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Panthera spelaea vereshchagini
Panthera spelaea vereshchagini
Panthera spelaea vereshchagini
Panthera spelaea vereshchagini
Panthera spelaea vereshchagini
Panthera spelaea vereshchagini
Panthera spelaea vereshchagini

Panthera spelaea vereshchagini

East Siberian cave lion or Beringian cave lion (Panthera spelaea vereshchagini Baryshnikov & Boeskorov, 2001)

 

Order: Carnivora

Family: Felidae

Range and period of existence: Late Pleistocene of North-East Asia and North America (320-12 thousand years ago)

Dimensions: length - 1.8m, tail length - 90 cm, height - 115 cm, weight - 250 kg.

 


Based on the study of cave lions in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia, this form was assigned the subspecies status Panthera spelaea vereshchagini. Panthera spelaea vereshchagini, also known as the East Siberian and Beringian cave lion, lived in the late Pleistocene in Yakutia (Russia), Alaska (USA) and the Yukon (Canada). The analysis of skulls and jaws of this lion shows that Beringian form differs from other Phantera spelea by the smaller size and proportions of the skull (approximately 20% smaller). Recent genetic studies also confirm some of their differences from the Eurasian and North American lions. The identification of modern and extinct lions is complicated by the presence of common features, although characteristics such as body size or differences in the shape of skull and dental features were used for proposed taxonomic distinction between today’s lions (Panthera leo) and Pleistocene lions (Panthera spelaea). The status of these groups as separate species or subspecies, and their relationship to each other remain controversial, but most analyses suggest that these groups separated about 750,000 years ago into the well-isolated clusters of modern, American and cave lions. Besides, the late-quaternary history of P. leo is very different from the evolution of P. spelaea. Currently, the Late Pleistocene lion of Beringia is presented as a homogeneous population that ranged from eastern Siberia to Alaska and western Canada, and possibly was a utmost form of Panthera spelaea. In early studies, the Beringian large cat is mentioned as P. atrox, but the study of metric characteristics of the Beringian lion proved that it was more closely related to Eurasian populations. Beringia was the subcontinent that connected North America and Eurasia during the Pleistocene glaciations, covering eastern Siberia and the Kamchatka Peninsula, an isolated area of ​Alaska, the Yukon and the Northwestern Territories, as well as the space flooded nowadays by Bering-Chukotski platform. The skeletal remains of the Beringian cave lion were found together with the fossils of typical Ice Age fauna - mammoths, bison, horses, donkeys, northern and red deer, saiga antelopes, bears and wolves. The relatively large size of the Beringia cave lion suggests that it may have hunted large prey, including horses, reindeer, musk oxen, and the now-extinct steppe bison.

 

Igor Kazanov

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East Siberian cave lion or Beringian cave lion (Panthera spelaea vereshchagini Baryshnikov & Boeskorov, 2001)

 

Order: Carnivora

Family: Felidae

Range and period of existence: Late Pleistocene of North-East Asia and North America (320-12 thousand years ago)

Dimensions: length - 1.8m, tail length - 90 cm, height - 115 cm, weight - 250 kg.

 


Based on the study of cave lions in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia, this form was assigned the subspecies status Panthera spelaea vereshchagini. Panthera spelaea vereshchagini, also known as the East Siberian and Beringian cave lion, lived in the late Pleistocene in Yakutia (Russia), Alaska (USA) and the Yukon (Canada). The analysis of skulls and jaws of this lion shows that Beringian form differs from other Phantera spelea by the smaller size and proportions of the skull (approximately 20% smaller). Recent genetic studies also confirm some of their differences from the Eurasian and North American lions. The identification of modern and extinct lions is complicated by the presence of common features, although characteristics such as body size or differences in the shape of skull and dental features were used for proposed taxonomic distinction between today’s lions (Panthera leo) and Pleistocene lions (Panthera spelaea). The status of these groups as separate species or subspecies, and their relationship to each other remain controversial, but most analyses suggest that these groups separated about 750,000 years ago into the well-isolated clusters of modern, American and cave lions. Besides, the late-quaternary history of P. leo is very different from the evolution of P. spelaea. Currently, the Late Pleistocene lion of Beringia is presented as a homogeneous population that ranged from eastern Siberia to Alaska and western Canada, and possibly was a utmost form of Panthera spelaea. In early studies, the Beringian large cat is mentioned as P. atrox, but the study of metric characteristics of the Beringian lion proved that it was more closely related to Eurasian populations. Beringia was the subcontinent that connected North America and Eurasia during the Pleistocene glaciations, covering eastern Siberia and the Kamchatka Peninsula, an isolated area of ​Alaska, the Yukon and the Northwestern Territories, as well as the space flooded nowadays by Bering-Chukotski platform. The skeletal remains of the Beringian cave lion were found together with the fossils of typical Ice Age fauna - mammoths, bison, horses, donkeys, northern and red deer, saiga antelopes, bears and wolves. The relatively large size of the Beringia cave lion suggests that it may have hunted large prey, including horses, reindeer, musk oxen, and the now-extinct steppe bison.

 

Igor Kazanov

Відгуки (39):
Дмитрий
08.08.2020
И вот, наступило 28 июля 2020. Господа, вы посрамлены - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-69474-1 ("..The genetic data therefore supports previous hypotheses, based on morphology and ecology, that the Beringian cave lion was a separate subspecies (Panthera spelaea vereshchagini)...."
rom
13.12.2018
Все верно. На счет восточносибирских останков... Есть несколько не укладывающиеся в метрику "верещагинского льва" деталей. Например, размеры костей этих львов просто огромны, как у самых крупных мосбахцев и американцев. При этом, восточносибирские львы ранее считались самыми мелкими из спелоидной группы.
митрич
10.12.2018
Восточносибирские останки (и последнюю мумию львенка из Якутии!) ПРОСТО считайте локальной местной популяцией трансевразийского плейстоценового вида, а"вересчагинское фуфло" - на помойку! НЕТ НИКАКИХ ОСНОВАНИЙ ДЕКЛАРИРОВАТЬ фоссилизированные кости как отдельный "пАдвид" - ЖИВОЙ ОРИГИНАЛ КТО ПРЕДЪЯВИТЬ МОЖЕТ?..
митрич
10.12.2018
Короче, самое реальное, что может быть-это не мои сентенции о проходимцах "вересчагинской конторы", а общепризнанная научная данность - линия спелеоидных львов-пантерин (не совсем львов в современном понимании) РЕАЛЬНО состоит из единичных ХРОНО-ПОДВИДОВ (даже не видов!), незначительно различных по телосложению, окрасу, возможно-экологическому поведению:1) Panthera shawi из нижнего плейстоцена 2) Мосбахский лев (Panthera fossilis)из среднего плейстоцена и 3)Собственно, пещерный лев, обзываемый ранее "тигрольвом" (Panthera spelaea), из "ледникового периода" Евразии 4)позднеплейстоценовая производная пещерного льва или "ужасный лев" Северной Америки (Panthera atrox)из той же эпохи - И ВСЕ!
Митрич
09.12.2018
А этому подлецу Вересчагину или его пиар-кодле - ГОНЬБА или полнейший ИГНОР! Никаких "вересчагинских львов" не признавать, а если признаете, то равноправно "рожайте" новых "криптидов" - львов "андалузских","бургундских", "ломбарджийских","шарецких", "баварских", "мазовецких", "азовских","хоперских","пермских", "суздальских", "казанских", "майкопских", "тобольских", "уш-конырских", "байкальских", "васюганских", "аньхойских", "чжанькоуских" и "прочая-прочая-прочая"... Ну шо, утомил?.. Вот-вот - и эта пи...допляска с этими "крипто-пАдвидами" пещерных львов так же утомила уже людей адекватных!А кто-то на этой виртуальной "лабуде" реальные бабки делает!