Fossil Brown Bears of Slovakia
[Abstract] The fossil remains of bears are very frequently found in the karst sediments of the Western Carpathians. Besides cave bears, two taxa of fossil brown bears (Ursus tauba -chensis, Ursus arctos priscus) have been present in the Slovak territory during the Late Pleistocene Period too. Recent...
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ftunivcoruna:oai:ruc.udc.es:2183/6521 2023-05-15T18:41:36+02:00 Fossil Brown Bears of Slovakia Los osos pardos fósiles de Eslovaquia Sabol, M. 2001 http://hdl.handle.net/2183/6521 eng eng Universidade da Coruña Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe, 2001, 26: 311-316 ISSN: 00213-4497 0213-4497 http://hdl.handle.net/2183/6521 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Brown bears Late Pleistocene Holocene Western Carpathians Slovakia info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2001 ftunivcoruna 2021-12-30T14:08:08Z [Abstract] The fossil remains of bears are very frequently found in the karst sediments of the Western Carpathians. Besides cave bears, two taxa of fossil brown bears (Ursus tauba -chensis, Ursus arctos priscus) have been present in the Slovak territory during the Late Pleistocene Period too. Recent European brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is appearing in the Western Carpathians Mountains at the beginning of the Holocene or already at the end of the Pleistocene Period respectively. So far, osteological remains of arctoid bears have been described from 23 Slovak localities. The most frequently, these remains belong to the taxon Ursus arctos ssp. or to the recent subspecies Ursus arctos arctos. The fossil findings of brown bears from the Late Pleistocene are less frequent. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ursus arctos RUC - Repositorio Universidade Coruña Fósiles ENVELOPE(-56.866,-56.866,-64.300,-64.300) |
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[Abstract] The fossil remains of bears are very frequently found in the karst sediments of the Western Carpathians. Besides cave bears, two taxa of fossil brown bears (Ursus tauba -chensis, Ursus arctos priscus) have been present in the Slovak territory during the Late Pleistocene Period too. Recent European brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos) is appearing in the Western Carpathians Mountains at the beginning of the Holocene or already at the end of the Pleistocene Period respectively. So far, osteological remains of arctoid bears have been described from 23 Slovak localities. The most frequently, these remains belong to the taxon Ursus arctos ssp. or to the recent subspecies Ursus arctos arctos. The fossil findings of brown bears from the Late Pleistocene are less frequent. |
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Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Sabol, M. |
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Sabol, M. |
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Sabol, M. |
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Fossil Brown Bears of Slovakia |
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Fossil Brown Bears of Slovakia |
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Fossil Brown Bears of Slovakia |
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Fossil Brown Bears of Slovakia |
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Fossil Brown Bears of Slovakia |
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fossil brown bears of slovakia |
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Universidade da Coruña |
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2001 |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2183/6521 |
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ENVELOPE(-56.866,-56.866,-64.300,-64.300) |
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Fósiles |
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Ursus arctos |
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Cadernos do Laboratorio Xeolóxico de Laxe, 2001, 26: 311-316 ISSN: 00213-4497 0213-4497 http://hdl.handle.net/2183/6521 |
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