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Object Number: Ce12697

Collection: Palaeontology

Object Name: Fossil

Common Name: Brown bear

Informal Name: bear

: animal

: mammal

Description: three thoracic vertebrae fused by osteoarthritis

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Mammalia

Order: Carnivora

Family: Ursidae

Genus: Ursus

Species: arctos

Collection Date: 1830

Lithostratigraphy: Pleistocene

Locality: Walton-in-Gordano, Somerset, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) / England, Northern Europe, Europe

Precise Location: Walton bone cave

Reference: [Book] Reynolds, 1907, pl. opposite p.185, fig. 5.