Puma pumoides
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Puma pumoides Temporal range: Pliocene
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Maxilla of Puma pumoides | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | Felidae |
Subfamily: | Felinae |
Genus: | Puma |
Species: | †P. pumoides[1]
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Binomial name | |
†Puma pumoides[1] Castellanos, 1956
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Puma pumoides is an extinct prehistoric cat that was described in 1956 by Alfredo Castellanos using the scientific name Felis pumoides. Castellanos excavated its fossil remains in the Reartes Valley located in the province of Córdoba, Argentina, in a stratum called 'Brocherense bed', which probably dates to the Pliocene.[2] Fossil remains comprised a maxilla, the orbital section of the frontal bone, a part of a mandible, a petrosal, a femur, a lumbar vertebrae, and a few parts of each a humerus, tibia, ulna, and radius. Because of the similarity of these holotype parts with jaguarundi, it was preliminarily subordinated to the genus Puma.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Chimento, N. R., Derguy, M. R. and Hemmer, H. (2014). "Puma (Herpailurus) pumoides (Castellanos, 1958) nov. comb. Comentarios sistemáticos y registro fósil". Serie Correlación Geológica. 30 (2): 92−134.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
- ^ Castellanos, A. (1956). "Nota preliminar sobre nuevos restos de mamíferos fósiles en el Brocherense del Valle de Los Reartes (provincia de Córdoba, Argentina)" [Preliminary note on new remains of fossil mammals in the Brocherense of the Reartes Valley (Córdoba Province, Argentina)]. In Rojas, A. G. (ed.). XX Congreso Geológico Internacional (1956). México. pp. 217−233.
Categories:
- Prehistoric felines
- Puma (genus)
- Prehistoric mammals of South America
- Mammals described in 1956
- Pliocene carnivorans
- Prehistoric carnivoran stubs