Puma pardoides

Puma pardoides
Temporal range:
Skull
Life reconstruction
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Felidae
Genus: Puma
Species:
P. pardoides
Binomial name
Puma pardoides
(Owen, 1846)
Synonyms
  • Felis pardoides Owen, 1846
  • Panthera schaubi Viret, 1954
  • Viretailurus schaubi (Viret, 1954) sensu Hemmer, 1964

Puma pardoides is an extinct prehistoric cat belonging to the genus Puma known from fossils found in Europe and West Asia during the late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene epochs, spanning from around 3 million to 800,000 years ago.