Agriarctos
{{Short description|Extinct genus of bears}}
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| image = Teeth of Agriarctos nikolovi.png
| image_caption = Teeth of?Ag. nikolovi: A, NMNHS FM3546-b, upper canine in labial and lingual views; B, NMNHS FM3546-a, P4 in buccal, occlusal, and lingual views.
| fossil_range = Middle to Late Miocene
| taxon = Agriarctos
| authority = Kretzoi, 1942
| type_species = †A. gaali
| type_species_authority = Kretzoi, 1942
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
- †A. depereti (Schlosser, 1902)
- †A. gaali Kretzoi, 1942
- †A. nikolovi Jiangzuo & Spassov, 2022
- †A. vighi Kretzoi, 1942
}}
Agriarctos is an extinct genus of panda from the Middle to Late Miocene, approximately 8-18 million years ago. This genus and its type species A. gaali was established based on fossils from Hatvan, Hungary, and A. vighi based on fossils from Rózsaszentmárton. Miklós Kretzoi proposed Agriarctos was closely related with Agriotherium. Previously published, Ursavus depereti was assigned to Agriarctos by Kretzoi, but now proved to be polyphyletic.{{cite journal|last1=Kretzoi|first1=M.|title=Zwei neue Agriotheriiden aus dem ungarischen Pannon|journal=Földtani Közlöny|date=1942|volume=72|pages=350–353|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50724142}}{{Cite journal |last1=Jiangzuo |first1=Qigao |last2=Spassov |first2=Nikolai |date=2022-07-31 |title=A late Turolian giant panda from Bulgaria and the early evolution and dispersal of the panda lineage |url=https://zenodo.org/records/6953111/files/source.pdf |journal=Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology |volume=42 |issue=1 |pages=e2054718 |doi=10.1080/02724634.2021.2054718 |bibcode=2022JVPal..42E4718J |s2cid=251241607 |issn=0272-4634}}
Agriarctos beatrix was published in 2011 as a new species of Agriarctos.{{cite journal|last1=Abella|first1=J.|first2=P.|last2=Montoya|first3=J.|last3=Morales|title=A New Species of Agriarctos (Ailuropodinae, Ursidae, Carnivora) in the Locality of Nombrevilla 2 (Zaragoza, Spain)|journal=Estudios Geológicos|volume=67|issue=2|year=2011|pages=187–191|doi=10.3989/egeol.40714.182|doi-access=free}} It was later erected as a new genus Kretzoiarctos, which was named after Kretzoi.{{cite journal|last1=Abella|first1=Juan|first2=David M.|last2=Alba|first3=Josep M.|last3=Robles|first4=Alberto|last4=Valenciano|first5=Cheyenne|last5=Rotgers|first6=Raül|last6=Carmona|first7=Jorge|last7=Morales|first8=Plinio|last8=Montoya|title=Kretzoiarctos Gen. Nov., the Oldest Member of the Giant Panda Clade|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=7|issue=11|year=2012|pages=1–5|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0048985|pmid=23155439|pmc=3498366|bibcode=2012PLoSO...748985A|doi-access=free}}