Panthera leo atrox

Dantheman9758 at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Panthera leoPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Panthera
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Felidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 198 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 210 ka to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
39 occurrences of Panthera leo atrox on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
39 occurrences- Pleistocene97%
- Holocene3%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
6 formations
- Kingsdown Formation2
- Tacubaya Formation1
- Chapala Formation1
- Good Creek Formation1
- American Falls Lake Bed E Formation1
- San Pedro Formation1
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The named rock units Panthera leo atrox has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 32 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Panthera leo atrox and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Panthera leo atrox and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
666 taxa- Aenocyon dirus18 sites
- Equus14 sites
- Canis latrans10 sites
- Panthera onca10 sites
- Smilodon fatalis10 sites
- Equus conversidens9 sites
- Lepus9 sites
- Mammuthus columbi8 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus8 sites
- Paramylodon harlani8 sites
- Procyon lotor8 sites
- Puma concolor8 sites
- Camelops7 sites
- Odocoileus7 sites
- Camelops hesternus6 sites
- Equus mexicanus6 sites
- Erethizon dorsatum6 sites
- Hemiauchenia6 sites
- Holmesina septentrionalis6 sites
- Lynx rufus6 sites
- Platygonus6 sites
- Tapirus6 sites
- Taxidea taxus6 sites
- Tremarctos floridanus6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Panthera leo atrox, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
32 references- The fossil American lion (Panthera atrox) in South America: Palaeobiogeographical implications6
- Quaternary vertebrate localities of Virginia and their avian and mammalian fauna3
- The Ventana Complex: new dates and new ideas on its place in early Holocene western prehistory1
- Additions to the Pleistocene Mammal Faunas of South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia1
- Vertebrates of the Last Interglaciation in Canada: A Review, with New Data1
- Relationships between North and South American Smilodon1
- Preliminary report on archaeological and paleoenvironmental studies in the area of El Cedral, San Luis Potosi, Mexico 1977- 19801
- Faunal correlation of Pleistocene deposits in Western Canada1
- Reevaluation of Pleistocene scarab beetles from Rancho La Brea, California (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)1
- A cheetah-like cat in the North American Pleistocene1
- Hintlian, 19751
- Pleistocene mammals from Aguascalientes, central Mexico1
Each of the 39 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 20 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content2

Picture of Panthera leo atrox
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Dantheman9758 at English Wikipedia
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
Structured light scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Credit
- LACM Rancho La Brea
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Panthera atrox · LACM:rlb:HC 2929-R-2
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPanthera leo through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leidy 1853)