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Fossil Imprint / Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B – Historia Naturalis
2024/80/2
An anomalous tooth of a cave bear (Ursus kanivetz Vereshchagin, 1973) from Pobeda Cave in the Southern Urals
An anomalous tooth of a cave bear (Ursus kanivetz Vereshchagin, 1973) from Pobeda Cave in the Southern Urals
Pavel A. Kosintsev, Gennady F. Baryshnikov, Dmitriy O. Gimranov, Alan Cooper
| Pages | 452–458 |
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| DOI | 10.37520/fi.2024.032 |
| Keywords | Ursus kanivetz, cave bears, Late Pleistocene, teeth, abnormal development, ancient-DNA analysis |
| Type of Article | Peer-reviewed |
| Citation | KOSINTSEV, Pavel A., BARYSHNIKOV, Gennady F., GIMRANOV, Dmitriy O. a COOPER, Alan. An anomalous tooth of a cave bear (Ursus kanivetz Vereshchagin, 1973) from Pobeda Cave in the Southern Urals. Fossil Imprint / Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B – Historia Naturalis. Prague: National Museum, 2024, 80(2), 452–458. DOI: https://doi.org/10.37520/fi.2024.032. ISSN 2533-4050 (tisk), 2533-4069 (online). Also available from: https://publikace.nm.cz/en/periodicals/fossil-imprint-acta-musei-nationalis-pragae-series-b-historia-naturalis/80-2/an-anomalous-tooth-of-a-cave-bear-ursus-kanivetz-vereshchagin-1973-from-pobeda-cave-in-the-southern-urals |
An isolated tooth, of morphology unusual for cave bears, is described from Late Pleistocene deposits (MIS 3) of Pobeda Cave (54.1000° N, 56.5100° E) in the Urals. Analysis of ancient DNA showed that it belongs to the Ural cave bear Ursus kanivetz, which was widespread in the Pleistocene in the Urals. The fossil find was identified as an anomalous upper canine tooth, which got its unusual appearance due to a deviation from normal development under the influence of some unknown internal or external causes.
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