Panthera pardus spelaea
Panthera pardus spelaea, sometimes called the European Ice Age leopard or Late Pleistocene leopard, is a fossil leopard subspecies, which roamed Europe in the Late Pleistocene. The youngest known bone fragments date to about 32,000 to 26,000 years ago, and are similar in size to modern leopard bones.
| Panthera pardus spelaea Temporal range: | |
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| Skeleton at the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze | |
| Rock art depiction of a leopard from Chauvet Cave | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Pantherinae |
| Genus: | Panthera |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | †P. p. spelaea |
| Trinomial name | |
| †Panthera pardus spelaea (Bächler, 1936) | |
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