Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

[Smilodon-Rex]

(09-10-2018, 12:51 PM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(09-10-2018, 12:10 PM)Smilodon-Rex Wrote: Panthera atrox range had been covering  from USA-Canada border to Peru in South America, as a matter of fact,they may had wider range in Latino America，nice to meet you @GuateGojira

Nice to meet you too @Smilodon-Rex

I had read that the limit of habitat of the "pure" Panthera atrox is up to Chiapas in the Mexico/Guatemala border. There is a new document that says that the large jaguars from Peru are in fact Panthera atrox, however Dr Ross Barnet strongly disagree and says that they already tested the large cats from Talara and the result is that those cats are just large jaguars. Other document of Dr Yamaguchi, about the mane development, accept that the great cats in Talara are also jaguars.

In think that, for the moment, we can safely say that Panthera atrox ranged from Canada-USA border until Chiapas in Mexico, but the cats in South America are probably giant jaguars. Sadly, for the moment, there are no large cat fossils from Guatemala to Colombia, which is very bad and there is a big gap IF we believe that the large cats of Peru are in fact P. atrox.

Panthera atrox in South America has left the fur record, and new studies showed that they may left the hunting record Reply