What is American lion?
{{Speciesbox | fossil_range = [[Pleistocene]]–[[Holocene]], {{fossil range|0.34|0.011}} |extinct=true | image = Panthera atrox.jpg | image_caption = Skeleton from the La Brea tar pits at the [[La Brea Tar Pits#George C. Page Museum|George C. Page Museum]] | genus = Panthera | species = atrox | range_map = Cave lion range.png | range_map_caption =The maximal range of cave lions - red indicates ''Panthera spelaea'', blue ''Panthera atrox'', and green ''Panthera leo leo/Panthera leo persica''. | authority = ([[Joseph Leidy|Leidy]], 1853) }} The '''American lion''' (''Panthera leo'' or ''P. atrox'') is also known as '''Naegele’s giant jaguar''' or '''American cave lion'''. It is an [[extinct]] species of [[lion]] which lived in [[North America]] during the [[Pleistocene]] (340,000 years ago to 11,000 years ago). It existed for about 330,000 thousand years.<ref name=dinosaurs.about>{{cite web | last = Strauss, Bob 2016 update | title = American Lion (''Panthera leo atrox'') | publisher = [[The New York Times Company]] | url = http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/mesozoicmammals/p/American-Lion-Panthera-Leo-Atrox.htm | access-date = 2012-03-10 | archive-date = 2016-09-27 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160927040557/http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/mesozoicmammals/p/American-Lion-Panthera-Leo-Atrox.htm | url-status = dead }}</ref> The American lion belonged to the [[family (biology)|family]] [[Felidae]]. By analysing the species' genes, scientists have shown that it shared the [[Common ancestor|same ancestor]] as the [[Panthera leo spelaea|Eurasian cave lion]] (''Panthera leo spelaea'' or ''P. spelaea'').<ref>{{cite journal|author=R. Barnett |display-authors = etal |title=Phylogeography of lions (''Panthera leo'' ssp.) reveals three distinct taxa and a late Pleistocene reduction in genetic diversity|year=2009|journal=Molecular Ecology|volume=18|issue=8|pages=1668–1677|doi=10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04134.x|pmid=19302360|s2cid = 46716748 }}</ref> Most remains have come from the [[La Brea tar pits]]. The American lio