Arctotherium pamparum Ameghino, 1904
Pampas bear
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Pararctotherium pamparum Ameghino, 1904; Arctodus pamparus Ameghino, 1904
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
South America
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Ameghino, F. (1904). Nuevas especies de mamíferos, cretáceos y terciarios de la República Argentina [New species of mammals, Cretaceous and Tertiarty, from the Argentine Republic]. Anales de la Sociedad Cientifica Argentina 56-58: 1-142.
Other 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. 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.