Agriotherium

Agriotherium
Temporal range: 13.6–2.5 Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Tribe: †Agriotheriini
Genus: †Agriotherium
Wagner, 1837
Type species
†Ursus sivalensis
(= †Agriotherium sivalensis)
Falconer & Cautley, 1836
Species[1]

†A. myanmarensis (Ogino et al., 2011)
†A. insigne (Gervais, 1859)
†A. inexpetans (Qiu et al., 1991)
†A. palaeindicus (Lydekker, 1878)
†A. sivalensis (Falconer & Cautley, 1836)
†A. africanum (Hendey, 1972)
†A. hendeyi Jiangzuo and Flynn, 2019

Agriotherium is an extinct genus of bears whose fossils are found in Miocene through Pleistocene-aged strata of North America, Eurasia, and Africa. This long-lived genus persisted from at least ~11.6–2.5 Mya.[2] Materials from the late-surviving A. africanum in Africa have suggested that A. africanum died out during the early Gelasian.[3]

  1. ^ Ogino, Shintaro, Naoko Egi, and Masanaru Takai. "New species of Agriotherium (Mammalia, Carnivora) from the late Miocene to early Pliocene of central Myanmar." Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 42.3 (2011): 408-414.
  2. ^ "Fossilworks: Agriotherium". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Fossilworks: Agriotherium africanum". fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 December 2021.