Name
Ursus arctos crowtheri.
Phonetic
Ur-sus ark-tos krow-fe-ree.
Named By
Heinrich Rudolf Schinz - 1844.
Classification
Chordata, Mammalia, Carnivora, Ursidae.
Diet
Herbivore/omnivore?
Species
Size
No larger than a black bear, which are known to range from 120-200 centimetres long, 10-105 centimetres high at the shoulder.
Known locations
The Atlas Mountains of north Africa. Especially well known from Morocco.
Time Period
Holocene, possibly going extinct at some point in the late nineteenth century.
Fossil representation
Numerous fossils. Records exist of living bears.
Further reading- Ancient DNA evidence for the loss of a highly divergent brown bear clade during historical times. – Molecular Ecology 17 (8): 1962–1970. S. Calvignac, S. Hughes, C. Tougard, J. Michaux, M. Thevenot, M. Philippe, W. Hamdine & C. Hanni – 2008.
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