''Tremarctos'' is a genus of the Ursidae, bear subfamily Tremarctinae, endemic to Americas from the Pliocene to Holocene, recent. The northern species, the Tremarctos floridanus, Florida short-faced bear, became extinct 11,000 years ago.
[B. Kurten & E. Anderson (1980): Pleistocene mammals of North America, pp 1-442. Columbia University Press] The sole living ''Tremarctos'' species is the South American spectacled bear.
Species
* extinction, †''Tremarctos floridanus'' - Florida short-faced bear
* ''Tremarctos ornatus'' - spectacled bear
References
Bears
Mammal genera
Mammal genera with one living species
Taxa named by Paul Gervais
Extant Pliocene first appearances
Fossil taxa described in 1855
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