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Panthera leo spelaea

Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae

Taxonomy
Felis spelaea was named by Goldfuss (1810).

It was recombined as Uncia spelea by Cope (1880); it was recombined as Felis leo spelaea by Boule and De Villeneuve (1927) and Kurten (1968); it was recombined as Panthera spelaea by Sotnikova and Nikolskiy (2006); it was recombined as Panthera leo spelaea by Barnett et al. (2009).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1810Felis spelaea Goldfuss
1880Uncia spelea Cope p. 858
1927Felis leo spelaea Boule and De Villeneuve p. 75
1968Felis leo spelaea Kurten p. 85
2006Panthera spelaea Sotnikova and Nikolskiy p. 220
2009Panthera leo spelaea Barnett et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
subclassSynapsida
Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
Mammaliamorpha
Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
RankNameAuthor
Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
Theriiformes()
Trechnotheria
Cladotheria
Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
Eutheria()
Placentalia
Boreoeutheria
Laurasiatheria
Scrotifera
Ferae()
CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
suborderFeliformiaKretzoi 1945
superfamilyFeloideaHay 1930
familyFelidae
subfamilyFelinaeTrouessart 1885
genusPantheraOken 1816
speciesleo()
subspeciesspelaea(Goldfuss 1810)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Panthera leo spelaea Goldfuss 1810
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available