Puma pumoides

Puma pumoides is an extinct prehistoric cat that was described in 1956 by Alfredo Castellanos using the scientific name Felis pumoides. Castellanos excavated its fossil remains in the Reartes Valley located in the province of Córdoba, Argentina in a stratum called 'Brocherense bed', which probably dates to the Pliocene.^[1]

Puma pumoides Temporal range: 3.0–2.5 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Late Pliocene
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Carnivora
Suborder:	Feliformia
Family:	Felidae
Subfamily:	Felinae
Genus:	Puma
Species:	†P. pumoides
Binomial name
†Puma pumoides (Castellanos, 1956)
Synonyms
Felis pumoides Castellanos, 1956 Puma (Herpailurus) pumoides

Description

Fossil remains consisted of a maxilla, the orbital section of the frontal bone, a part of a mandible, a petrosal, a femur, a lumbar vertebrae, and a few parts of each a humerus, tibia, ulna, and radius. Because of the similarity of these holotype parts with the living jaguarundi, it was preliminarily subordinated to the genus Puma.^[2]