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Puma or PUMA may refer to:

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puma, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2435098	https://www.gbif.org/species/2435098
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	41073	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=41073

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Carnivora : Felidae : Puma

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Reptiliomorpha	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Anthracosauria	Säve-Söderbergh 1934
-	Batrachosauria
-	Cotylosauria
-	Amniota	Haeckel 1866
-	Synapsida	Osborn 1903
-	Therapsida
infraorder	Cynodontia
-	Epicynodontia	Hopson and Kitching 2001
infraorder	Eucynodontia	Kemp 1982
-	Probainognathia	Hopson 1990
-	Mammaliamorpha	Rowe 1988
-	Mammaliaformes	Rowe 1988
class	Mammalia	Linnaeus 1758
subclass	Tribosphenida
infraclass	Eutheria
-	Placentalia	Owen 1837
-	Laurasiatheria	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Scrotifera	Waddell et al. 1999
-	Ferae	Linnaeus 1758
-	Carnivoramorpha	Wyss and Flynn 1993
-	Carnivoraformes	Flynn et al.
order	Carnivora	Bowditch 1821
suborder	Feliformia	Kretzoi 1945
superfamily	Aeluroidea	Flower 1869
family	Felidae	Gray 1821
subfamily	Felinae	Trouessart 1885
genus	Puma	Jardine 1834

Common Name

cougar

Scientific Name

Puma Jardine, 1834

Name Published In

Jardine, W. 1834. The Natural History of the Felinae. W. H. Lizars, Edinburgh. Vol. 2.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Puma	genus	belongs to Felidae	stated without evidence	Jardine, 1834
Puma	genus	belongs to Felinae	stated with evidence	Martin, 1998
Puma	genus	belongs to Felidae	stated without evidence	Salles et al., 2006
Puma	genus	belongs to Felinae	stated with evidence	Johnson et al., 2006
Puma	genus	belongs to Felinae	stated without evidence	Breitenmoser and Breitenmoser, 2017

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

11 (92%)

First Recorded Appearance

5.33 - 2.59 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

terrestrial (based on Eutheria)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Osteichthyes)

Diet

carnivore

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals.

Common Name(s)

Pumas, Cougar

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puma

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Felis lacustris ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	4.90 Ma Pliocene	4.90 Ma Pliocene
Puma concolor species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Puma	46	4.90 Ma Pliocene	0 Ma Extant
Puma yagouaroundi species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	Jaguarundi	6	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Puma yaguarondi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1834	Puma Jardine
1998	Puma Martin p. 238
2006	Puma Johnson et al. p. 74
2006	Puma Salles et al. p. 8
2017	Puma Breitenmoser and Breitenmoser p. 33

References

Alroy J. (2002) Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals

Martin L. D. (1998) Felidae, Evolution of Tertiary Mammals of North America 1, 236-242

Johnson W. E., Eizirik E., et al (2006) The Late Miocene radiation of modern Felidae: A genetic assessment, Science 311, 73-77 doi:10.1126/science.112227

Salles L. O., Cartelle C., et al (2006) Quaternary mammals from Serra do Bodoquena, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, Boletim do Museu Nacional 521, 1-12

Breitenmoser C., Breitenmoser U. (2017) A revised taxonomy of the Felidae, Cat News: Special Issue 1, 1-79

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 2005: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 3rd ed., vols. 1 & 2. 2142. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Wilson, Don E., and DeeAnn M. Reeder, eds., 1992: null. Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, 2nd ed., 3rd printing. xviii + 1207. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Nat. Library (Mamm.), 4 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Wilson & Reeder, 1993 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M. (editors). (2005). Mammal Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rd Ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. 2,142 pp. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Wilson & Reeder, 1993, PaleoDB - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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