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Science 11 March 1977:
Vol. 195. no. 4282, pp. 981 - 982
DOI: 10.1126/science.195.4282.981
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A Cheetah-Like Cat in the North American Pleistocene

LARRY D. MARTIN 1, B. M. GILBERT 2, and DANIEL B. ADAMS 3

1 Museum of Natural History and Department of Systematics and Ecology, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66044
2 Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65201
3 Department of Systematics and Ecology, University of Kansas

The discovery of abundant skeletal remains of Felis trumani from a late Pleistocene deposit in Wyoming shows that it was as highly modified for cursorial locomotion as the cheetah (Acinonyx). Several other Pleistocene felids that have been regarded as pumas seem to be related forms. The late Pleistocene fauna of the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming is dominated by cursorial taxa.

Submitted on July 6, 1976
Revised on August 25, 1976


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