Ursinae

{{Short description|Subfamily of bears}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| name = Ursinae

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Barstovian|Recent}}

| image = Bär Züri.JPG

| image_caption = A Eurasian brown bear (Ursus arctos arctos)

| taxon = Ursinae

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

| subdivision = See text.

| authority = Fischer de Waldheim, 1817

}}

Ursinae is a subfamily of Ursidae (bears) named by Swainson (1835). It was assigned to Ursidae by Bjork (1970), Hunt (1998), and Jin et al. (2007).{{cite journal|last=Bjork |first=Philip R. |date=1970|title=The Carnivora of the Hagerman Local Fauna (Late Pliocene) of Southwestern Idaho|journal=Transactions of the American Philosophical Society|publisher= American Philosophical Society |volume=60|issue=7|pages=3–54|doi=10.2307/1006119 |jstor=1006119}}{{cite book |editor1-last=Jacobs |editor1-first= Louis |editor2-last= Janis |editor2-first= Christine M. | editor3-last= Scott | editor3-first= Kathleen L. |title=Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America: Volume 1, Terrestrial Carnivores, Ungulates, and Ungulate like Mammals |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1998 |isbn=0-521-35519-2 | first1=R. M. |last1=Hunt | chapter= Ursidae |pages= 174–195 }}{{cite journal | last1 = Jin | first1 = C | last2 = Ciochon | first2 = RL | last3 = Dong | first3 = W | last4 = Hunt Jr | first4 = RM | last5 = Liu | first5 = J | last6 = Jaeger | first6 = M | last7 = Zhu | first7 = Q | title = The first skull of the earliest giant panda. | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 104 | issue = 26 | pages = 10932–7 | year = 2007 | pmid = 17578912 | pmc = 1904166 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.0704198104 | bibcode = 2007PNAS..10410932J | doi-access = free }}