Protarctos abstrusus Bjork 1970

Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae

Alternative combination: Ursus abstrusus

Full reference: P. R. Bjork. 1970. The Carnivora of the Hagerman Local Fauna (Late Pliocene) of Southwestern Idaho. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 60(7):3-54

Belongs to Protarctos according to X. Wang et al. 2017

See also Bjork 1970 and Kurten and Anderson 1980

Sister taxon: Protarctos yinanensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Hagerman (UM-Ida 79-65), which is in a Blancan terrestrial horizon in the Glenns Ferry Formation of Idaho

Distribution:

• Blancan of United States (2: Idaho, Nevada collections)

• Pliocene of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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