Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

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(05-30-2021, 12:15 PM)Panthera Wrote: Han and Zhang, 1978. Fig. II (#4), page 10, Panthera tigris right P4 (has not scale bar). The Late Pleistocene. Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, Central China. 
This article also mention a tiger canine length of 120 mm with labiolingual dimension(gum line?) width of 33 mm (the first line, page 260), but has not picture be show.

The total canine length of 120 mm and presumably 33 mm for the AP length is well within the normal spectrum for the modern tigers.

Even the most extreme case for the modern tigers could achieve the extent of 160+ mm/50 mm, and I am quite certain that the upper limit for the late Pleistocene tigers from the Mainland China should be no less than that. Reply