Tremarctos floridanus
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Not to be confused with Florida black bear.
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 widespread in the Southeastern United States during the Rancholabrean epoch (250,000–11,000 years ago), with scattered reports of fossils from other parts of North America and from earlier epochs.
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Tremarctos floridanus | |
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T. floridanus skeleton | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Ursidae |
Genus: | Tremarctos |
Species: | †T. floridanus |
Binomial name | |
†Tremarctos floridanus (Gidley, 1928) | |
Synonyms | |
Arctodus floridanus Gidley, 1928 |
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