Indarctos

Indarctos; Temporal range: Miocene, 11.1–5.3 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	I. atticus skull
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Ursidae
Tribe:	†Agriotheriini
Genus:	†Indarctos; Pilgrim, 1913
Type species
	†Indarctos salmontanus; Pilgrim, 1913
Species
	†I. punjabiensis (Lydekker, 1884); †I. zdanskyi (Qiu & Tedford, 2003); †I. sinensis (Zdansky, 1924); †I. vireti (Villalta & Crusafont, 1943); †I. arctoides (Deperet, 1895); †I. anthracitis (Weithofer, 1888); †I. salmontanus (Pilgrim, 1913); †I. atticus (Weithofer, 1888); †I. bakalovi (Kovachev, 1988); †I. lagrelli (Zdansky, 1924); †I. oregonensis (Merriam et al., 1916); †I. nevadensis (Macdonald, 1959)

Indarctos is an extinct genus of bear, endemic to North America, Europe and Asia during the Miocene. It was present from ~11.1 to 5.3 Ma, existing for approximately 6.2 million years.

The oldest member is from Arizona (~11.1—7.7 Ma) and youngest is (~9.0—5.3 Ma) from Kazakhstan. In North America this animal was contemporary with Plionarctos (~10.3—3.3 Ma).

^ Qiu, Zhan-Xiang; Tedford, R. H. (2003). "Shānxī bǎo dé yìndù xióngyīxīn zhǒng" 山西保德印度熊一新种 [A New Species of *Indarctos* from Baode, China] (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 41 (4): 278–288.
^ MacDonald, J. R. (1959). "The Middle Pliocene Mammalian Fauna from Smiths Valley, Nevada". Journal of Paleontology. 33 (5): 872–887. JSTOR 1300922.

[1] Qiu, Zhan-Xiang; Tedford, R. H. (2003). "Shānxī bǎo dé yìndù xióngyīxīn zhǒng" 山西保德印度熊一新种 [A New Species of *Indarctos* from Baode, China] (PDF). Vertebrata PalAsiatica. 41 (4): 278–288.

[2] MacDonald, J. R. (1959). "The Middle Pliocene Mammalian Fauna from Smiths Valley, Nevada". Journal of Paleontology. 33 (5): 872–887. JSTOR 1300922.

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Indarctos Temporal range: Miocene, 11.1–5.3 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N

I. atticus skull
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Family:	Ursidae
Tribe:	†Agriotheriini
Genus:	†Indarctos Pilgrim, 1913
Type species
†Indarctos salmontanus Pilgrim, 1913
Species
†I. punjabiensis (Lydekker, 1884) †I. zdanskyi (Qiu & Tedford, 2003)^[1] †I. sinensis (Zdansky, 1924) †I. vireti (Villalta & Crusafont, 1943) †I. arctoides (Deperet, 1895) †I. anthracitis (Weithofer, 1888) †I. salmontanus (Pilgrim, 1913) †I. atticus (Weithofer, 1888) †I. bakalovi (Kovachev, 1988) †I. lagrelli (Zdansky, 1924) †I. oregonensis (Merriam et al., 1916) †I. nevadensis (Macdonald, 1959)^[2]