Puma pumoides
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| Puma pumoides Temporal range: Late Pliocene
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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: | Puma |
| Species: | †P. pumoides
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| Binomial name | |
| †Puma pumoides (Castellanos, 1956)
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Puma pumoides is an
excavated its fossil remains in the Reartes Valley located in the province of Córdoba, Argentina in a stratum called 'Brocherense bed', which probably dates to the Pliocene.[1]
Description
Fossil remains consisted of a
petrosal, a femur, a lumbar vertebrae, and a few parts of each a humerus, tibia, ulna, and radius. Because of the similarity of these holotype parts with the living jaguarundi, it was preliminarily subordinated to the genus Puma.[2]
References
- ^ Castellanos, A. (1956). "Nota preliminar sobre nuevos restos de mamíferos fósiles en el Brocherense del Valle de Los Reartes (provincia de Córdoba, Argentina)" [Preliminary note on new remains of fossil mammals in the Brocherense of the Reartes Valley (Córdoba Province, Argentina)]. In Rojas, A. G. (ed.). XX Congreso Geológico Internacional (1956). México. pp. 217−233.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Chimento, N. R.; Derguy, M. R.; Hemmer, H. (2014). "Puma (Herpailurus) pumoides (Castellanos, 1958) nov. comb. Comentarios sistemáticos y registro fósil". Serie Correlación Geológica. 30 (2): 92−134.
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