Panthera dhokpathanensis

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Panthera dhokpathanensis
Temporal range: Late Pliocene (Piacenzian) ~2.7  Ma
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Felidae
Subfamily: Pantherinae
Genus: Panthera
Species:
P. dhokpathanensis
Binomial name
Panthera dhokpathanensis
Bakr, 1986

Panthera dhokpathanensis is an extinct, prehistoric species of cat in the genus Panthera . It was described in 1986 based on fossils found in the Siwaliks in Pakistan dated to the Piacenzian age of the Late Pliocene epoch. [1]

References

  1. Bakr, Abu (1986). "105: On a collection of Siwalik Carnivora". Proceedings of Fourth Pakistan Congress of Zoology held under the auspices of the Zoological Society of Pakistan, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, December 20-22, 1983. Biological Society of Pakistan. pp. 1–64. OCLC   62447645.