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Cave Bear - Fossilised tusk - Ursus spelaeus - 100 mm - 38 mm
No. 77950647
No. 77950647
Scientific name: Ursus spelaeus (Ice Age Cave Bear) - Left Dentary juvenile specimen.
Location: Cave in North Poland
Geological Formation: Cave Pleistocene deposits of Poland.
Age: Upper Pleistocene, (~50.000 Years)
Size: 15,5cm long
Ref: A137
The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is a prehistoric huge species of bear that lived in Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene and became extinct about 24,000 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum. Both the word cave and the scientific name spelaeus are used because fossils of this species were mostly found in caves.
Observations: Juvenile individual with all teeth, including the emerging canine fang.
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