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06-07-2015, 11:47 PM( This post was last modified: 06-08-2015, 12:18 AM by GrizzlyClaws )
Well, that Wanhsien tiger skull looks pretty 'infantile' to me, so i also suspect it is a juvenile specimen.
The symphisis curvature of the mandile would be nearly 100% identical if that Wanhsien tiger skull is an adult specimen.
The Panthera youngi looks very closely related to both Wanhsien tiger and the mandible, maybe it could be an offshoot of the tiger clade, like the descendant of an ancestral species of the tiger clade such as the Panthera zdanskyi.