Tuscany Lion

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Tuscany lion
Conservation status
Prehistoric
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Panthera
Species: P. toscana
Binomial name
Panthera toscana
(Schaub, 1949)

The Tuscany lion or Tuscany jaguar was a prehistoric feline of the Villafranchian of Italy. Although primal given its own classification, Panthera toscana is often recognized as an early form and a synonym of Panthera gombaszoegensis today.

[edit] Literature

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


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