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(08-16-2015, 04:42 AM)GuateGojira Wrote: Interesting that the mandible of the cave "lion" is not as flat as a modern lion.
Sorry for my ignorance, but as I don't smoke, I don't know the exact length of a box of cigarettes, I estimate it as c.10 cm. Am I right?
If that is correct, the mandible could be about c.275 mm in total length, which is about the same than the largest modern Amur tiger mandible at 276 mm (Mazák, 1983).
Well, even I personally never own any cigarette box in China, but I guess this should be the standard size.
BTW, the subfossil canine is about 74-75 mm from the gumline which is exactly same as Madla's.
And I do believe that the late Pleistocene/early Holocene Amur tigers were about the same size as the modern Bengal tigers.