Name: Panthera
balamoides.
Phonetic: Pan-fe-rah bah-lah-moy-deez.
Named By: Sarah R. Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang
Stinnesbeck, Eberhard Frey,Jerónimo Avilés Olguín, Carmen Rojas
Sandoval, Adriana Velázquez Morlet & Arturo H. González
- 2019.
Classification: Chordata, Mammalia, Carnivora,
Felidae, Pantherinae
Species: P. balamoides.
Diet: Carnivore.
Size: Unknown.
Known locations: Mexico - Yucatan Peninsula.
Time period: Pleistocene.
Fossil representation: Partial post cranial remains.
Panthera
balamoides is thought to be an extinct species of the Panthera
genus
that lived in Mexico during the Pleistocene.
Further reading
- Panthera balamoides and other Pleistocene felids
from the submerged
caves of Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico. - Historical Biology:
An International Journal of Paleobiology. 32 (7): 930–939.
- Sarah R. Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, Eberhard
Frey,Jerónimo Avilés Olguín, Carmen Rojas Sandoval, Adriana
Velázquez Morlet & Arturo H. González - 2019.
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