Short-faced bear
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| Short-faced bears Temporal range: Middle to Late Pleistocene |
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| Restoration of Arctodus simus | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Subfamily: | Ursinae |
| Tribe: | Tremarctini |
| Genus: | †Arctodus Leidy, 1854 |
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The Short-faced bear or bulldog bear (Arctodus) is an extinct genus of bear endemic to North America during the Pleistocene ~3.0 Ma.—11,000 years ago, existing for approximately 2.989 million years. Arctodus simus may have once been Earth's largest mammalian, terrestrial carnivore.
