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(08-16-2015, 05:04 AM)GuateGojira Wrote: Sorry, I believed that you were talking about the canine of the mandible, not about the large one in the beginning of the page.
Yes, that is a large upper canine. The modern canines are also very large, c.6 cm to the gum line is very impressive.
I also think that the Pleistocene tigers in northern China were of the same size than modern Amur tigers and Bengal-Nepal specimens. Imagine a tiger of 220 cm in head-body, 110 cm in shoulder height, a skull of c.400 mm in greatest length and a body mass of up to 272 kg. These are the largest measurements recorded for Bengal and Amur tigers, and I think they were also the dimensions of the large Pleistocene Chinese specimens, specifically the Wanhsien tiger (P. t. acutidens). Just the Ngandong tiger (P. t. soloensis) surpassed this size, although we can't forget the huge tiger fossil skull from Manchuria, a hidden treasure, lost for the science.... for the moment.
The mysterious huge tiger skulls have been found everywhere in China, from the central area to Manchuria.
Just all of these fossil treasures were lost and didn't get treated properly.