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recognized species: the
lesser short-faced bear (
Arctodus pristinus) and the
giant short-faced bear (
Arctodus simus). Of
these species, A.
simus was larger...
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Middle Pleistocene, both
Arctodus and
Arctotherium gave way to new forms;
Arctodus pristinus gave way to the huge
Arctodus simus,
which inhabited a pan-continental...
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genetically closer to the
spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), than to
Arctodus of
North America,
implying the two
extinct forms evolved large size in...
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Fossils of T. florid**** have been
reported from two
sites in Belize.
Arctodus (3 million–11,000
years ago) was a
contemporary and
shared its habitat...
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barstowensis (16–13 Mya) P.
ursinus (16–13 Mya)
Subfamily Tremarctinae Genus Arctodus (short-faced bear)† (2.2–0.012 Mya) A.
pristinus (lesser short-faced bear)...
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Along with
other large bears such as the cave bear, short-faced
bears Arctodus and Arctotherium, and an
extinct subspecies of the
modern polar bear Ursus...
- are the
extinct Tremarctos florid****, and the
giant short-faced
bears (
Arctodus and Arctotherium),
which became extinct at the end of the
Pleistocene around...
- Tara L. (1
February 2018). "On the ****ociation of
giant short-faced bear (
Arctodus simus) and
brown bear (Ursus arctos) in late
Pleistocene North America"...
- Tara L. (1
February 2018). "On the ****ociation of
giant short-faced bear (
Arctodus simus) and
brown bear (Ursus arctos) in late
Pleistocene North America"...
- 240. ISBN 978-0-85112-235-9. Christiansen, P. (1999). "What size were
Arctodus simus and
Ursus spelaeus (Carnivora: Ursidae)?".
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