Aurorarctos
Aurorarctos is an extinct North American genus of bears in the Ursinae subfamily. It contains a single species, Aurorarctos tirawa, which lived in the Middle Miocene (15–12.5 Mya). The genus name combines the Latin words aurora (dawn) and Greek arctos (bear); the specific epithet references the creation god Tirawa in Pawnee mythology.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Subfamily: | Ursinae |
| Genus: | †Aurorarctos Jiangzuo & Flynn, 2020[1] |
| Species: | †A. tirawa |
| Binomial name | |
| †Aurorarctos tirawa Jiangzuo & Flynn, 2020 | |
References
- Jiangzuo, Qigao; Flynn, John J. (2020). "The earliest ursine bear demonstrates the origin of plant-dominated omnivory in Carnivora". iScience. 23 (6): Article 101235. Bibcode:2020iSci...23j1235J. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2020.101235. PMC 7303987. PMID 32559731.
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