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Tremarctos floridanus
146146Florida 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)
Tremarctos floridanus is called the Florida cave bear, is an extinct species of bear in the family Ursidae, subfamily Tremarctinae. T. floridanus is presumed to closely resemble its modern relative that shares the same genus, the spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) found in the Andes Mountains of South America. Florida cave bear became extinct at the end of the last ice age, 11,000 years ago. Despite one such common name, T. floridanus is not considered a close relative of the cave bear, Ursus spelaeus, which belonged to a different genus.
Intermediate in size between the a modern American black bear and grizzly bear, it was noticeably larger than modern South American spectacled bear though still much smaller than the fellow Tremarctinae bear Arctodus. Arctodus was a contemporary of and shared its habitat with T. floridanus.
Like modern spectacled bears, T. floridanus was omnivorous and likely subsisted chiefly on plant material with a majority of animal matter consumed being carrion. Similar to modern American black bear that shares its habitat today; insects, fish, small animals, and hoofed animals such a young deer might have also been hunted on occasion.
It's fossils have been found throughout the Southeastern United States, in northeastern Mexico, and in Belize from the Rancholabrean epoch (250,000–11,000 years ago), and from earlier epochs at some sites in western North America.
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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)
Tremarctos floridanus is called the Florida cave bear, is an extinct species of bear in the family Ursidae, subfamily Tremarctinae. T. floridanus is presumed to closely resemble its modern relative that shares the same genus, the spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) found in the Andes Mountains of South America. Florida cave bear became extinct at the end of the last ice age, 11,000 years ago. Despite one such common name, T. floridanus is not considered a close relative of the cave bear, Ursus spelaeus, which belonged to a different genus.
Intermediate in size between the a modern American black bear and grizzly bear, it was noticeably larger than modern South American spectacled bear though still much smaller than the fellow Tremarctinae bear Arctodus. Arctodus was a contemporary of and shared its habitat with T. floridanus.
Like modern spectacled bears, T. floridanus was omnivorous and likely subsisted chiefly on plant material with a majority of animal matter consumed being carrion. Similar to modern American black bear that shares its habitat today; insects, fish, small animals, and hoofed animals such a young deer might have also been hunted on occasion.
It's fossils have been found throughout the Southeastern United States, in northeastern Mexico, and in Belize from the Rancholabrean epoch (250,000–11,000 years ago), and from earlier epochs at some sites in western North America.
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