Arctodus (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arctodus (which translates as Bear Tooth) - known as the short-faced bear or bulldog bear - is an extinct genus of bear endemic to North America during the Pleistocene 3.0 Ma.-11,000 years ago, existing for approximately 2.989 million years. It was the most common of early North American bears, being most abundant in California. The short-faced bears belonged to a group of bears known as the tremarctine bears or running bears, which are endemic to North America and Europe.