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| Hemmer, H.; Heindtke, U.H.J. | |
| Die Pfalz - eine frhe Station auf dem langen Weg des Jaguars, _Panthera onca_ (Linnaeus, 1758), nach Sdamerika | |
| 2013 Jahresberichte und Mitteilungen des Oberrheinischen Geologischen Vereins (95): 373-390 | |
Mandibular fragments of a small jaguar are described from fissure fillings of the limestone quarry of Neuleiningen (Palatinate, Germany). Morphological analysis classifies this cat with the late chrono-subspecies _Panthera onca gombaszoegensis _(Kretzoi, 1938). The Neuleiningen fissures cover about a million years of the Early Pleistocene, as deduced by four different small mammal faunistic complexes. The jaguar remains probably represent the latest, Epivillafranchian, time horizon. Their position in the evolution of the jaguar, from its origin in Africa through Eurasia to North and finally South America, is discussed. |
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