American lion

The American lion (Panthera leo atrox or Panthera atrox) — also known as the North American lion or American cave lion — is an extinct feline of the family Felidae and subfamily Pantherinae, endemic to North America during the Pleistocene epoch (340,000 ya to 11,000 years ago), existing for approximately 329,000 thousand years. While it was once considered a subspecies of lion c, later studies showed that it was not in fact a true lion but rather a separate Panthera species descended from…

Design and Illustration for Pleistocene (Ice Age) specimens and fossils, natural history museum signage.

The American Lion🦁 (Panthera atrox) . . . The true king of lions itself, the American Lion was a gargantuan felid of the Panthera genus… | Instagram

I dont have the time to do the #FebROARy challenge this year, so instead, I tried to quickly draw a few cats to make up for it. The Puma, American Lion, and Smilodon.

Relative sizes of the prehistoric sabertooth cats compared to an adult human.

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Homotherium guarding his kill, a Dall sheep.

(11-02-2018, 01:49 AM)GuateGojira Wrote: (10-23-2018, 04:33 PM)Spalea Wrote: Two sources about the pantera atrox's size: 1) The lions of Tsavo by Bruce D. Patterson: *This image is copyright of its or

Size comparison between a man, two prehistoric lions—the American lion (Panthera atrox) and the cave lion (Panthera spelaea), and the modern day African lion (Panthera leo).

The largest lions in history – American lions – ruled in North and South America, and thus became the hallmark of the Pleistocene landscape.