Panthera zdanskyi
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Panthera zdanskyi Temporal range: , 2.55–2.16 Ma |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Synapsida |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Genus: | Panthera |
| Species: | P. zdanskyi |
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Panthera zdanskyi Mazák, Christiansen & Kitchener, 2011 |
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The Longdan tiger or Panthera zdanskyi is an extinct species of pantherine known from the Gansu province of northwestern China.
Panthera zdanskyi is known from the holotype BIOPSI 00177, a nearly complete skull and mandible and from the paratype IVPP 13538, a rostrum, premaxilla and maxilla and much of the dentition, originally referred to Panthera palaeosinensis. It was collected in 2004 in the east slope of Longdan, south of Dongxiang Autonomous County from the Lower Pleistocene Equus fauna, dating to the Gelasian stage of the earliest , about 2.55–2.16 million years ago. It is the oldest known pantherine skull ever found.
The cladogram below follows Mazák, Christiansen and Kitchener (2011).
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