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Ursus spelaeus eremus Rabeder, Hofreiter, Nagel & Withalm, 2004:59

Cave bear

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Austria

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Rabeder, G., Hofreiter, M., Nagel, D., Withalm, G. (2004). New taxa of alpine cave bears (Ursidae, Carnivora). Documents des Laboratoires de géologie Lyon, Hors série, 2: 49-68.

 

Other references:

Baryshnikov, Gennady F. and Puzachenko, Andrey Yu. (2018). Morphometry of upper cheek teeth of cave bears (Carnivora, Ursidae). Boreas. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12360 [Abstract]

Kavcik-Graumann, N., Alberti, F., Döppes, D., Friedrich, R., Stockhammer, J., Lindauer, S., Hofreiter, M. & Rabeder, G. (2023). The cave bear fauna of the cave Schottloch (Dachstein Mountains, Austria). e-Research Reports of Museum Burg Golling 12: 1-7.

Pérez-Ramos, Alejandro, Romero, Alejandro, Rodriguez, Ernesto and Figueirido, Borja. (2020b). Three-dimensional dental topography and feeding ecology in the extinct cave bear. Biology Letters. doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0792

Santos, Elena, Gómez-Olivencia, Asier, Arlegi, Mikel and Arsuaga, Juan Luis. (In Press, 2015). Cranial morphological differences within U. deningeriU. spelaeus lineage: A double traditional and geometric morphometrics approach. Quaternary International. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.096 [Abstract]

 

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