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Description: | Specimen of a fossil mammal (tooth), a Cave Bear, Ursus spelaeus, collected from the Beestonian Zone of Quaternary, Early to Middle Pleistocene age.
The Cave Bear was about one third larger than the living Brown Bear and found all over northern Eurasia until they became extinct about 70 000 years ago. Climate changes during a glaciation (ice age) destroyed their coniferous (evergreen) forest habitat and food supply. As its name implies the bear lived in caves and so its teeth are often found in cave deposits. In summer the Cave Bear fed mainly on plant foods it found in the coniferous forests.
It is from the Quaternary period (1.8 - 0 million years ago) | Publisher: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Subjects: | Classification: Chordata Mammalia | Temporal: | Quaternary period (1.8 - 0 million years ago) | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/geofinder/se... | Go to resource |
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