Panthera gombaszogensis
species of mammal
Panthera gombaszogensis, also known as the European jaguar or Eurasian jaguar, is a Panthera species that lived from about 2 million to 300,000 years ago in Europe, as well as likely elsewhere in Eurasia. The first fossils were excavated in 1938 in Gombasek Cave, Slovakia. P. gombaszogensis was a medium-large sized species that formed an important part of the European carnivore guild for a period of over a million years. Many authors have posited that it is the ancestor of the American jaguar (Panthera onca), with some authors considering it the subspecies Panthera onca gombaszogensis, though the close relationship between the two species has been questioned by some authors.
Taxonomy
Leo gombaszögensis was the original scientific name proposed by Miklós Kretzoi in 1938 for teeth found in deposits in Gombasek Cave, Slovakia. The spelling of the species name is based on the Hungarian name of Gombasek, Gombaszög. Jan Wagner argued in 2011 that as the original name had a diacritic mark, the species name should be emended to P. gombaszogensis which conforms to International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN) article 32.5.2, which requires names with diacritics to have them removed, normally without other change, except for umlauts in German-origin names made before 1985, which are emended to have an "e" after the former umlaut-bearing vowel. Wagner argued that as the name had a Hungarian origin, the German umlaut emendation rule was inapplicable, and thus the most common spelling of the species, P. gombaszoegensis is incorrect. The species was reassessed and placed in genus Panthera in 1971. The following are considered to belong to P. gombaszogensis as well:
Panthera toscana proposed in 1949 for carnassial teeth found in Villafranchian deposits in the Val d'Arno in Italy.
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