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Panthera gombaszoegensis
Extinct European jaguar species / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Panthera gombaszoegensis, also known as the European jaguar, is a Panthera species that lived from about 2.0 to 0.35 million years ago in Europe.[1] The first fossils were excavated in 1938 in Gombasek Cave, Slovakia.[2] Some records were also reported from Africa and Asia.[3] P. gombaszoegensis was a medium-large sized species that formed an important part of the European carnivore guild for a period of over a million years. Many authors have posited that it is the ancestor of the American jaguar (Panthera onca), with some authors considering it the subspecies Panthera onca gombaszoegensis,[4] though the close relationship between the two species has been questioned.[5]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Carnivora |
Suborder: | Feliformia |
Family: | Felidae |
Subfamily: | Pantherinae |
Genus: | Panthera |
Species: | †P. gombaszoegensis |
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†Panthera gombaszoegensis (Kretzoi, 1938) | |
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