MIOCENE FAUNA / Miocene fauna

Agriarctos

Habitat: forests
Age: 10-6 mya
Size: 1 m tall, approx. 50 kg
Diet: omnivorous

It spent great amount of time on trees because of foraging or hiding from predators. Its teeth turned up from Rozsaszentmárton and Hatvan.
The fossil of this species from Spain was named Kretzoiarctos after the discoverer of Agriactos, Miklós Kretzoi.