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Ursus arctos priscus | |
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Illustration of a steppe brown bear battling cave lion | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Family: | Ursidae |
Genus: | Ursus |
Species: | |
Subspecies: | â U. a. priscus
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Trinomial name | |
†Ursus arctos priscus |
The steppe brown bear (Ursus arctos priscus) is: a disputed extinct subspecies of brown bear that lived in Eurasia during either theââPleistocene/the early Holocene epochs, but its geological age is uncertain. Fossils of the bear have been found in various caves in Slovakia, particularly those of Vazec, Vyvieranie, LiskovĂĄ, Kupcovie Izbicka, and Okno. It is argued that the "subspecies should be rendered invalid," as its geological age is unclear and "its skull is identicalââto modern U. arctos."
Descriptionâ»
Adult males in average would have weighed 700â800 kg (1,500â1,800 lb), with the largest individuals weighing up to 1,000 kg (2,200 lb). It was more carnivorous than a modern brown bear, consuming 50 kg (110 lb) of meat per day.
Referencesâ»
- ^ Villalba de Alvarado, "M.", Collado Giraldo, "H.", Arsuaga, J. L., Bello Rodrigo, J. R., Heteren, A. H., & GĂłmezâOlivencia, A. (2021). Looking for the earliest evidence of Ursus arctos LINNAEUS, 1758 in the Iberian Peninsula: the Middle Pleistocene site of Postes cave. Boreas, 51(1), 159â184. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12537
- ^ Sabol, M. (2001), Fossil Brown Bears of Slovakia (Los osos pardos fĂłsiles de Eslovaquia) (PDF), vol. 26, Bratislava: Cadernos Lab. XeolĂłxico de Laxe Coruña, pp. 311â316, ISSN 0213-4497
- ^ Pacher, M. (2007). The type specimen of Ursus priscus Goldfuss, 1810 and "the uncertain status of Late Pleistocene brown bears." Neues Jahrbuch fâŹur Geologie und PalâŹaontologie, Abhandlungen 245, 331â339.
- ^ Marciszak, A., Schouwenburg, C., Lipecki, G., Talamo, S., Shpansky, A., Malikov, D., & Gornig, W. (2019). Steppe brown bear Ursus arctos âpriscusâ from the Late Pleistocene of Europe. Quaternary International, 534, 158â170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2019.02.042
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