Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

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(07-21-2021, 08:05 AM)tigerluver Wrote: The cave lion did get the wider skulls so there is some convergence there. My issue with the canine is that in literature, the eastern Late Pleistocene cave lion is small by cave lion standards. This paper covered a good selection of specimens and this paper covered the larger skulls which still don't exceed 360 mm. Of course, the canine could be from a different time period.

If we look at this figure from Christiansen (2007) (PM for the paper) we do the tiger has longer, thinner canines:

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Sumatran Tiger, generally a Tigers canine will be longer  and wider from similarly sized cats, especially at the root. The canine in question looks like a mix between both Lions/Tigers although I lean more towards a lions shape. Reply