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11 summaries matching “jaguar” in Paleontology & Fossil Felids
Research overview: Dinofelis, the false sabertooth of the African Pliocene
OverviewThis overview examines Dinofelis, a leopard-to-jaguar-sized cat of the Pliocene and early Pleistocene placed among the Metailurini, whose moderately enlarged, flattened canines mark it as an intermedi…
Research overview: Panthera gombaszoegensis, the European jaguar
OverviewThis overview surveys Panthera gombaszoegensis, an extinct big cat of the Pleistocene of Europe and western Asia often nicknamed the European jaguar because of similarities to the living jaguar. Known…
Research overview: cats and the Great American Biotic Interchange
OverviewThis overview surveys how the Great American Biotic Interchange, triggered by the rise of the Panamanian land bridge, allowed cats to spread between North and South America. Following this connection,…
Research overview: conflicting signals in big-cat phylogeny
OverviewThis overview examines why reconstructing the relationships among the living big cats has proven difficult, with different genes and analyses sometimes yielding conflicting trees. The lion, leopard, a…
Research overview: convergence and the puma affinity of Miracinonyx
OverviewThis overview examines the evolutionary relationships of Miracinonyx and the now well-supported conclusion that its cheetah-like form arose through convergence rather than common ancestry with the tru…
Research overview: molecular divergence dating of the Panthera radiation
OverviewThis overview examines how molecular clocks, calibrated with fossils, have been used to estimate when the living big cats diverged from one another. Genetic studies place the origin of the Panthera li…
Research overview: the contested identity of the American lion, Panthera atrox
OverviewThis overview examines the long-running debate over what the American lion, Panthera atrox, actually was. Since its description from Pleistocene North America, researchers have variously regarded it a…
Research overview: the fossil history and dispersal of the jaguar
OverviewThis overview surveys the fossil record of the jaguar lineage and its spread into the Americas. The jaguar, Panthera onca, traces its origins to Old World pantherines whose descendants crossed into No…
Research overview: the fossil record of the leopard
OverviewThis overview surveys the fossil history of the leopard, Panthera pardus, one of the most widely distributed living big cats. Fossils document the leopard's presence across Africa and Eurasia through…
Research overview: the fossil record of the puma lineage in the Americas
OverviewThis overview surveys the fossil history of the puma lineage, the New World group that includes the living puma and jaguarundi and is closely tied to the extinct American cheetah-like cat Miracinonyx.…
Research overview: the origin of the Panthera lineage of big cats
OverviewThis overview surveys evidence on where and when the Panthera lineage, the genus that includes lions, tigers, leopards, jaguars, and snow leopards, first arose. Molecular phylogenies place the diverge…