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Post by Gorilla king on Sept 14, 2021 20:38:45 GMT -5
Tremarctos floridanus
Tremarctos floridanus, occasionally called the Florida spectacled bear, Florida cave bear, or rarely Florida short-faced bear, is an extinct species of bear in the family Ursidae, subfamily Tremarctinae. T. floridanus was endemic to North America from the Pliocene to the end of the Pleistocene epoch (4.9 million–12,000 years ago), existing for approximately 4.9 million years.[1]
Environment
T. floridanus was widely distributed south of the continental ice sheet, along the Gulf Coast through Florida, north to Tennessee, and across the southern United States to California.
Arctodus (3 million–11,000 years ago) was a contemporary and shared its habitat with T. floridanus. The closest living relative of the Florida cave bear is the spectacled bear of South America; they are classified together with the huge short-faced bears in the subfamily Tremarctinae. They became extinct at the end of the last ice age, 10,000 years ago (possibly as late as 8,000 years ago at Devil's Den in Florida),[2] due to some combination of climate change and hunting by newly arrived Paleo-Indians.
Taxonomy
Originally, Gidley named this animal Arctodus floridanus in 1928. It was recombined as T. floridanus by Kurten (1963), Lundelius (1972) and Kurten and Anderson (1980).[3][4]
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tremarctos_floridanus
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Post by Gorilla king on Sept 14, 2021 20:53:01 GMT -5
Florida short-faced bear, Florida cave bear (Tremarctos floridanus Gidley, 1928)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Dimensions: length - 2,2 m, height - 100-120 сm, weight - 150-300 kg
Temporal range: from the Pliocene - Holocene epoch of North America (4.9 million — 11,000 years ago)
prehistoric-fauna.com/Tremarctos-floridanus
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Post by Gorilla king on Sept 14, 2021 20:58:08 GMT -5
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Post by Gorilla king on Dec 26, 2021 11:29:25 GMT -5
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Post by arctozilla on Dec 26, 2021 14:28:32 GMT -5
So this bear existed before Florida black bears.
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Post by brobear on Dec 28, 2021 5:06:26 GMT -5
So this bear existed before Florida black bears. Tremarctinae bears were native to the Americas when the ancestors of American black bears came down through Beringia from Asia.
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