-797x638.jpg "Panthera youngi")
1-797x638.jpg "Panthera youngi")
Panthera youngi
28702870Panthera youngi (P. youngi Pei, 1934)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Expansion and period of existence: Middle Pleistocene of Asia (Choukoutien, northeastern China and Japan) and lived about 350,000 years ago
Dimensions: length - 1.6-2,5 m, tail length - 70-90 cm, height - 90 - 115 cm, weight - 100-300 kg
Panthera youngi is an extinct species of pantherine felid which lived in northeastern China during the Middle Pleistocene. It is estimated to have lived about 350,000 years ago in the Pleistocene epoch. It was suggested that it was conspecific with Panthera atrox and P. spelaea due to their extensive similarities. Some dental similarities were also noted with the older P. fossilis, however, Panthera youngi showed more derived features. Putative fossils of this species, tiger and leopard have been discovered in Japan, but mitochondrial and nuclear genome analysis indicates that they represent P. spelaea.
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Panthera youngi (P. youngi Pei, 1934)
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Expansion and period of existence: Middle Pleistocene of Asia (Choukoutien, northeastern China and Japan) and lived about 350,000 years ago
Dimensions: length - 1.6-2,5 m, tail length - 70-90 cm, height - 90 - 115 cm, weight - 100-300 kg
Panthera youngi is an extinct species of pantherine felid which lived in northeastern China during the Middle Pleistocene. It is estimated to have lived about 350,000 years ago in the Pleistocene epoch. It was suggested that it was conspecific with Panthera atrox and P. spelaea due to their extensive similarities. Some dental similarities were also noted with the older P. fossilis, however, Panthera youngi showed more derived features. Putative fossils of this species, tiger and leopard have been discovered in Japan, but mitochondrial and nuclear genome analysis indicates that they represent P. spelaea.
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