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Lynx issiodorensis Croizet & Jobert, 1828

Issoire lynx

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: Late Pleistocene

 

Distribution

Europe & China

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Croizet, J. B. and Jobert, A. C. G. (1828). Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles  du departement du Puy-de-Dome. 224 pp. 57 pls. Paris.

 

Other references:

Crégut-Bonnoure, Evelyne and Dimitrijević, Vesna. (2022). New insights on Carnivora (Mammalia) from Trlica (Pljevlja, Montenegro). Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 41(2): 281-311.

Cuccu, Andrea et al. (2022). A new lynx mandible from the Early Pleistocene of Spain (La Puebla de Valverde, Teruel) and a taxonomical multivariate approach of medium-sized felids. Historical Biology. https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2021.2024181

Kurten, Bjorn. (1978). The lynx from Etouaires, Lynx issiodorensis (Croizet & Jobert), late Pliocene. Ann. Zool. Fennici 15: 314-322.

Werderlin L. (1981). The evolution of lynxes. Ann. Zool. Fennici 18:37-71.

 

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