Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Belongs to Ursus according to M. Boule and L. De Villeneuve 1927
See also Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi 1995, D'Erasmo 1933, Kurten 1968 and Mantell 1850
Sister taxa: Ursus americanus, Ursus arctos, 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 thibetanus, Thalassarctos eogroenlandicus, Thalassarctos labradorensis, Thalassarctos jenaensis, Thalassarctos spitzbergensis, Euarctos minimus, Euarctos optimus, Ursus (Euarctos) vitabilis
Subtaxa: Ursus spelaeus spelaeus
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection), Germany (3), Greece (3), Hungary (2), Italy (10), Kazakhstan (1), Monaco (2), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (5)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Italy (1)
• Pliocene of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 30 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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