Tremarctos
Tremarctos Temporal range: Pliocene - Recent,
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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
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Species | |
†Tremarctos floridanus (Gildey, 1928) |
Tremarctos is a genus of the bear 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[]
- † Tremarctos floridanus - Florida short-faced bear
- Tremarctos ornatus - spectacled bear
References[]
- ^ B. Kurten & E. Anderson (1980): Pleistocene mammals of North America, pp 1-442. Columbia University Press
Categories:
- Bears
- Mammal genera
- Mammal genera with one living species
- Taxa named by Paul Gervais
- Extant Pliocene first appearances
- Fossil taxa described in 1855
- Carnivora stubs