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Hemmer, H.; Kahlke, R.-D.
Presence of the European Jaguar (_Panthera onca gombaszoegensis_) in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene in the Netherlands
2005 Deinsea (11): 47-57
A right mandibular fragment of a Pleistocene large cat found on the Maasvlakte near Rotterdam in 1997 is identified as a presumably female jaguar, Panthera onca gombaszoegensis, on the base of morphological and metrical comparison with the felid genera potentially to be expected. The mandibular shape and the length of the diastema are consistent with those features of the early Middle Pleistocene European jaguar type, associating the specimen with the late Lower Pleistocene or early Middle Pleistocene fauna Maasvlakte I. It fits into the known distribution of P. onca gombaszoegensis of the Lower Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene boundary from the Iberian Peninsula to Middle Asia. The accompanying Maasvlakte fauna underlines the generally aquatic affinity also in the jaguars of the Old World Pleistocene.
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