Panthera youngi

Short description: Extinct species of carnivore

Panthera youngi

Temporal range: Middle Pleistocene

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Chordata
Class:  | Mammalia
Order:  | Carnivora
Suborder:  | Feliformia
Family:  | Felidae
Subfamily:  | Pantherinae
Genus:  | Panthera
Species:  |

†P. youngi

Binomial name
†Panthera youngi

(Pei, 1934)[1]

Synonyms

* Felis youngi Pei, 1934
* Uncia youngi (Pei, 1934)

Panthera youngi is an extinct species of pantherine felid which lived in northeastern China during the Middle Pleistocene. Originally assigned to the genus Felis, the species was described by Chinese paleontologist Pei Wenzhong in 1934 based on fossil remains excavated in the Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site.[1] It is estimated to have lived about 350,000 years ago in the Pleistocene epoch. It was suggested that it was conspecific with Panthera atrox and P. spelaea due to their extensive similarities. Some dental similarities were also noted with the older P. fossilis, however, Panthera youngi showed more derived features.[2][3] Putative fossils of this species, tiger and leopard have been discovered in Japan, but mitochondrial and nuclear genome analysis indicates that they represent P. spelaea.[4]

## References

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1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Pei, W. C. (1934). "On the Carnivora from Locality 1 of Choukoutien". Palaeontologica Sinica Series C, Fascicle 1: 1–166.
2. ↑ Harington, C. R. (1969). "Pleistocene remains of the lion-like cat (Panthera atrox) from the Yukon Territory and northern Alaska". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 6 (5): 1277–1288. doi:10.1139/e69-127. Bibcode: 1969CaJES...6.1277H.
3. ↑ Sotnikova, M.V.; Foronova, I.V. (2014). "First Asian record of Panthera (Leo) fossilis (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) in the Early Pleistocene of Western Siberia, Russia". Integrative Zoology 9 (4): 517–530. doi:10.1111/1749-4877.12082. PMID 24382145.
4. ↑ Sun, X.; Peng, L.; Tsutaya, T.; Jiangzuo, Q.; Hasegawa, Y.; Hou, Y.; Han, Y.; Zhuang, Y. et al. (2026). "The Japanese Archipelago sheltered cave lions, not tigers, during the Late Pleistocene". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 123 (6). doi:10.1073/pnas.2523901123.

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