Named By: | Wagner in 1837 |
Time Period: | Late Miocene-Gelasian |
Location: | Across Africa, Eurasia and North America |
Size: | Approximately 2.7 meters long and up to around 650 kilograms |
Diet: | Probably an Omnivore |
Fossil(s): | Multiple individuals |
Classification: | | Chordata | Mammalia | Carnivora | Arctoidea | Ursidae | Ursinae | |
Also known as: | | Agriotherium coffeyi | Hyaenarctos | |
Agriotherium is an extinct genus of bears whose fossils are found Miocene through Pleistocene-aged strata of North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, living from ~13.6-2.5 Ma, existing for approximately 11.1 million years. Materials of the late surviving A. africanum from Africa has suggested that A. africanum died out soon during the early Gelasian.