Freak Felids - A Discussion of History's Largest Felines

[tigerluver]

@GuateGojira On pages 55-57 I made some overlay comparisons. As of now I have been not able to find a good match, but maybe I’ll find one when I visit some collections. 

I scaled with body height and it appears you scaled with the most proximal end of the fragment which would explain why the body was always thicker in your overlays. In my hypothesis, the mandible likely had a taller vertical ramus in comparison to the body.

In the end, I will use multivariate regression to come up with an exact number for GSL and mandible length. The data collection for that will be a few months away. 

The 310 mm mandible (LAC 2900-3) is actually from the second largest skull of P. atrox, which measured 458 mm if I remember correctly. The canine of the fragment is quite larger and the M1 if it were complete would have been about the same size if not a smidge larger. Considering tigers have proportionaly shorter teeth when corrected for allometry, the fragment should be larger than LAC 2900-3.

@GrizzlyClaws good eye. Another interesting thing about the fragment is the anterior shift of the dentition. If you note that the snout terminates just about where the mandibular dentition do, this trait hints at a shorter, pudgier, and wider snout. Reply