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Ursus spelaeus Rosenmüller & Heinroth, 1794 - cave bear jaw from the Pleistocene of Romania.

The cave bear, Ursus spelaeus, was an important component of Europe’s Pleistocene mammalian biota. The species is represented by abundant fossil bones, typically found in cave deposits (the species name “spelaeus” means “cave”). Like extant bears, Ursus spelaeus was omnivorous. It went extinct near the end of the Pleistocene (~10,000 years ago).

Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Carnivora, Ursidae

Age: Pleistocene, 42-100 ka

Locality: unrecorded cave in the Brasov area, Carpathian Mountains, Romania
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Author James St. John

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