Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

[GrizzlyClaws]

I think it probably belongs to the same level, since those smugglers didn't have any professional kit to dig through into many different levels, they probably took in one shot at the same level of the fossil fauna. There are a lot of mismanagement among the local government which allowed those smugglers to overrun the fossil sites.

So it is quite clear that this mandible didn't belong to the same timeline as the Panthera youngi, although both species shared a lot of similarities as being part of the tiger clade.

The Toba eruption had definitely driven both Panthera tigris acutidens and Crocuta crocuta spelaea into extinction in China, and both species seemed to perish soon after the Toba eruption.

The ecosystems of the Asian Far East were badly damaged by that eruption, and there was an ecological vacuum for many millennia until the re-colonization by the modern tigers in the recent time. Reply