Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

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(04-03-2022, 02:28 PM)acutidens150 Wrote: What size would you estimate for the giant lower jaw specimen of the Ngandong tiger? As in height, body length and mass. 
Thank you.

The size of the mandible is about 270 mm reconstructed, so the skull length that I calculated for that animal was of about 400 mm. These values are about the same as the biggest tiger skull ever reported with a GSL of 406.4 mm and a mandible of 276.2 mm (Mazák, 2013), but bigger than the biggest tiger skull measured by scientists with GSL of 383 mm and a mandible of 260 mm (Mazák, 1981).

With this information at hand, we can estimate that this mandible belonged to an specimen of the same size as the biggest Amur-Bengal tiger specimens recorded, which means a head-body slightly over 220 cm, a shoulder height of about 110 cm and a weight up to 300 kg, just like the biggest Wanhsien tiger (Panthera tigris acutidens) reported at this moment in scientific litterature. Reply