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Mesozoic mammals of Europe (2 C) N. ... Pages in category "Prehistoric mammals of Europe" The following 112 pages are in this category, out of 112 total.
This is a list of European species extinct in the Holocene that covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) A and continues to the present day. 1. This list includes the European continent and its surrounding islands. All large islands in the Mediterranean Sea are ...
Prehistoric mammals of Europe (4 C, 112 P) Pages in category "Extinct mammals of Europe" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
Rosenmüller, 1794. The cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) is a prehistoric species of bear that lived in Europe and Asia during the Pleistocene and became extinct about 24,000 years ago during the Last Glacial Maximum. Both the word cave and the scientific name spelaeus are used because fossils of this species were mostly found in caves.
Synonyms. PolycladusPomel, 1854[ 1 ] Eucladoceros (Greek for "well-branched antler") is an extinct genus of large deer whose fossils have been discovered across Eurasia, from Europe to China, spanning from the Late Pliocene - Early Pleistocene. [ 2 ] It is noted for its unusual comb-like or branching antlers.
A cave painting of a leopard in the Chauvet Cave in southern France is dated to about 25,000–37,500 years old. The last European Ice Age leopards vanished from most parts of Europe about 24,000 years ago, just before the Last Glacial Maximum. In Germany, the leopard survived at least into the early Weichselian glaciation.
Puma pardoides was originally described in 1846 as Felis pardoides. [1] A complete skull was described in 1954 as Panthera schaubi, [2] but was assigned in 1965 to a new genus as Viretailurus schaubi due to distinct differences from other pantherine cats. [3] In 2001, however, it was pointed out that the various puma-like fossils in Eurasia ...
This list follows partly from Walter Carl Hartwig's 2002 book The Fossil Primate Record [9] and John G. Fleagle's 2013 book Primate Adaptation and Evolution (3rd edition). [10] Parentheses around authors' names (and dates) indicates a change in generic name for the fossil, as stated in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). [11]