Fossil Tooth of a Leopard (Panthera Pardus) (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Fossil Tooth of a Leopard (Panthera Pardus)

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Fossil tooth of a leopard (Panthera pardus), one of the three carnivore species from the Tam Ham Marklot cave’s fossil assemblage. The leopard is still found today in Southeast Asia, although it is suspected to extirpated from Laos.

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Image courtesy of Nicolas Bourgon.

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