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Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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Radius to humerus ratios have a strong correlation to the relative robusiticity and density of a species.

This table is from Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives by Mauricio Anton.

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Note how low the ratio is for Smilodon, supporting the idea that this is a freakishly robust animal. 

Diedrich (2011) mentions a female specimen of P. spelaea spelaea with the following dimensions:

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Thus, the radius/humerus ratio for this holotype is 0.903, essentially identical to the modern lion. I'm slowly becoming more inclined to accept the "leo" addition to the cave lion name. Skull differences are even found between the tiger subspecies, and might be a better characteristic for subspeciation rather than speciation. Body-wise, the lion and P. spelaea sit in exactly the same unique class. The jaguar and leopard are far, far off from even P. atrox in body characteristics.
 
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RE: Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines - tigerluver - 08-16-2014, 06:55 AM
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RE: Sabertoothed Cats - peter - 06-11-2016, 03:58 PM
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