
Einn mikilvægasti fundarstaður beinaleifa amerískra ljónsins er tjörupytturinn La Brea í Los Angeles.

Eins og með önnur löngu útdauð dýr veit enginn nákvæmlega hvernig ameríska ljónið (Panthera atrox) leit út en hér er ein tilgáta.
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- Broggini, C. o.fl. (2024). From Caves to the Savannah, the Mitogenome History of Modern Lions (Panthera leo) and Their Ancestors. International journal of molecular sciences, 25(10), 5193. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25105193
- DeSantis, L. R. o.fl. (2012). Implications of diet for the extinction of saber-toothed cats and American lions. PloS one, 7(12), e52453. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052453
- Hayden, T. (2024, 9. júlí). Meet Biggest Big Cat at the Tar Pits: The American Lion. La Brea Tar Pits. https://tarpits.org/stories/meet-biggest-big-cat-tar-pits-american-lion
- Barnett, R. o.fl. (2009). Phylogeography of lions (Panthera leo ssp.) reveals three distinct taxa and a late Pleistocene reduction in genetic diversity. Molecular Ecology, 18, 1668–1677. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04134.x
- Prescott, G. W. o.fl. (2012). Quantitative global analysis of the role of climate and people in explaining late Quaternary megafaunal extinctions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(12), 4527–4531. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1113875109
- Dantheman9758. (2007). PantheraLeoAtrox1.jpg. Wikimedia Commons. Birt undir CC BY-SA 3.0 leyfi. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PantheraLeoAtrox1.jpg
- Daryl Mitchell. (2012). American Lion. Flickr. Birt undir CC BY-SA 2.0 leyfi. https://www.flickr.com/photos/daryl_mitchell/7958798106/
Hvað getið þið sagt mér um forsögulegu ljónin sem lifðu í Norður-Ameríku á ísöld?