Arctotherium wingei Ameghino, 1902
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Bolivia, Brazil & Venezuela
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: MACN 1453, from Tarija Valley, Bolivia
Media
References
M. Boule and A. Thevenin. 1920. Mammiféres fossiles de Tarija.
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Lopes, Renato Pereira et al. (2021). The Santa Vitória Alloformation: an update on a Pleistocene fossil-rich unit in Southern Brazil. Brazilian Journal of Geology 51(1): e2020065.
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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. and Rincón, Ascanio D. (2007). The fossil record of the short-faced bears (Ursidae, Tremarctinae) from Venezuela. Systematic, biogeographic, and paleoecological implications. N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Abh. 244(3):287-298.
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