Indarctos
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Indarctos Temporal range: Miocene |
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| I. atticus skull | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Caniformia |
| Superfamily: | Arctoidea |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Subfamily: | Ailuropodinae |
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†Indarctini Abella et al., 2012 |
| Genus: |
†Indarctos Pilgrim, 1913 |
| Type species | |
| †Indarctos salmontanus Pilgrim, 1913 |
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| Species | |
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†I. punjabensis (Lydekker, 1884) |
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†I. punjabensis (Lydekker, 1884)
†I. zdanskyi (Qiu & Tedford, 2003)
†I. sinensis (Zdansky, 1924)
†I. vireti (Villalta & Crusafont, 1943)
†I. arctoides (Deperet, 1895)
†I. anthracitis (Weithofer, 1888)
†I. salmontanus (Pilgrim, 1913)
†I. atticus (Weithofer, 1888)
†I. bakalovi (Kovachev, 1988)
†I. lagrelli (Zdansky, 1924)
†I. oregonensis (Merriam et al., 1916)
†I. nevadensis (Macdonald, 1959)
Indarctos is a genus of mammals of the bear family, Ursidae, endemic to North America, Europe and Asia during the Miocene. It was present from ~11.1 to 5.3 Ma, existing for approximately 6.2 million years.
The oldest member is from Arizona (~11.1—7.7 Ma) and youngest is (~9.0—5.3 Ma) from Kazakhstan. In North America this animal was contemporary with Plionarctos (~10.3—3.3 Ma).
Indarctos was named by Pilgrim (1913) Its type is Indarctos salmontanus. It was assigned to Agriotheriini by Chorn and Hoffman (1978); to Ursavini by Hunt (1998); and to Ursidae by Pilgrim (1913), Carroll (1988) and Salesa et al. (2006). Abell et al. (2012) designated the genus in a new tribe Indarctini and assigned it to Ailuropodinae.
Two specimens were examined by Legendre and Roth for body mass.
Sites and specimen ages:
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