Ngandong Tiger (Panthera Tigris soloensis)

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(02-02-2022, 01:51 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: Maybe the largest specimen for the Ngandong tiger got a 18 inches skull, and 19 inches for the giant Bornean tiger.

Maybe the Ngandong tiger got proportionally smaller skull compared to the giant Bornean tiger, but it cannot have a skull size of a modern tiger.

Honestly we still can't know which could be the largest skull from this subspecies/populations, specially by the fact that we have so few fossils.

For the giant mandible from Borneo definitelly it had a huge skull, bigger than any recorded or estimated for the Ngandong tiger. Now for this last one, only the specimen from the mandible (Watualang) and the Femur (Ngandong) probably had a bigger skull than the one that we already have. Now, how big? That is the question, and for the mandible remember that we estimated an skull GL of c.393 mm using real measurement and a strong correlation formula (Check here, post 1,187).

Now, for the femur, we have only three tigers with both, skull and femur, to get a value (c.445 mm in GLS), but the relation is very poor (r=34), so is very unlikely that we can get an accurate reconstruction using only these specimens. Now, I was using real tiger skeltons and measure them in Photoshop to get an idea of what could be the skull of a tiger with a femur of 480 mm. The only problem is that only two skeletons are known hy its sex and age, while the others are unknown, so also the resulting value will be only suggestive and not 100% reliable. Reply