Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1981 |
Authors: | Zapfe, H |
Journal: | Folia Primatologica |
Volume: | 35 |
Pagination: | 248-258 |
Date Published: | 1981 |
Keywords: | Panthera pardus |
Abstract: | A skull of Mesopithecus pentelicus (Roth and Wagner) from the Turolian (Upper Miocene) of Pikermi (Greece) shows hole-shaped bitemarks. Considering the behavior and the character of the dentition of the groups of carnivores represented in Pikermi, it is supposed that these bitemarks have been caused by a felid of the size of a leopard. In the fauna of Pikermi only Metailurus parvulus (Hensel) can be taken into consideration. By the defects on a skull of a juvenile Australopithecine, interpreted by Brain in 1970 as bitemarks of a leopard, the above explanation gets a very essential support. |
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