Panthera
Searched as Panthera onca andina n. ssp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Panthera as the accepted name.
Panthera is a genus within the family Felidae, and one of two extant genera in the subfamily Pantherinae. It contains the largest living members of the cat family. There are five living species: the jaguar, leopard, lion, snow leopard and tiger. Numerous extinct species are also named, including the cave lion and American lion.

Termininja · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
- FelinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Felidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 2.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 2.58 Mya and 11.7 ka, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Panthera on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
1 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Panthera and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Panthera and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
2,167 taxa- Equus87 sites
- Bovidae51 sites
- Cervus51 sites
- Canis lupus45 sites
- Microtus44 sites
- Lepus42 sites
- Crocuta crocuta41 sites
- Canis40 sites
- Hystrix37 sites
- Felis36 sites
- Gazella36 sites
- Sus scrofa33 sites
- Hippopotamus amphibius29 sites
- Taurotragus oryx29 sites
- Rhinocerotidae28 sites
- Vulpes vulpes27 sites
- Ceratotherium simum26 sites
- Hipparion26 sites
- Lupulella mesomelas26 sites
- Bison25 sites
- Equus quagga burchelli25 sites
- Homotherium25 sites
- Myodes25 sites
- Ursus25 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 360 sites for Panthera, and this reads 240 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content2
Picture of Panthera
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Termininja
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Hialda Alpizar
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Panthera”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFelinae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Oken 1816