Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Full reference: J. W. Gidley. 1913. Preliminary report on a recently discovered Pleistocene cave deposit near Cumberland, Maryland. Proceedings of The United States National Museum 46:93-102
Belongs to Ursus (Euarctos) according to J. W. Gidley 1913
See also Kurten and Anderson 1980
Sister taxa: Ursus americanus, Ursus arctos, Ursus arvernensis, Ursus boeckhi, Ursus deningeri, Ursus dentrificius, Ursus etruscus, Ursus inopinatus, Ursus japonicus, Ursus kokeni, Ursus malayanus, Ursus maritimus, Ursus praemalayanus, Ursus priscus, Ursus spelaeus, Ursus thibetanus, Euarctos optimus, Euarctos minimus, Thalassarctos eogroenlandicus, Thalassarctos spitzbergensis, Thalassarctos jenaensis, Thalassarctos labradorensis
Type specimen: USNM 7665, a mandible. Its type locality is McKinely Central Church, which is in a Permian terrestrial limestone in the Gilmore Formation of West Virginia.
Ecology: ground dwelling herbivore-carnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Ursus (Euarctos) vitabilis in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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