Biology:Leopardus vorohuensis
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Short description: Extinct species of felid
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Felinae |
| Genus: | Leopardus |
| Species: | †L. vorohuensis
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| †Leopardus vorohuensis (Berta, 1983)
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Leopardus vorohuensis is an extinct species of feline. Fossils of the species were found in the Vorohué Formation of Argentina and dated to the Uquian age of the early middle Pleistocene.[1][2] It is the earliest known cat of the ocelot lineage of neotropical cats.[3]
Taxonomy
Leopardus vorohuensis was originally described in 1983 by paleontologist Annalisa Berta, who placed it as a member of the genus Felis.[1] It was later assigned to the genus Leopardus by the paleontologist John Alroy after a comparative study of various feline fossil species.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Berta, A. (1983). "A New Species of Small Cat (Felidae) from the Late Pliocene – Early Pleistocene (Uquian) of Argentina". Journal of Mammalogy 64 (4): 720–725. doi:10.2307/1380541.
- ↑ Leopardus vorohuensis at Fossilworks.org
- ↑ Prevosti, F. (2006). "New material of Pleistocene cats (Carnivora, Felidae) from Southern South America, with comments on biogeography and the fossil record". Geobios 39 (5): 679–694. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2005.01.004.
- ↑ Alroy, J. (2007). Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth.
Wikidata ☰ Q16590238 entry
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