Smilodon populator

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(05-17-2022, 08:59 PM)LonePredator Wrote: That specimen with 408cm skull was the one which was considered the heaviest Populator specimen, am I correct? Wasn’t his weight estimated at just over 400kg?

So with what we have, is that 400kg weight the highest estimated weight for Smilodon Populator till now? Or is there any heavier estimated specimen?

In fact, no weight estimation exist for the skull of 408 mm at this moment. The large skull from Uruguay MNHN-P 957 is the one that was estimated at 436 kg with a GSL of 392 mm, so "Smilodon bonaërensis 10-1" was probably bigger and heavier.

About the estimations, it depends of the formula and method, as the biggest estimation at this moment is of 517 kg (check one of the previous images that I posted for details), but if we use only the information from Christiansen & Harris (2005) the heaviest one used by them is of 358.4 kg "weighted" and came from specimen MLP10-13 (Humerus of 387.5 mm), but the authors stated that bigger specimens, like the one in Paris were heavier and could reach 400 kg. Now we can see that even "Smilodon bonaërensis - 46" had a bigger humerus than MLP10-13, which suggest a bigger body mass, and as MNHN-P 957 and "Smilodon bonaërensis 10-1" are even bigger than both of them, the figure or 400 kg could be clearly surpassed by the biggest specimens of Smilodon populator.


By the way, I tried to search information about the specimen in Paris, but sadly I could not found anything, yet...... Reply