Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Belongs to Ursus according to G. D. Koufos et al. 2018
See also 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, Thalassarctos eogroenlandicus, Thalassarctos jenaensis, Thalassarctos spitzbergensis, Thalassarctos labradorensis, Euarctos minimus, Euarctos optimus, Ursus (Euarctos) vitabilis
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Croatia (2 collections), France (7), Georgia (1), Germany (1), Greece (2), Hungary (1), Israel (2), Italy (11), Romania (2), Spain (5)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of China (1), France (1), Greece (2), Italy (1)
• Pliocene of France (1), Greece (5), Hungary (2), Morocco (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Tajikistan (4)
Total: 55 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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