BULLETIN FLORIDA MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY VOL. 40(3)


POPULATIONS
 araucanus
 arundivaga
 azteca
 bangsi
 brown
 cabrarae
 californica
 capricornensis
 concolor
Everglades coryi -
 Historic coryi
 Recent coyi -
 costaricensis
 cougar
 discolor
 green -
 hippolestes
 incarum
 kaibabensis
 mayensis
 missoulensis
 olympus
 oregonensis
 osgoodi-
 patagonica -
 pearson-
 puma
 schoregori
 soderstromi
 stanleyana
 vancouverensis
 0.25


SKULL PROFILES


0.35


0.55 0.65


 PROFILE HIGHPOINT LOCATION




Figure 9. Means and standard deviations for value of X when Y=1.0 (the high point) for all populations
measured. Historic coryi shows the greatest inflation of the anterior skull, followed by recent coryi. The
extinct P. c. couguar, the eastern cougar, also shows this tendency, as does oregonensis, cougars from the
northwestern United States.


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