Tuscany Lion

Tuscany Lion

Taxobox
name = Tuscany lion
status = Fossil
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Carnivora
familia = Felidae
genus = "Panthera"
species = "P. toscana"
binomial = "Panthera toscana"
binomial_authority = (Schaub, 1949)

The Tuscany lion or Tuscany jaguar was a prehistoric large feline of the Villafranchian of Italy. Although originally named as a separate species, "Panthera toscana" is now often recognized as an early form of "Panthera gombaszoegensis", the European jaguar.

Literature

* A. Turner: "The big cats and their fossil relatives". Columbia University Press, 1997.ISBN 0-231-10229-1


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