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Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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(12-20-2018, 08:34 AM)GuateGojira Wrote:
(12-19-2018, 07:19 PM)Smilodon-Rex Wrote: Machairodus gigatic also belonged to one of the biggest big cats on the earth, well, it owed the 460MM skull which means it could up to over 400kg body-weight according to the private collection

As far I know, the largest skull found for this group belongs to Machairodus horribilis and measured 415 mm in greatest length. The authors calculated a weight of 405 kg but this is probably not accurate as they used the formula of Van Valkenburg (1990) that use condylobasal length. The problem with this formula is that ignores the intraspecies variations between cat species. For example, using this formula any lion will be heavier than any tiger just because the skull of the lions is longer than that of the tiger. We need to know if Machairodus was a species like the tiger (shorter skull and longer body) or like the lion (longer skull and shorter body) among many other morphological details.


This was the skull shared by @Smilodon-Rex :


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Seeing how it is measured would indicate the straight line GSL would be somewhat smaller but still very large.
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RE: Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines - tigerluver - 12-25-2018, 04:54 AM
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