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Jaguar

Panthera onca

Classification

Family
Felidae

Panthera onca augusta is an extinct subspecies of the jaguar that was endemic to North America from Middle to Late Pleistocene epoch. History and naming Initial finds The first published fossils were found on the Loup Fork of the Platte River in Nebraska, initially misinterpreted as the Niobrara River, by Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden in 1857. Hayden sent the fossils to Joseph Leidy at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, who named Felis augustus in 1872 based on these remains.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Brazil · 1,466Peru · 62France