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Pliocene to early Middle Pleistocene ursine bears in Europe: a taxonomic overview

SYSNO ASEP	0348550
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Ostatní články
Title	Pliocene to early Middle Pleistocene ursine bears in Europe: a taxonomic overview
Author(s)	Wagner, Jan (GLU-S)_{SAI, RID}
Source Title	Journal of the National Museum, Natural History Series. - : Národní muzeum - ISSN 1802-6842 Roč. 179, - (2010), s. 197-215
Number of pages	19 s.
Publication form	WWW - WWW
Language	eng - English
Country	CZ - Czech Republic
Keywords	Ursus ; taxonomy ; Pliocene ; Pleistocene
Subject RIV	DB - Geology ; Mineralogy
R&D Projects	GA205/09/0184 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
	IAA300130701 GA AV ČR - Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (AV ČR)
CEZ	AV0Z30130516 - GLU-S (2005-2011)
Annotation	The Pliocene to early Middle Pleistocene bear fauna in Europe can be divided into four main morphophyletic groups. All the known Pliocene bears belong to Ursus ex gr. minimus-thibetanus. They represent at least two migration events (MN 14–MN 15a and MN 15b–MN 16b). Representatives of this group were recorded also in the late MN 17 and in the Lower to Middle Toringian. Ursus ex gr. etruscus are present since the early MN 17 and they survived until the Early Biharian. The Early Biharian U. etruscus most likely represents a blind lineage in Europe. The oldest representatives of Ursus ex gr. arctos are known from the late Early Biharian localities, about 1.1 Ma ago (their possible earlier presence – e.g. DA2C1 or Ceyssaguet – require confirmation). The first occurrence of U. deningeri, the oldest taxon in U. ex gr. deningeri-spelaeus, was recorded approximately at the same time.
Workplace	Institute of Geology
Contact	Jana Popelková, popelkova@gli.cas.cz, Sabina Janíčková, Tel.: 233 087 272
Year of Publishing	2011

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