| Ursavini Temporal range: Oligocene–Miocene |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Caniformia |
| Superfamily: | Arctoidea |
| Family: | Ursidae |
| Subfamily: | Ursinae |
| Tribe: | †Ursavini |
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Ursavini is an extinct tribe of mammals of the family Ursidae (bears) endemic to North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia during Miocene through Pliocene, living from ~23—2.5 Ma, existing for approximately 20.5 million years.
Ursavini was assigned to Ursinae by Hunt (1998) and Jin et al. (2007) and includes the genera Agriotherium, Indarctos and Ursavus.[1][2]