Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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Homotherium crenatidens measurements from provided scale images:

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Length: 347 mm
Distal AW: 67.7 mm 
Midshaft DLM: 29.8 mm

Conclusion:
It's difficult to prove that H. crenatidens was more robust than modern Pantherines. The Ballesio illustration shows a humerus on the less robust side of modern cats. The North Sea fossils show a 248 kg and 242 kg based on the Christiansen and Harris (2005) equations. The Ballesio specimen, with regard to all three measures, estimates to ((197 + 195 + 159) / 3) 184 kg. I did not use the weighting method as there's a major flaw to it if percent errors are below a certain value compared to others. As I've stated before, these equations seem to underestimate often. Homotherium latidens seems to be a ways smaller based on the mandible data, its total skull size would not be much more than the smaller tiger subspecies. Reply