Global InformationLeopardus vorohuensis information
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Felinae |
| Genus: | Leopardus |
| Species: | †L. vorohuensis
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| †Leopardus vorohuensis (Berta, 1983)
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Leopardus vorohuensis is an extinct species of feline. Fossils of the species were found in the Vorohué Formation of Argentina and dated to the Uquian age of the early middle Pleistocene.[1][2] It is the earliest known cat of the ocelot lineage of neotropical cats.[3]
- ^ Berta, A. (1983). "A New Species of Small Cat (Felidae) from the Late Pliocene – Early Pleistocene (Uquian) of Argentina". Journal of Mammalogy. 64 (4): 720–725. doi:10.2307/1380541. JSTOR 1380541.
- ^ Leopardus vorohuensis in the Paleobiology Database
- ^ Prevosti, F. (2006). "New material of Pleistocene cats (Carnivora, Felidae) from Southern South America, with comments on biogeography and the fossil record". Geobios. 39 (5): 679–694. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2005.01.004.