[2] The range of Etruscan bears was mostly limited to continental Europe, with specimens also recovered in the Great Steppe region of Eurasia.

Fossil evidence for the Etruscan bear was recovered in Palestine, Greece,[3] Croatia, and Tuscany, Italy.

[4] Some scientists have proposed that the early, small variety of U. etruscus of the middle Villafranchian era survives in the form of the modern Asian black bear.

[5] Not unlike the brown bears of Europe in size, it had a full complement of premolars, a trait carried from the genus Ursavus.

[7] Sites and specimen ages: This article related to prehistoric animals from order Carnivora is a stub.