Leopardus vorohuensis
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]
| Leopardus vorohuensis | |
|---|---|
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 | |
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Felis vorohuensis (Berta, 1983) | |
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
- Leopardus vorohuensis at Fossilworks.org
- 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.
- Alroy, J. (2007). Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth.
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