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Tremarctos

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Tremarctos
Temporal range: Pliocene - Recent, 5.333–0 Ma
Spectacled bear, Tremarctos ornatus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Subfamily: Tremarctinae
Genus: Tremarctos
Gervais, 1855
Type species
Tremarctos ornatus
Cuvier, 1825
Species

Tremarctos floridanus (Gildey, 1928)
Tremarctos ornatus (Cuvier, 1825)

Tremarctos is a genus of the bear subfamily Tremarctinae, endemic to Americas from the Pliocene to recent. The northern species, the Florida short-faced bear, became extinct 11,000 years ago.[1] The sole living Tremarctos species is the South American spectacled bear.

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References

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  1. ^ B. Kurten & E. Anderson (1980): Pleistocene mammals of North America, pp 1-442. Columbia University Press