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Panthera youngi is known from Choukoutien, northeastern China, lived about 350,000 years ago, and is apparently an ancestor of both the Eurasian cave lion Panthera leo spelaea and the American lion Panthera leo atrox. Data reviewed in 1969 suggested that the American lion, the Eurasian cave lion and the large Chinese Panthera youngi are conspecific.
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- Harington, C. R. 1969. Pleistocene remains of the lion-like cat (Panthera atrox) from the Yukon Territory and northern Alaska. Canadian Journal Earth Sciences 6(5): 1277-1288.
