Ursus etruscus (the Etruscan bear) is an extinct species of bear, endemic to Europe, Asia and North Africa during the Pliocene through Pleistocene, living from ~5.3 million to 100,000 years ago.
ago. Ursusetruscus appears to have evolved from Ursus minimus and gave rise to the modern brown bear, Ursus arctos, and the extinct cave bear, Ursus spelaeus...
for about 3.5 million years. U. minimus appears to have given rise to Ursusetruscus. The range of U. minimus was continental Europe, as far east as the...
brown bears and Ursusetruscus. It also has derived characters of cave bears (Ursus spelaeus) and is considered to be the descendant of Ursus savini and very...
evolved from Ursusetruscus in Asia. The brown bear, per Kurten (1976), has been stated as "clearly derived from the Asian population of Ursus savini about...
prominent in the northern sky. Bear taxon names such as Ursidae and Ursus come from Latin Ursus/Ursa, he-bear/she-bear. The female first name "Ursula", originally...
are thought to be descended from the Plio-Pleistocene Etruscan bear (Ursusetruscus) that lived about 5.3 Mya to 100,000 years ago. The last common ancestor...
Pérez-Hidalgo, T.; José, T. (1992). "The European descendants of Ursusetruscus C. Cuvier (Mammalia, Carnivora, Ursidae)". Boletín del Instituto Geológico...
of Ursusetruscus, specifically the early, small variety of the Middle Villafranchian (Upper Pliocene to Lower Pleistocene) or a larger form of Ursus minimus...
brown bear, or Iberian bear (formerly Ursus arctos pyrenaicus) is a population of Eurasian brown bears (Ursus arctos arctos) living in the Cantabrian...
bears (Ursus arctos) and noticeably gracile features of the cranial and mandibular bones, that to some extent resemble those of Ursus arctos and Ursus etruscus...
gombaszoegensis (the European jaguar), Ursusetruscus (the Etruscan bear), Equus stenonis (the Stenon zebra), Stephanorhinus etruscus (the Etruscan rhinoceros), Pachystruthio...
Ailuropoda fovealis/Ailuropoda melanoleuca fovealis. Fossil material of Ursusetruscus, expanding knowledge of the morphological diversity and evolution of...
holotype of this species was found. Ursus ingressus was a large cave bear with massive, bulky limbs. It was larger than Ursus spelaeus, which has been estimated...
Ursus rossicus (the Pleistocene small cave bear) is an extinct species of bear that lived in the steppe regions of northern Eurasia and Siberia during...
the mandibles of cave and brown bears and their ancestors (Ursus minimus and Ursusetruscus) is published by Baryshnikov, Puzachenko & Baryshnikova (2018)...