Tremarctinae
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The Tremarctinae or short-faced bears is a subfamily of Ursidae that contains one living representative, the spectacled bear of South America, and several extinct species from four genera: the Florida
Skeleton of Arctotherium angustidens at the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia, Argentina.
Skeletal reconstruction of Arctodus simus.
Arctotherium
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Arctotherium is an extinct genus of short-faced bears endemic to Central and South America from the Late Pliocene to the end of the Late Pleistocene. Arctotherium migrated from North America to South
Tremarctinae
…Tremarctos floridanus), the North American giant short-faced bears Arctodus (A. pristinus and A. simus), the South American giant short-faced bear Arctotherium (including A. angustidens, A. vetustum, A. bonariense, A. wingei, and A. tarijense) as well as Plionarctos (P. edensis and P. harroldorum), which is…
The last short-faced bear, and the ecological successor of A. wingei, is the spectacled bear.
Life restoration of Arctotherium bonariense.
Tropical savanna forests and grasslands, such as the modern Cerrado, would have supplanted the Amazon as the dominant biome of Pleistocene South America, and stretched into Central America. This was A. wingei's preferred habitat.