Panthera balamoides Stinnesbeck et al., 2020
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Considered to be a misidentified ursid (i.e. bear) by (Blaine et al., 2019; Ruiz-Ramoni et al., 2019)
Conservation Status
Invalid
Last record: Late Pleistocene
Distribution
Mexico
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Stinnesbeck, Sarah R.; Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang; Frey, Eberhard; Avilés Olguín, Jerónimo; Rojas Sandoval, Carmen; Velázquez Morlet, Adriana; González, Arturo H. (2019). Panthera balamoides and other Pleistocene felids from the submerged caves of Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology 32(7): 930-939. doi:10.1080/08912963.2018.1556649 [Abstract]
Other references:
Blaine W. Schubert; James C. Chatters; Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales; Joshua X. Samuels; Leopoldo H. Soibelzon; Francisco J. Prevosti; Christopher Widga; Alberto Nava; Dominique Rissolo; Pilar Luna Erreguerena (2019). Yucatán carnivorans shed light on the Great American Biotic Interchange. Biology Letters 15(5): 20190148. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2019.0148
Damien Ruiz-Ramoni; Marisol Montellano-Ballesteros; Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales; Arturo Caso; Sasha Carvajal-Villarreal (2019). The large jaguar that lived in the past of Mexico: a forgotten fossil. Therya 11(1): 33-40. doi:10.12933/therya-20-821
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