct during the Pleistocene epoch. It was preceded in time by "A. pristinus", an evolutionary cousin or even ancestor of "A. simus", proportionally shorter of leg and longer of muzzle.cite web | url = http://www.beringia.com/02/02maina4.html | title = North American Short-Faced Bear | author = Harrington, C.R. | publisher = Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre | accessdate = 2008-07-19]

References

ee also

*Pleistocene megafauna
*Pleistocene extinctions

External links

* [http://www.uaf.edu/news/a_news/20041111132847.html U. of Alaska Fairbanks: P. Matheus, Ancient fossil offers new clues to brown bears past]
* [http://www.beringia.com/02/02maina4.html Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre]


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