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Genus of bears
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Spectacled bear, Tremarctos ornatus | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
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, became extinct 11,000 years ago.[1] The sole living Tremarctos species is the South American spectacled bear.
Species
[edit]- †Tremarctos floridanus - Florida short-faced bear
- Tremarctos ornatus - spectacled bear
References
[edit]- ^ B. Kurten & E. Anderson (1980): Pleistocene mammals of North America, pp 1-442. Columbia University Press
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