Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 620144, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117647, Moscow, Russia.
Dokl Biol Sci. 2020 Mar;491(1):35-38. doi: 10.1134/S0012496620020040. Epub 2020 Jun 1.
A fragment of a bear skull with partially preserved dentition is descibed from the Lower Pleistocene deposits of the Taurida cave (Crimea). The presence of P1-P3, the structure of P4, and sizes of the cheek teeth enable the identification of the specimen as Ursus etruscus Cuvier, 1823. The new find is the first in Crimea and the entire Russia and is of great interest due to rarity of this species in the Pleistocene of Eastern Europe.
描述了一个来自克里米亚 Taurida 洞穴下部更新世沉积物的部分保存牙齿的熊头骨碎片。P1-P3 的存在、P4 的结构和颊齿的大小使得该标本被鉴定为 Ursus etruscus Cuvier，1823。这是在克里米亚和整个俄罗斯的首次发现，由于该物种在东欧更新世的稀有性，因此非常有趣。
