Leopardus pardalis

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Also called

ocelotPBDB

Sits inside

LeopardusPBDB

Diet

carnivorePBDB, for Felidae

Life habit

scansorialPBDB

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Environment

terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Mass

13.5 kgWikidata

• Pleistocene77%
• Holocene23%

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.

Where Leopardus pardalis and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene. Draw the map

• Panthera onca7 sites
• Pecari tajacu7 sites
• Puma concolor7 sites
• Puma yagouaroundi6 sites
• Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris5 sites
• Smilodon populator5 sites
• Cuniculus paca4 sites
• Eira barbara4 sites
• Oryzomys4 sites
• Sciurus4 sites
• Tayassu pecari4 sites
• Coendou prehensilis3 sites
• Conepatus semistriatus3 sites
• Dasyprocta3 sites
• Dasypus (Dasypus) novemcinctus3 sites
• Desmodus rotundus3 sites
• Didelphis marsupialis3 sites
• Eremotherium laurillardi3 sites
• Glyptodon clavipes3 sites
• Lontra longicaudis3 sites
• Macrauchenia patagonica3 sites
• Myrmecophaga tridactyla3 sites
• Odocoileus virginianus3 sites
• Tadarida brasiliensis3 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Leopardus pardalis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

• The fossil record of the ocelot Leopardus pardalis (Carnivora, Felidae): a new record from the southern range of its distribution and its paleonvironmental contextPrevosti et al., 2021 · Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology · journal article4
• Novos achados de mamiferos carnivoros do Pleistoceno final-Holoceno em grutas calcarias do Estado da BahiaLessa et al., 1998 · Acta Geologica Leopoldensia · journal article2
• The ocelot Leopardus pardalis (Linnaeus, 1758) (Carnivora, Felidae) in the late Pleistocene of UruguayManzuetti et al., 2021 · Historical Biology · journal article1
• Mammalian fossils from Gruta do Ioiô cave and past of the Chapada Diamantina, northeastern Brazil, using taphonomy, radiocarbon dating and paleoecologyEltink et al., 2020 · Journal of South American Earth Sciences · journal article1
• Pleistocene mammals from Uruguay: Biostratigraphic, biogeographic and environmental connotationsUbilla et al., 2009 · Quaternário do Rio Grande do Sul · book chapter1
• Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammalsAlroy, 2002 · unpublished1
• A new extinct primate among the Pleistocene megafauna of Bahia, BrazilCartelle and Hartwig, 1996 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1
• Barro Colorado Island and Tropical BiologyLeigh and Wright, 1990 · Gentry, A.H., ed., Four Neotropical Rainforests, Yale University Press, New Haven1
• An Overview of Research at Cocha Cashu Biological StationTerborgh, 1990 · Gentry, A.H., Four Neotropical Rainforests, Yale University Press, New Haven1
• Density, Productivity, and Distribution of Mammals in Two Venezuelan HabitatsEisenberg et al., 1979 · Vertebrate Ecology in the Northern Neotropics, Smithsonian Inst. Press, Washington, D.C.1

Each of the 14 occurrences 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

What may have been alongside itLeopardus through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)