Articles | Volume 19, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-19-131-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-19-131-2016
Research article
 | 
20 Jul 2016
Research article |  | 20 Jul 2016

First occurrence of Panthera atrox (Felidae, Pantherinae) in the Mexican state of Hidalgo and a review of the record of felids from the Pleistocene of Mexico

Victor Manuel Bravo-Cuevas, Jaime Priego-Vargas, Miguel Ángel Cabral-Perdomo, and Marco Antonio Pineda Maldonado

Cited articles

Alvarez, T. and Polaco, O. J.: Restos de moluscos y mamíferos cuaternarios procedentes de Loltún, Yucatán, Cuaderno de Trabajo del Departmento de Prehistoria, INAH, México, 26, 1–41, 1982.
Arroyo-Cabrales, J. and Alvarez, S. T.: A preliminary report of the Late Quaternary mammal fauna from Loltún Cave, Yucatán, México, in: Ice age cave faunas of North America, edited by: Schubert, B. W., Mead, J. I., and Graham, R. W., Indiana University Press and Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado, 262–272, 2003.
Arroyo-Cabrales, J. and Johnson, E.: 1998, La Cueva de San Josecito, Nuevo León, México: Una primera interpretación paleoambiental, in: Avances en Investigación, Publicación Especial 1. Paleontología de Vertebrados, edited by: Carranza-Castañeda, O. and Córdoba-Méndez, D. A., Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo, Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Tierra, Pachuca, Hidalgo, México, 120–126, 1998.
Arroyo-Cabrales, J. and Polaco, O. J.: Caves and the Pleistocene vertebrate paleontology of Mexico, in: Ice age cave faunas of North America, edited by: Schubert, B. W., Mead, J. I., and Graham, R. W., Indiana University Press and Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado, 273–291, 2003.
Arroyo Cabrales, J., Polaco, O. J., and Johnson, E.: La mastofauna del Cuaternario tardío de México, in: Bases de datos SNIB-CONABIO, Proyecto No. G012, INAH, México, 2005.
Download
Short summary
We report the first occurrence of an American lion from the late Pleistocene (≈120 000 years ago) of southeastern Hidalgo, central Mexico. The fossil material includes a lower canine tooth and a manus bone. Some areas of central Mexico were suitable hunting sites for the American lion, considering the high diversity of large mammalian herbivores that have been recorded there. The Mexican record of felids represents an important part of the Pleistocene North American diversity.
Share