Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Alternative combination: Felis vorohuensis
Full reference: A. Berta. 1983. A new species of small cat (Felidae) from the late Pliocene-early Pleistocene (Uquian) of Argentina. Journal of Mammalogy 64(4):720-725
Belongs to Leopardus according to J. Alroy 2007
See also Berta 1983
Sister taxa: Leopardus braccatus, Leopardus colocolo, Leopardus geoffroyi, Leopardus guigna, Leopardus guttulus, Leopardus jacobita, Leopardus pardalis, Leopardus tigrinus, Leopardus wiedii
Type specimen: MMP 1047, a partial skeleton. Its type locality is 15 km N Mar del Plata, which is in a Pliocene terrestrial horizon in the Vorohué Formation of Argentina.
Ecology: scansorial carnivore
Distribution: found only at 15 km N Mar del Plata
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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