Tremarctos

Tremarctos
Temporal range: Pliocene - Recent, 5.333–0 Ma
Spectacled bear, Tremarctos ornatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Subfamily: Tremarctinae
Genus: Tremarctos
Gervais, 1855
Type species
Tremarctos ornatus
Cuvier, 1825
Species

T. floridanus (Gildey, 1928)
T. ornatus (Cuvier, 1825)

Tremarctos is a genus of the family Ursidae, subfamily Tremarctinae endemic to Americas from the Pliocene to recent. The northern species, the Florida short-faced bear, was extinct 11 000 years ago.[1] The sole living Tremarctos species is the South American spectacled bear.

Species

References

  1. B. Kurten & E. Anderson (1980): Pleistocene mammals of North America, pp 1-442. Columbia University Press


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