Observations on the Ursus gr. spelaeus remains from the Pocala cave (Trieste, Friuli Venezia Giulia, N. Italy).

Using the fossils of skulls, P4/4, M1 stored in the Geological and Paleontological Museum of the University of Padua (Veneto region), the most modern considerations on cave bear remains from the Pocala cave (Friuli Venezia Giulia region), are advanced. These bears belong to the U. spelaeus Rosenmüller, 1794 species and both the morphological-morphometrical and the morphodynamic characters, seem to be intermediate between those typical of the ancestral forms observed in the “deningeri” bears, and the more modern forms of “ingressus”, as in the other Italian populations recently examined (Covoli di Velo, San Donà di Lamon – Veneto region – and Buco del Frate – Lombardy).