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The Cave Lion (Panthera spelaea and Panthera fossilis)

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The Cave Lion (Panthera spelaea and Panthera fossilis)

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06-17-2018, 11:24 PM ( This post was last modified: 06-17-2018, 11:25 PM by tigerluver )

Here's the mandible of a lion clade member from about 1.45 mya:

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This specimen is from Africa and after the P. spelaea and P. leo split in accord with Barnett et al. (2016). For the most part the mandible has the jaguar/tiger-like traits of the cave lions at this point. Note how the body is tall, which is a shared trait of all pantherine cats older than 1 mya. The mandible is about 225 mm and thus from a skull around 340 mm.
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