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10 summaries matching “leopard” in Paleontology & Fossil Felids
Himalayan fossils of the oldest known pantherine establish ancient origin of big cats
PaperThis study described Panthera blytheae, a newly recognized fossil cat from the Tibetan Himalaya that represents the oldest known member of the pantherine lineage, the group containing all living big c…
Z. Jack Tseng, Xiaoming Wang, Graham J. Slater, Gary T. Takeuchi, Qiang Li, Juan Liu, Guangpu Xie · Proceedings of the Royal Society B · 2014
Research overview: Acinonyx pardinensis, the giant Eurasian cheetah
OverviewThis overview surveys Acinonyx pardinensis, a large extinct cheetah that ranged across Eurasia during the Pliocene and Pleistocene. Considerably bigger than the living cheetah, sometimes approaching t…
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: 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: 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 Tibetan Plateau and the origin of big cats
OverviewThis overview examines the hypothesis that the Tibetan Plateau and surrounding high-altitude Central Asia served as a cradle for the evolution of big cats and other cold-adapted carnivores. The discov…
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 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…
Research overview: the snow leopard and the base of the Panthera tree
OverviewThis overview surveys the evolutionary placement of the snow leopard within the big-cat genus Panthera and its relevance to fossil studies. Once isolated in its own genus, the snow leopard is now firm…