Cheetah Acinonyx pardinensis (Felidae, Carnivora) from the Early Pleistocene of Crimea (Taurida Cave).

Autor: Gimranov DO; Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yekaterinburg, Russia. djulfa250@rambler.ru., Madurell-Malapeira J; Earth Science Department, University of Florence, Florence, Italy., Jiangzuo Q; Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China., Lavrov AV; Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia., Lopatin AV; Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Doklady biological sciences : proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Biological sciences sections [Dokl Biol Sci] 2024 Oct; Vol. 518 (1), pp. 234-238. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 28.
DOI: 10.1134/S0012496624701175
Abstrakt: A mandible fragment of Acinonyx pardinensis (Croizet et Jobert, 1828) is described from the Early Pleistocene locality in the Taurida cave (Crimea, Late Villafranchian, about 1.8-1.5 Ma). This is the first discovery of the genus Acinonyx in the Pleistocene of Crimea. Along with other felids, such as Homotherium, Megantereon, Panthera, Lynx, and Puma, cheetahs were typical representatives of the Late Villafranchian faunas of Eurasia. In the Taurida locality, Acinonyx pardinensis is co-occurred with Homotherium crenatidens, Megantereon adroveri, and Lynx issiodorensis.
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