A basal ursine bear (Protarctos abstrusus) from the Pliocene High Arctic reveals Eurasian affinities and a diet rich in fermentable sugars

The skeletal remains of a small bear (Protarctos abstrusus) were collected at the Beaver Pond fossil site in the High Arctic (Ellesmere I., Nunavut). This mid-Pliocene deposit has also yielded 12 other mammals and the remains of a boreal-forest community. Phylogenetic analysis reveals this bear to b...

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Autores principales: Wang, Xiaoming, Rybczynski, Natalia, Harington, C. Richard, White, Stuart C., Tedford, Richard H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735171/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29255278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17657-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735171/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29255278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17657-8

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