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In European Ice Age caves, leopard bones are far rarer than those of lions, and all currently known fossils belong to adults, suggesting that they rarely, if ever, raised their cubs in caves. Where leopard remains are found in larger caves, they are often found in the cave's deeper recesses, as in Baumann's and Zoolithen Cave in Germany.
A cold-adapted subspecies of the leopard, Panthera pardus spelaea, was widespread in Europe during the Pleniglacial and Late Glacial. [27] A 8850 BCE record from the Franco-Cantabrian region, [ 2 ] another from the Preboreal or Boreal of Greece, and two from the Sub-Atlantic of western and southern Ukraine could indicate that leopards survived ...
The oldest widely accepted fossils of P. fossilis in Europe date to around 700,000 years ago, [19] [20] [3] [21] with possible older fossils from Western Siberia dating to the late Early Pleistocene. [22] Different authors considered Panthera fossils as either a distinct species ancestral to P. spelaea, [23] or as a subspecies of P. spelaea.
Panthera uncia pyrenaica, also known as the Arago snow leopard or the European snow leopard, is a subspecies of snow leopard that lived during the Middle Pleistocene in southern France. [ 1 ] Taxonomy
At Apidimia, Caves B and C held fossils of leopard (Panthera pardus) and European Badger (Meles meles), whereas Caves C and D contained fossils from multiple lynx (Lynx lynx). Cave C also provided fossil remains of the European Wildcat species (Felis silvestris) and red fox (Vulpes vulpes), as well as remains of the beech marten (Martes foina ...
Leopards depicted in cave paintings in Chauvet Cave provide indirect evidence of leopard presence in Europe. [46] Leopard fossils dating to the Late Pleistocene were found in Biśnik Cave in south-central Poland. [48] [45] Fossil remains were also excavated in the Iberian [49] [50] and Italian Peninsula, [51] [52] and in the Balkans.
This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils. Some entries in this list are notable for a single, unique find, while others are notable for the large number of fossils found there.
Europe is relatively rich in fossils from the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary, and much of what is known about European dinosaurs dates from this time. During the Maastrichtian the end of the Cretaceous dinosaurs were dominating western and Central Europe as the Tremp Formation in Spain dates back to that age.