American Lion (Panthera atrox)

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(06-18-2022, 04:45 PM)Utkarsh Wrote: The skull was mentioned on carnivora 
Read it 8 months ago I have the screenshot But it was of his first 610 overexaggeration 
332 kg is of American lion 
Actually most of the sites whatever I  have seen don't give the formulas by which they calculate
Possibility is that it could be true but they didn't showed their whole study 
As it is difficult for fan bases to create sites and such an level of being a fan boy/ girl

If it was mentioned there, did that person provided any evidence? I don't visit Carnivora and many other people here too, so, can you put that information here too?

An average if 332 kg for male Panthera atrox is an exageration, the real range was probably about 251 kg, check that like I showed you before with the comparative images of the skulls, the difference between the biggest specimens of each species is not as incredible as some people believe. Now, it you are quoting Wheeler & Jefferson (2009), you need to be careful, in table 5B they made several estimation of body mass using several formulas, so they result is that the average of the average figures is of 251 kg, the average of the maximum figures is of 332 kg and the average of the minimum figures is of 218 kg. In conclution, based in they study, the maximum weight using all the formulas is about 332 kg, and the average using all the formulas is of 251 kg. This is very close to the body mass estimations from Christiansen & Harris (2009).


If you see a body mass but the person that made the calculation did not provided any formula or the explanation about how they made it, don't trust on it, simple. Any published per-review document shows the method and they results, even many posters here, like me, did provide or methods so we can be 100% transparent with our results. Again, if some one "claim" something without hard evidence, is simple unreliable. Reply