Panthera atrox

Panthera atrox

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Feloidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Synapsida Cladus: Eupelycosauria Cladus: Sphenacodontia Cladus: Sphenacodontoidea Cladus: Therapsida Cladus: Theriodontia Cladus: Cynodontia Cladus: Eucynodontia Cladus: Probainognathia Cladus: Prozostrodontia Cladus: Mammaliaformes Classis: Mammalia Cladus: Theriimorpha Cladus: Theriiformes Cladus: Trechnotheria Cladus: Zatheria Subclassis: Theria Cladus: Eutheria Infraclassis: Placentalia Magnordo: Boreoeutheria Superordo: Laurasiatheria Cladus: Scrotifera Grandordo: Ferungulata Mirordo: Ferae Cladus: Pancarnivora Cladus: Carnivoramorpha Cladus: Carnivoraformes Ordo: Carnivora Subordo: Feliformia Infraordo: Aeluroidea Superfamilia: Feloidea

Familia: Felidae
Subfamilia: Pantherinae
Genus: Panthera
Species: †Panthera atrox

Name

Panthera atrox (Leidy, 1853): 321 ["Felis atrox"]

Type locality: "neighbourhood of Natchez, Mississippi"; U.S.A.

Synonymy

• Felis atrox Leidy, 1853: 321 [Protonym]
• Felis imperialis Leidy, 1873: 260
• Felis atrox bebbi Merriam, 1909: 301
• Panthera leo atrox
• Panthera atrox

References

Primary references

• Leidy, J. 1853. Description of an extinct species of American Lion: Felis atrox. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society n.s. 10: 319–321. DOI: 10.2307/1005282 JSTOR BHL Reference page. 
• Merriam, J.C. 1909. The skull and dentition of an extinct cat closed allied to Felis atrox Leidy. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 5(20): 291–304. HathiTrust Reference page. 

Additional references

• Merriam, J.C. & Stock, C. 1932. The Felidae of Rancho La Brea. Carnegie Institution of Washington. HathiTrust Reference page.  pp. 164–199.
• Kurtén, B. 1985. The Pleistocene lion of Beringia. Annales Zoologici Fennici 22: 117–121. PDF Reference page. 
• Barnett, R., Mendoza, M.L.Z., Soares, André Elias Rodrigues, Ho, S.Y.W., Zazula, G., Yamaguchi, N., Shapiro, B., Kirillova, I.V., Larson, G. & Gilbert, M.T.P. 2016. Mitogenomics of the Extinct Cave Lion, Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss, 1810), Resolve its Position within the Panthera Cats. Open Quaternary 2(4): 1–11. DOI: 10.5334/oq.24 ResearchGate Reference page. 

Vernacular names

čeština: Lev americký
English: American Lion
español: León americano
hrvatski: Američki lav
magyar: Amerikai oroszlán
Nederlands: Holenleeuw
português: Leão americano
Türkçe: Amerika aslanı

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