Panthera onca augusta, Cat jawbone
Description:
A cast of a partial right maxilla with an incomplete canine tooth associated with Pleistocene North American jaguar (Panthera onca augusta) remains.
Alternative combination: Felis onca. This is a cast of a USNM specimen.
- Site: SC; Colleton Co.; Edisto Beach
- Site Number: NH39B
- Era: Cenozoic
- Period: Quaternary
- Epoch: Pleistocene
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Carnivora
- Family: Felidae
- Genus: Panthera
- Species: Panthera onca
- Formation: Undet. off-shore unit
- Collection: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection
- Object Name: Carnivores
- Object Id: PV4891
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