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09-28-2015, 06:41 AM( This post was last modified: 09-28-2015, 09:29 AM by GrizzlyClaws )
(09-28-2015, 06:31 AM)tigerluver Wrote: For my final verdict, I feel these are both tiger teeth. I've browsed through seal skulls and they just don't match. The size variation is normal, especially considering the fact that it seems, the minimums and maximums within a species were more different back then than we find today (Gruwier et al. 2015 found this in a few deer species, for example). I believe the mortality rate for juveniles is quite high as well, so if you think about it, there should also be a high chance of finding a good amount of sub-adult specimens as fossils.
The longest Panthera teeth (in both fossil and modern) are always found in the places like China and Java, because these fangs are tiger fangs, hence it is always longer than other Panthera members'.
And the chance of having the sub-adult fossils is very probable, consider there are also many Cave lions with a cavity found in their broken canines, so these fossils are very likely belonged to the young adult specimens.