Ursus dolinensis

Ursus dolinensis (the Gran Dolina bear) is an extinct mammalian carnivore species of the Ursidae family.

Railroad trenches), that is a part of the Atapuerca Mountains complex in the Burgos province, northern Spain.

Presence in these layers suggests a chronology in between 900,000 and 780,000 years ago, which falls into the Calabrian stage of the early Pleistocene.

[5] Nuria García described more of the species' specific morphology in a comparison with the Untermaßfeld bear at the 18th International Senckenberg Conference in Weimar in 2004.

She confirms the primitive brown bear-like features and highlights detailed dental traits shared by the two species, such as a "slender horizontal ramus with straight vertical profile; all teeth sides converge towards the midline".