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QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS 卷:262
The tale of a short-tailed cat: New outstanding Late Pleistocene fossils of Lynx pardinus from southern Italy
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Mecozzi, Beniamino1  Sardella, Raffaele1  Boscaini, Alberto2  Cherin, Marco3  Costeur, Loic4  Madurell-Malapeira, Joan5,6  Pavia, Marco7  Profico, Antonio8  Iurino, Dawid A.1,3 
[1] Sapienza Univ Roma, Dipartimento Sci Terra, PaleoFactory, Piazzale A Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[2] Univ Buenos Aires, Fac Ciencias Exactas & Nat, Inst Ecol Gene Tica & Evolut Buenos Aires IEGEBA, DEGE, RA-2160 Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[3] Univ Perugia, Dipartimento Fis & Geol, Via A Pascoli, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[4] Nat Hist Museum Basel, Augustinergasse 2, CH-4001 Basel, Switzerland
[5] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Inst Catala Paleontol Miguel Crusafont, Edifici ICTA ICP,Columnes S-N,Campus UAB, Barcelona 08193, Spain
[6] Univ Autonoma Barcelona, Fac Ciencies, Dept Geol, Edifici C,Campus UAB, Barcelona 08193, Spain
[7] Univ Torino, Dipartimento Sci Terra, Museo Geol & Paleontol, Via Valperga Caluso 35, I-10125 Turin, Italy
[8] Univ York, PalaeoHub, Wentworth Way Heslington, York YO10 5NG, N Yorkshire, England
关键词: Europe;    Pleistocene;    Carnivora;    Felidae;    Lynx;    Evolution;    Taxonomy;    Paleobiogeography;    Paleoecology;   
DOI  :  10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.106840
来源: Elsevier
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【 摘 要 】

The pardel lynx Lynx pardinus is today restricted to small populations living in southern Iberian Peninsula. However, this endangered species was widely spread throughout Iberia until historical times and is currently the subject of intense conservation programs. Paleontological data suggest that its past geographical range was much wider, including also southern France and northern Italy. Here, we report exceptionally preserved fossil remains of L. pardinus from the Late Pleistocene (about 40'000 years) of Ingarano (Italy), which represent the largest sample of fossil lynx currently known in Europe. This new evidence allows (1) to revise the taxonomy of European fossil lynxes, (2) to extend far southeast the paleobiogeographical distribution of L. pardinus, and (3) to offer new insights on the evolutionary history (e.g., relationships with other extinct and extant lynx species) and paleobiology (e.g., intraspecific variation, body mass) of this iconic European felid. (C) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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