A Pleistocene Jaguar from North-Central Nebraska

Authors

C. B. Schultz, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Larry D. Martin, University of Kansas
M. R. Schultz, Institute for Tertiary-Quaternary StudiesFollow

Date of this Version

1985

Comments

1985. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences, XIII: 93-98. Copyright © 1985 Schultz, Martin and Schultz

Abstract

A nearly complete skull of an extinct jaguar, Panthera onca augusta from the Mullen Assemblage in Cherry County, Nebraska, provides new information concerning North American jaguars. The presence of Cervalces, Symbos, Tapirus, and Panthera onca in the Mullen Assemblage seems to indicate an extension of the Pleistocene spruce taiga into north-central Nebraska in the Early to Middle Illinoian.