ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION - A - THE TIGER (Panthera tigris)

[tigerluver]

Thanks Guate, fortunately I've that document at hand, just lost track of it.

It's hard to determine the relative proportional size of the dentition between P. youngi, P. t. soloensis, P. t. amoyensis, and P. t. acutidens as P. youngi only has a fragmentary mandible. Looking at ratio between the M1-P1 length/M1-symphysis, the ratios are the same. The only issue with this is that some species have longer coronoid processes, increasing mandible length after the M1, increasing the skull length. For this reason, I can't say for certain if there is any difference in the proportional size of the inferior dentitions between the species at hand.  Reply