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All cave lions have the "spelaean" nares. The Wahnsien specimen of Hooijer clearly has a tiger's nares as they are thinner. Therefore, no matter where found cave lions should have the wide nares, and the opposite for tigers.
From the angle the new Ural fossils have thinner nares to me. I'm not sure what to make of the sagittal crest. It doesn't look like the Ngandong tiger really had one, and the only complete Wahnsien skull doesn't have much of one either, although this could be due to the specimen being female or juvenile. The cave lion skulls don't look to have pronounced sagittal crests either.
The mandible that I can see looks either slightly convex or straight, a bit like the Watoealang mandible but also like some cave lion mandibles. The symphysis also seems to curve more sharply than other cats. Nevertheless, the mandibles or older tiger and cave lions overlap too much in my opinion to be identifiers.