Panthera onca augusta

Panthera onca augusta
Temporal range: Late Pleistocene
↓
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Felidae
Subfamily: Pantherinae
Genus: Panthera
Species:
P. onca
Subspecies:
†P. o. augusta
Trinomial name
†Panthera onca augusta
(Leidy, 1872)
Synonyms
  • Felis augustus Leidy, 1872
  • Felis veronis Hay, 1919
  • Panthera augustus (Leidy, 1872)
Jaw of P. o. augusta at the Tellus Science Museum from Craighead Caverns.

Panthera onca augusta is an extinct subspecies of the jaguar that was endemic to North America during the Last Glacial Maximum of the Pleistocene epoch.[1]

  1. ^ Moreno, A. K. M.; Lima-Ribeiro, M. S. (2015-12-31). "Ecological niche models, fossil record and the multi-temporal calibration for Panthera onca (Linnaeus, 1758) (Mammalia: Felidae)" (PDF). Brazilian Journal of Biological Sciences. 2 (4): 309–319. ISSN 2358-2731.