Leopardus vorohuensis

Leopardus vorohuensis
Temporal range: Early-Mid Pleistocene (Uquian)
~3.0–1.2 Ma
↓
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Mammalia
Order:Carnivora
Suborder:Feliformia
Family:Felidae
Subfamily:Felinae
Genus:Leopardus
Species: L. vorohuensis
Binomial name
Leopardus vorohuensis
(Berta, 1983) Alroy 2007
Synonyms

Felis vorohuensis (Berta, 1983)

Leopardus vorohuensis is an extinct species of feline. Fossils of the species were found in the Uquian age of the early middle Pleistocene Vorohué Formation of Argentina.[1] It was a small arboreal carnivore and the earliest known cat of the genus Leopardus.[2]

Taxonomy

Leopardus vorohuensis was originally described in 1983 by paleontologist Annalisa Berta, who placed it as a member of the genus Felis.[2] It was later assigned to the genus Leopardus by American biologist and paleontologist John Alroy after a comparative study of various feline fossil species.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Leopardus vorohuensis at Fossilworks.org
  2. 1 2 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.
  3. ↑ Alroy, J. (2007). Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth.


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