Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Belongs to Ursus according to R. Dehm 1962
See also Koufos et al. 2018, Kurten 1968 and Medin et al. 2017
Sister taxa: Ursus americanus, Ursus arctos, Ursus arvernensis, Ursus boeckhi, Ursus deningeri, Ursus dentrificius, Ursus inopinatus, Ursus japonicus, Ursus kokeni, Ursus malayanus, Ursus maritimus, Ursus praemalayanus, Ursus priscus, Ursus spelaeus, Ursus thibetanus, Euarctos optimus, Euarctos minimus, Thalassarctos eogroenlandicus, Thalassarctos spitzbergensis, Thalassarctos jenaensis, Thalassarctos labradorensis
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Croatia (2 collections), France (7), Georgia (1), Germany (2), Greece (2), Hungary (1), Israel (2), Italy (12), Romania (2), Spain (5)
• MN 16 of France (1)
• Villafranchian of Greece (2), Hungary (1), Spain (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), France (1), Greece (2), Italy (1)
• Pliocene of Greece (3), Hungary (1), Morocco (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Tajikistan (4)
Total: 57 collections each including a single occurrence
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