Ursinae

Ursinae is a subfamily of the family Ursidae (bears).

Ursinae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
UrsidaePBDB
Diet
herbivore, carnivorePBDB, for Ursidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Ursidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 18.5 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 29.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 728 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 50 of 728 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 57 of 728 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 488 of 728 occurrencesPleistocene30–29 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 3 occurrences10–9.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.0–8.0 Mya — about 5 occurrences8.0–7.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences7.0–6.0 Mya — about 4 occurrences6.0–5.0 Mya — about 6 occurrences5.0–4.0 Mya — about 17 occurrences4.0–3.0 Mya — about 25 occurrences3.0–2.0 Mya — about 59 occurrences2.0–1.0 Mya — about 87 occurrences1.0–0 Mya — about 486 occurrences18.5 Mya11.7 ka30.1 Mya0 Mya

728 occurrences of Ursinae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

728 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

66 formations

Cromer Forest Bed — 52.46°N, 1.73°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.94°N, 1.25°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.93°N, 1.30°ECromer Forest Bed — 52.88°N, 1.44°EBermont — 28.80°N, 82.20°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WBermont — 27.00°N, 82.20°WPalm Spring — 32.90°N, 117.10°WTarija — 21.53°S, 64.73°WTarija — 21.50°S, 64.75°WUnterer Travertin — 50.95°N, 11.38°EUnterer Travertin — 50.98°N, 11.31°ERed Crag — 51.96°N, 1.35°ERed Crag — 52.09°N, 1.31°ERed Crag — 52.03°N, 1.32°EPeace River — 27.90°N, 81.80°WPeace River — 27.68°N, 81.95°WRingold — 47.00°N, 118.50°WRingold — 46.30°N, 119.10°WManix — 34.80°N, 117.00°WAmerican Falls Lake Bed E — 42.80°N, 112.90°W'Ubeidiya — 32.68°N, 35.57°ENuapua — 20.75°S, 63.07°WNuapua — 20.87°S, 63.07°WForest Bed — 52.85°N, 1.47°EForest Bed — 52.49°N, 1.53°EWando — 33.22°N, 79.98°WWando — 32.88°N, 80.10°WShuler — 32.71°N, 96.71°WEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°EGerakarou — 40.54°N, 23.42°EJohn Day — 44.20°N, 120.50°WBatesland — 43.13°N, 101.87°WAsh Hollow — 42.70°N, 100.00°WValentine — 40.02°N, 98.53°WWood Mountain — 49.20°N, 106.20°WButte Creek — 43.60°N, 117.50°WEsmeralda — 38.25°N, 117.90°W

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The named rock units Ursinae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 632 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ursinae and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Ursinae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

2,404 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 640 sites for Ursinae, and this reads 240 of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

375 references

Each of the 728 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 363 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ursinae

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CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ursinae was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Swainson 1835