Tremarctos floridanus

Tremarctos floridanus
Temporal range: Pleistocene–Holocene
T. floridanus skeleton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Tremarctos
Species:
T. floridanus
Binomial name
Tremarctos floridanus
(Gidley, 1928)
Synonyms

Arctodus floridanus Gidley, 1928

Tremarctos floridanus is an extinct species of bear in the family Ursidae, subfamily Tremarctinae. T. floridanus became extinct at the end of the last ice age, 11,000 years ago. It's fossils have been found throughout the Southeastern United States, in northeastern Mexico, and in Belize from the Rancholabrean epoch (250,000–11,000 years ago), and from earlier epochs at some sites in western North America.