Ursidae (Carnivora, Mammalia) from Tunel Wielki Cave (southern Poland)

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Marciszak, Adrian, Kot, Małgorzata, Zarzecka-Szubińska, Katarzyna, Lipecki, Grzegorz (2025): Ursidae (Carnivora, Mammalia) from Tunel Wielki Cave (southern Poland). Comptes Rendus Palevol 24 (14): 241-302, DOI: 10.5852/cr-palevol2025v24a14, URL: doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2025v24a14 ABSTRACT The presence of two ursids, Ursus deningeri hercynicus Rode, 1935 and Ursus arctos taubachensis Rode, 1935, was documented from the Tunel Wielki Cave.

Of them, Ursus deningeri hercynicus is represented by almost all skeletal elements, with the predominance of isolated teeth, metapodials and phalanges. The analysis performed shows that the remains of this bear subspecies from Tunel Wielki have intermediate morphological features and metric values between individuals recorded in the materials from the early-mid (MIS 19-13) and late Middle Pleistocene (MIS 12-9) localities.