Florida Cave Bear

Florida Cave Bear

Taxobox
name = "Tremarctos flordianus"
fossil_range = Pleistocene
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Ursidae
subfamilia = Tremarctinae
genus = "Tremarctos"
species = "T. flordianus"
species_authority = Gidley, 1928
binomial = †"Tremarctos flordianus"

The Florida cave bear ("Tremarctos floridanus") is a species of extinct North American bear that lived during the Pleistocene epoch. "T. floridanus" was widely distributed south of the continental ice sheet, along the Gulf Coast across through Florida and north to Tennessee, and across the southern United States to California.

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 family Tremarctinae. They became extinct at the end of the last ice age due to some combination of climate change and hunting by newly arrived Paleo-Indians.

References

[http://www.fossil-treasures-of-florida.com/cave-bear.html]


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