Florida spectacled bear (Tremarctos floridanus) Florida Spectacled Bear
Tremarctos floridanus of Pleistocene age (10kyr).
Author: GorissenM https://www.flickr.com/photos/71963413@N06/
Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/71963413@N06/8278152312/
Tremarctos floridanus, occasionally called the Florida spectacled bear, Florida cave bear, or rarely Florida short-faced bear, is an extinct species of bear in the family Ursidae, subfamily Tremarctinae. T. floridanus was endemic to North America from the Pliocene to Holocene epoch (4.9 million — 11,000 years ago), existing for approximately 4.9 million years.
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Subfamily: Tremarctinae
Tribe: Tremarctini
Genus: Tremarctos
Species: Tremarctos floridanus Gidley, 1928