Panthera leo spelaea
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Panthera leoPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Panthera
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Felidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At least 645 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 774 ka to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 2.58 Mya to 0 Mya.
16 occurrences of Panthera leo spelaea on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
16 occurrences- Pleistocene100%
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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Panthera leo spelaea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Panthera leo spelaea and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Panthera leo spelaea and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
160 taxa- Equus6 sites
- Bos primigenius5 sites
- Canis lupus5 sites
- Cervus elaphus5 sites
- Bison priscus4 sites
- Equus caballus4 sites
- Mammuthus primigenius4 sites
- Alces alces3 sites
- Coelodonta antiquitatis3 sites
- Crocuta crocuta spelaea3 sites
- Dama dama3 sites
- Rangifer tarandus3 sites
- Ursus3 sites
- Ursus arctos3 sites
- Bison2 sites
- Canis2 sites
- Capreolus capreolus2 sites
- Citellus2 sites
- Cricetus cricetus2 sites
- Crocuta crocuta2 sites
- Dihoplus kirchbergensis2 sites
- Lepus2 sites
- Megaloceros giganteus2 sites
- Microtus arvalis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Panthera leo spelaea, 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.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
12 references- Systematic position of the cave lion Panthera spelaea (Goldfuss) based on cranial and dentalc haracters4
- Säugetierfunde und Pleistozänstratigraphie in der Kolyma-Niederung (Pleistocene stratigraphy from the Kolyma fluvial plain and it's mammal fossils)2
- Late Pleistocene records of felids from Medicine Hat, Alberta, including the first Canadian record of the sabre-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis1
- A sabre-tooth felid from Coopers Cave (Gauteng, South Africa) and its implications for Megantereon (Felidae: Machairodontinae) taxonomy1
- The Eurogeul—first report of the palaeontological, palynological and archaeological investigations of this part of the North Sea1
- Le gisement Pleistocene moyen et superieur d'Artenac (Saint-Mary, Charent): premier bilan interdisciplinaire1
- Paleontología de macromamíferos del yacimiento mesopleistoceno de Villacastín (Segovia, España)1
- Pleistocene and Holocene mammalian faunas from the Maasvlakete near Rotterdam (The Netherlands)1
- The Late Cenozoic two-humped (Bactrian) camels of Asia1
- Asprochaliko and Kastritsa: Further Investigations of Palaeolithic Settlement and Economy in Epirus (North-West Greece)1
- Quaternary vertebrate fossil sites in the south-western Cape Province1
- Die jungpleistozänen Säugetierfaunen aus dem Travertingebiet von Taubach-Weimar-Ehringsdorf (The Early Plestocene mammalian fauna from the travetin-area of Taubach-Weimar-Ehringsdorf)1
Each of the 16 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.
Media and terms
Media content1

CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Credit
- MCZ Mammalogy
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Panthera leo · MCZ:Mamm:56777
No picture of Panthera leo spelaea was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.
Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Panthera leo spelaea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPanthera leo through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Goldfuss 1810)