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Arctotherium bonariense Gervais, 1852

Buenos Aires bear

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: Ursus bonariensis Gervais, 1852; Arctodus bonariensis Gervais, 1852; Arctotherium bonaerense Gervais, 1852

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Argentina

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Soibelzon, L. H. (2004). Revisión sistemática de los Tremarctinae (Carnivora, Ursidae) fósiles de America del Sur. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales 6(1): 107-133.

Soibelzon, Leopoldo H., Tonni, Eduaro P. and Bond, Mariano. (2005). The fossil record of South American short-faced bears (Ursidae, Tremarctinae). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 20(1-2): 105-113. [Abstract]

E. Trajano and H. Ferrarezzi. (1995 "1994"). A fossil bear from northeastern Brazil, with a phylogenetic analysis of the South American extinct Tremarctinae (Ursidae). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(4): 552-561.

 

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