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That's a good idea as well and still fits Hanko and Korsos' (2007) theories that P. fossilis is both distinct and also more closely related to the lion.
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Also, Barnett et al. (2016) aren't saying P. spelaea are older than P. fossilis, they are saying that P. fossilis is P. spelaea and should happen somewhere on that branch as in the first figure in post #20.