Arctotherium tarijense Ameghino, 1902
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Bolivia
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Arnaudo, Maria Eugenia, Bona, Paula, Soibelzon, Leopoldo Hector and Schubert, Blaine W. (2016). Anatomical study of the auditory region of Arctotherium tarijense (Ursidae, Tremarctinae), an extinct short‐faced bear from the Pleistocene of South America. Journal of Anatomy 229(6): 825-837. [Abstract]
M. Boule and A. Thevenin. 1920. Mammiféres fossiles de Tarija.
Prevosti F.J., Vizcaino S.F. 2006 Paleoecology of the large carnivore guild from the late Pleistocene of Argentina. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 51(3): 407-422.
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 L.H., Tonni E.P., Bond M. 2005 The fossil record of South American short-faced bears (Ursidae, Tremarctinae). Journal of South American Earth Sciences 20(1-2), 105-113.