Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Synonyms: Danis ferox Desmarest 1817, Melanarctos cavifrons Heude 1898, Mylarctos pruinosus Blyth 1854, Myrmarctos eversmanni Gray 1864, Ursus ferox Desmarest 1817, Ursus horribilis Ord 1815, Ursus procerus Miller, Jr. 1899, Ursus pruinosus Blyth 1854
Full reference: C. Linnaeus. 1758. Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Classes, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Synonymis, Locis. Editio Decima 1:1-824
Belongs to Ursus according to S. Larivière 2001
See also Boule and De Villeneuve 1927, Emslie and Czaplewski 1985, Ewer 1973, Guilday 1968, Hay 1902, Hunt 1998, Kurten 1968, Kurten and Anderson 1980, Linnaeus 1758, Miller 1899, Thomas 1911 and Waits et al. 1999
Sister taxa: Ursus americanus, Ursus arvernensis, Ursus boeckhi, Ursus deningeri, Ursus dentrificius, Ursus etruscus, Ursus inopinatus, Ursus japonicus, Ursus kokeni, Ursus malayanus, Ursus maritimus, Ursus praemalayanus, Ursus priscus, Ursus spelaeus, Ursus thibetanus, Thalassarctos jenaensis, Thalassarctos eogroenlandicus, Thalassarctos spitzbergensis, Thalassarctos labradorensis, Ursus (Euarctos) vitabilis, Euarctos optimus, Euarctos minimus
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (3: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec collections), China (2), France (1), Germany (3), Greece (4), Hungary (1), Italy (8), Japan (4), Monaco (1), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (1), Portugal (2), the Russian Federation (4), Spain (6), Taiwan (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (8: Alaska, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Texas, Washington, Wyoming)
Total: 55 collections each including a single occurrence
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