Panthera leo fossilis

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Maeve Foster

Paleoclimatologist

Maeve Foster explores the Earth's climatic past to understand the forces that shaped life on our planet. Her research into ancient climate events provides valuable context for current environmental challenges.

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Name

Panthera leo fossilis

Phonetic

Named By

Classification

Chordata,‭ ‬Mammalia,‭ ‬Carnivora,‭ ‬Felidae.

Diet

Carnivore.

Species

Size

2.4‭ ‬meters long.

Known locations

Eurasia.

Time Period

Pleistocene.

Fossil representation

Several specimens.

In Depth

Further Reading

– Two forms of cave lion: Middle Pleistocene Panthera spelaea fossilis Reichenau, 1906 and Upper Pleistocene Panthera spelaea spelaea Goldfuss, 1810 from the B�snik Cave, Poland – Adrian Marciszak & Krzysztof Stefaniak – 2010. – The hunted hunter: the capture of a lion (Panthera leo fossilis) at the Gran Dolina site, Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain – Journal of Archaeological Science Volume 37, Issue 8 – Ruth Blasco, Jordi Rosella, Juan Luis ArsuagaJos� M. Berm�dez de Castrod, Eudald Carbonell – 2010. – The first Asian record of Panthera (Leo) fossilis (von Reichenau, 1906) (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) in the Early Pleistocene of Western Siberia, Russia. – Marina V. Sotnikova & Irina V. Foronova – 2013. – First Asian record of Panthera (Leo) fossilis (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) in the Early Pleistocene of Western Siberia, Russia. – Integrative Zoology. 9 (4): 517–530. – M. V. Sotnikova & I. V. Foronova – 2014. – Panthera fossilis (Reichenau, 1906) (Felidae, Carnivora) from Za H�jovnou Cave (Moravia, The Czech Republic): A Fossil Record from 1987-2007. – Acta Musei Nationalis Pragae, Series B, Historia Naturalis. 70 (1–2): 59–70. – M. Sabol – 2014. – Early Pleistocene origin and extensive intra-species diversity of the extinct cave lion. – Scientific Reports. 10: 12621. – David W. G. Stanton, Federica Alberti, Valery Plotnikov, Semyon Androsov, Semyon Grigoriev, Sergey Fedorov, Pavel Kosintsev, Doris Nagel, Sergey Vartanyan, Ian Barnes, Ross Barnett, Erik Ersmark, Doris D�ppes, Mietje Germonpr�, Michael Hofreiter, Wilfried Rosendahl, Pontus Skoglund & Love Dal�n – 2020. – The evolutionary history of extinct and living lions. – PNAS. 117 (20): 10927–10934. – Marc de Manuel, Ross Barnett, Marcela Sandoval-Velasco, Nobuyuki Yamaguchi, Filipe Garrett Vieira, M. Lisandra Zepeda Mendoza, Shiping Liu, Michael D. Martin, Mikkel-Holger S. Sinding, Sarah S. T. Mak, Christian Car�e, Shanlin Liu, Chunxue Guo, Jiao Zheng, Grant Zazula, Gennady Baryshnikov, Eduardo Eizirik, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Warren E. Johnson, Agostinho Antunes, Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten, Shyam Gopalakrishnan, Greger Larson, Huanming Yang, Stephen J. O’Brien, Anders J. Hansen, Guojie Zhang, Tomas Marques-Bonet & M. Thomas P. Gilbert – 2020.

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