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02-03-2016, 08:10 PM( This post was last modified: 02-03-2016, 08:11 PM by brotherbear )
Ice Age Mammals of North America by Ian M. Lange.
Subfamily Tremarctinae.
The subfamily Tremarctinae included extinct species within the genera Tremarctos and Arctodus. One species of Tremarctos, the spectacled bear ( Tremarctos ornatus ), still resides in South America. Extinct species of bears that roamed North America during the Ice Age until its bitter end about 10,000 years ago included the Florida cave bear ( Tremarctos floridanus ) and the so-called 'bulldog bears,' the giant short-faced bear ( Arctodus simus ) and the lesser short-faced bear ( Arctodus pristinus ).