Panthera pardus spelaea (Bächler, 1936)
Cave leopard, Ice Age leopard
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Panthera pardus vraonensis Nagel, 1999; Felis antiqua Cuvier, 1825?
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: Late Pleistocene (c. 32,000-26,000 BP)
Distribution
Europe
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Diedrich, Cajus G. (2013). Late Pleistocene leopards across Europe – northernmost European German population, highest elevated records in the Swiss Alps, complete skeletons in the Bosnia Herzegowina Dinarids and comparison to the Ice Age cave art. Quaternary Science Reviews 76: 167-193. [Abstract]
Ghezzo, Elena and Rook, L. (2015). The remarkable Panthera pardus (Felidae, Mammalia) record from Equi (Massa, Italy): taphonomy, morphology, and paleoecology. Quat. Sci. Rev. 110: 131-151.
Nagel, Doris et al. (2018). Subtropical steppe inhabitants in the Late Pleistocene cave faunas of eastern Middle Europe. Slovenský Kras Acta Carsologica Slovaca 56(1): 99-110.
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