Ursus kanivetz Vereshchagin, 1973
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Ursus kanivets Vereshchagin, 1973 [orth. error used by Kosintsev et al., 2022]; Ursus ingressus Rabeder, Hofreiter, Nagel & Withalm, 2004:59
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Europe
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Vereshchagin, N. K. (1973). Craniometrical characteristic of recent and fossil bears (in Russian). Zoologicheski Zhurnal 52: 920-930.
Other references:
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Kosintsev, Pavel A., Simonova, G. V. and Konovalova, K. Yu. (2023). First Data on Nutrition of the Ural Cave Bear Ursus (Spelaearctos) kanivetz Verestchagin, 1973 (Mammalia, Carnivora, Ursidae) as Based on 13C and 15N Isotope Analyses. Doklady Biological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496623700357
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Sivkova, T. N. and Kosintsev, P. A. (2021). First Find of Eggs of the Nematode Baylisascaris transfuga Rudolphi, 1819 (Ascaridoidea, Nematoda) in the Late Pleistocene. Doklady Biological Sciences 499: 103-104. https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496621040062