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Going by dating of faunal sites were tiger-like cats were found, maybe something like the following occured. Panthera palaeosinensis may have branched off into multiple lineages, one producing the Longdan tiger around 2.5 million years ago. A Longdan tiger population may have migrated to Sunda and evolved in P. (t?). oxygnatha which subsequently evolved into the Ngandong tiger and then the modern form. The Northern population may have evolved into what we have called the Wahnsien tiger based on the similarities and may actually a different Panthera species of the tiger clad.