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07-21-2021, 07:39 PM( This post was last modified: 07-21-2021, 08:05 PM by tigerluver )
(07-21-2021, 08:48 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: Some Eastern Cave lions were absolutely huge, and maybe they were smaller on average than the Western Cave lions, but those top notch specimens were just as large as the largest Western Cave lions.
And they did have proportionally longer/thinner canine teeth.
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Monstrous specimens!
Do you know the alleged localities? What would you say the length measurements of the specimens are?
The giant jaw looks Romanian in both size and preservation.
The skull has other peculiarities. I have never seen a truly complete carnivore skull from Eurasia on the fossil market, they are all restored or composite to increase the price. Maybe it's just the specimen, but the skull shows some oddities like a very short muzzle (could be camera angle), the posterior edge of the occiput goes very far past the condyles, the posterior arch is very narrow, there is plastering on the anterior end of the left hemimandible, the mandible is glossy and uniform in color while the skull is dull in color, and parts of the skull (like the occiput and area anterior to it) are different colors (which gives some concern for restoration work).