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11-19-2018, 11:31 PM( This post was last modified: 11-19-2018, 11:38 PM by GrizzlyClaws )
(11-19-2018, 10:38 PM)tigerluver Wrote: A tall, robust mandible very well may be a trait of primitive cats. See how tall P. zdanskyi is in the mandible even though its skull is long and narrow:
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The Padang specimen was relatively young, only no more than 50,000 years old.
Morphologically, the shape of its mandible was already starting to shift toward the modern tiger. And I assume the mandibular shape of the much older Ngandong tiger would be somewhat closer to Panthera zdanskyi.