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Lions seem to have first evolved in east Africa around the Plio-Peistocene boundary (ca. 2 million years ago). [21] The earliest remains of lions in Eurasia have been dated to around 1 million years ago, and lions became ubiquitous in Europe around 700-600,000 years ago. [22] [23] These fossils are classified as Panthera fossilis.
The oldest widely accepted fossils of P. fossilis in Europe date to around 700,000-600,000 years ago, such as that from Pakefield in England, [21] [22] [3] [23] with possible older fossils from Western Siberia dating to the late Early Pleistocene, [24] with a 2024 study suggesting a presence in Spain by 1 million years ago during the latest ...
Size comparison of Panthera fossilis and its descendant Panthera spelaea with humans. Remains of P. fossilis indicate that it was larger than the modern lion and was among the largest known cats ever, with the largest specimens suggested to have a body length of 2.5–2.9 metres (8.2–9.5 ft), shoulder height of 1.4–1.5 metres (4.6–4.9 ft) and body mass of 400–500 kilograms (880–1,100 ...
Extinct species of lion known from the Middle Pleistocene of Europe and Asia. One of the largest known species of Panthera. Considered to be the ancestor of P. spelaea. [72] Panthera gombaszoegensis: Europe, possibly Asia and Africa, 2.0 to 0.35 MYA Ranged across Europe, as well as possibly Asia and Africa from around 2 million to 350,000 years ...
Skull with a hole determined to have been caused by a lion bite. Fossils of leopards in Europe are sometimes found in caves, where they apparently sought shelter or hid their prey. They generally preferred smaller caves, most likely because larger caves were usually occupied by larger predators such as cave bears, cave lions , or humans. In ...
Map of Europe. 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.
The earliest fossils recognisable as lions were found at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and are estimated to be up to 2 million years old. [32] Estimates for the divergence time of the modern and cave lion lineages range from 529,000 to 392,000 years ago based on mutation rate per generation time of the modern lion.
Panthera gombaszoegensis, also known as the European jaguar, is a Panthera species that lived from about 2.0 to 0.35 million years ago in Europe, as well as likely elsewhere in Eurasia. [1] The first fossils were excavated in 1938 in Gombasek Cave, Slovakia. [2]