Kretzoiarctos is an extinct bear genus from the European Miocene. It consists of Kretzoiarctos beatrix, an ancestor of the extant giant panda.
Kretzoiarctos is an extinct bear genus from the European Miocene. It consists of Kretzoiarctos beatrix, an ancestor of the extant giant panda.
==Description== Kretzoiarctos beatrix was originally described in 2011 as Agriarctos beatrix, before being reclassified into a new genus. The scientific name commemorates the Hungarian geologist and paleontologist Miklós Kretzoi.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).