Puma_pumoides

<i>Puma pumoides</i>

Puma pumoides

Extinct species of felid

Puma pumoides is an extinct prehistoric cat that was described in 1956 by Alfredo Castellanos using the scientific name Felis pumoides. Castellanos 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]

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Description

Fossil remains consisted of a maxilla, the orbital section of the frontal bone, a part of a mandible, 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

  1. [1]
    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)
  2. [2]
    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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