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Ursus spelaeus (cave bear)
Taxonomy
Ursus spelaeus was named by Rosenmüller (1794).
Subspecies
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1794 | Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller |
| 1850 | Ursus spelaeus Mantell p. 169 |
| 1927 | Ursus spelaeus Boule and De Villeneuve p. 73 |
| 1968 | Ursus spelaeus Kurten p. 122 |
| 1995 | Ursus spelaeus Capasso Barbato and Gliozzi p. 241 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller 1794 [cave bear]
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†Ursus spelaeus spelaeus Rossenbüller 1794
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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| Source: f = family, subc = subclass, c = class, subp = subphylum | |||||
| References: Lillegraven 1979, Carroll 1988, Nowak 1991, Ji et al. 2002, Hendy et al. 2009 | |||||
Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.01170 Ma
Collections (30 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late/Upper Pliocene | United Kingdom (England) | Ursus spelaeus (77753) | |
| Piacenzian - Calabrian | Italy (Basilicata) | Ursus spelaeus (38087) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | United Kingdom (England) | Ursus spelaeus (77750 77751) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Germany (Thüringen) | Ursus spelaeus (45065 45069) | |
| Pleistocene | Greece (Chalkidiki) | Ursus spelaeus (183123) | |
| Pleistocene | Greece (Attica) | Ursus spelaeus (182753) | |
| Pleistocene | Italy | Ursus spelaeus (96717 96718) | |
| Pleistocene | Italy (Verona) | Ursus spelaeus (43656) | |
| Pleistocene | United Kingdom (England) | Ursus spelaeus (77749) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Hungary | Ursus spelaeus (35045) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Germany (Baden-Wuerttemberg) | Ursus spelaeus (50259) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Trieste) | Ursus spelaeus (43701) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Vicenza) | Ursus spelaeus (43666) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | United Kingdom (Norfolk) | Ursus spelaeus (49816) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Capri Island) | Ursus spelaeus (43016) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy (Verona) | Ursus spelaeus (43654 43664) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | United Kingdom (England) | Ursus spelaeus (58419) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | France (Haute-Garonne) | Ursus spelaeus (49089) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Monaco | Ursus spelaeus (191726) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Kazakhstan | Ursus spelaeus (40497) | |
| Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene | Italy (Trieste) | Ursus spelaeus (43702) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Hungary (Barany) | Ursus spelaeus (197461) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Monaco | Ursus spelaeus (191725) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Italy (Tuscany) | Ursus spelaeus (200295) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Greece (Drama) | Ursus spelaeus (204391) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | Spain | Ursus spelaeus (197938) |