Deninger's bear

English

Etymology

Calque of taxonomic name Ursus deningeri; named in 1904 by the German paleontologist Wilhelm von Reichenau (1847–1925) after the German geologist and paleontologist Karl Deninger (1878–1917).[1]

Noun

Deninger's bear (plural Deninger's bears)

  1. †Ursus deningeri, an extinct species of bear, endemic to Eurasia during the Pleistocene for approximately 1.7 million years, from 1.8 to 0.1 million years ago; it is the ancestor to the later cave bear.

References

  1. ^ Wilhelm von Reichenau (1904) “Über eine neue fossile Bären-Art Ursus deningeri Mihi [About a new fossil bear species Ursus deningeri Mihi [i.e., von Reichenau]]”, in Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde [Yearbooks of the Nassau Society for Natural History] (in German), volume 57, number 1, Wiesbaden: Nassauischer Verein für Naturkunde [Nassau Society for Natural History], →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 1–11.

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