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The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is a prehistoric species of bear that lived in Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene and became extinct about 24,000 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum. Both the word cave and the scientific name spelaeus are used because fossils of this species were mostly found in caves .
Ursus is a genus in the family Ursidae that includes the widely distributed brown bear, [3] the polar bear, [4] the American black bear, and the Asian black bear. The name is derived from the Latin ursus , meaning bear .
This list shows the IUCN Red List status of the 58 mammal species occurring in Albania.One of them is endangered, one is vulnerable, and four are near threatened.The following tags are used to highlight each species' status as published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
Ursus americanus (Pallas, 1780) – American black bear; Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758 – brown bear †Ursus deningeri Richenau, 1904 †Ursus dolinensis (Garcia & Arsuaga, 2001) †Ursus etruscus Cuvier, 1823 †Ursus ingressus Rabeder, Hofreiter, Nagel & Withalm 2004 †Ursus kudarensis Baryshnikov, 1985; Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774 ...
Ursus kudarensis is an extinct species of the cave bear complex that lived in the Caucasus Mountains during the Pleistocene epoch. [1] See also. Cave bear; Brown bear;
Etruscan bear Temporal range: Early Pleistocene Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Fossils Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Carnivora Family: Ursidae Genus: Ursus Species: † U. etruscus Binomial name † Ursus etruscus Cuvier, 1823 The Etruscan bear (Ursus etruscus) is an extinct species of bear, endemic to Europe, Asia ...
Fossil of the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus), a relative of the brown bear and polar bear from the Pleistocene epoch in Europe. The subfamily Ursinae experienced a dramatic proliferation of taxa about 5.3–4.5 Mya, coincident with major environmental changes; the first members of the genus Ursus appeared around this time.
Ursus ingressus and Ursus spelaeus evolved from Ursus deningeri and probably diverged between 173,000 and 414,000, or possibly as much as 600,000 years ago. [6] [2] Some studies still question whether U. ingressus and U. spelaeus are separate species, instead treating them as subspecies of a single species.