Arctotherium ("bear beast") is an extinct genus of the Pleistocene short-faced bears endemic to Central and South America. Arctotherium migrated from...

pristinus and A. simus), the South American giant short-faced bear Arctotherium (including A. angustidens, A. vetustum, A. bonariense, A. wingei, and...

California, by J. A. Richardson in 1878, and were initially described as Arctotherium simum by Edward Drinker Cope in 1879. Historically, all specimens were...

proposed the humerus represents that of a bear, possibly the extinct Arctotherium, and not a cat. Fossils attributed to Panthera balamoides were first...

Tremarctos floridanus, and the giant short-faced bears (Arctodus and Arctotherium), which became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene around 12,000 years...

short-faced bears (genus Arctodus), the South American short-faced bears (Arctotherium), and the spectacled bears, Tremarctos, represented by both an extinct...

(2.2–0.3 Mya) A. simus (giant short-faced bear) (1.1–0.012 Mya) Genus Arctotherium† A. angustidens (1.2–0.7 Mya) A. bonariense (0.6–0.037 Mya) A. tarijense...

equines belonging to the genus Hippidion, the giant short-faced bear Arctotherium, and the large sabertooth cat Smilodon. The extinct fox Dusicyon avus...

(car-sized relatives of armadillos) Glyptodon and Doedicurus, the bear Arctotherium and the sabertooth cat Smilodon populator. Skeleton of the giant ground...

other authors suggest that the remains are actually of the extinct bear Arctotherium instead. Panthera blytheae Tibetan Plateau, ~4.4 MYA Initially described...