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Science 14 September 1979:
Vol. 205. no. 4411, pp. 1155 - 1158
DOI: 10.1126/science.205.4411.1155
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The Cheetah: Native American

DANIEL B. ADAMS 1

1 Department of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley 94720

Two North American fossil species of large felids, hitherto regarded as Late Cenozoic pumas (mountain lion), are in fact closely related to the living cheetah, Acinonyx, of Africa and Eurasia. A new subgenus (Miracinonyx) is proposed for the American species. Cheetahs and pumas may have had a common ancestor in the Miocene of North America.

Submitted on October 11, 1978
Revised on February 23, 1979


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