• DOI:10.1111/j.1751-8369.2008.00087.x
Corpus ID: 56292690

Late Pleistocene fossil find in Svalbard: the oldest remains of a polar bear (Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1744) ever discovered

@article{Inglfsson2009LatePF,
  title={Late Pleistocene fossil find in Svalbard: the oldest remains of a polar bear (Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1744) ever discovered},
  author={{\'O}. Ing{\'o}lfsson and {\O}. Wiig},
  journal={Polar Research},
  year={2009},
  volume={28},
  pages={455 - 462}
}

Ó. Ingólfsson, Ø. Wiig

Published 2009

Geology

Polar Research

During recent fieldwork in Svalbard, a well preserved subfossil left mandible of a polar bear (Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774) was discovered. A 14C age determination shows that it is older than 45 Ky (kilo-years), and an age determination with infrared-stimulated luminescence—together with the stratigraphic position of the bone—suggests that it is of Eemian–Early Weichselian age: 130–110 Ky old. This makes the find the oldest remains of a polar bear ever discovered. Morphological analyses of the… CONTINUE READING

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