Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

[GrizzlyClaws]

(07-29-2021, 12:34 AM)Spalea Wrote: @GrizzlyClaws :

About #1950: you told:

" The late Pleistocene Chinese tigers and the prime Manchurian tigers were like the T-Rex of the pantherine world.


Always proportionally the widest muzzle/most vaulted skull that enabling to produce the largest canine teeth among the pantherines.

Coincidentally, they were also the largest dominant group among the giant pantherines like the T-Rex did among the theropods.  "


Not agree... Without the human action, from the Siberia till more southern parts of the Asiatic continents, the tiger had perhaps to share their "housing environment " with some extinct Eurasian cave lion's one... Perhaps with the panthera Atrox in Alaska too...
There are too much unknown datas which can allow to pretend that the Pleistocene tigers were unrivaled. OK extinct tigers were undoubtely the greatest panterines, but not by a big margin. If these extinct lions lived in groups, tigers had to deal with them.
And the psychological characteristic don't become ossified.

I made a typo, I wanted to say that "they were the last dominant group of giant pantherines just like the T-Rex was the last dominant theropod".

The Pleistocene lions and Ngandong tigers were some other heavy calibers that predated them.

The late Pleistocene Chinese tigers and the prime Manchrian tigers were also analogical to the T-Rex in many aspects; largest teeth and proportionally widest skull, also being a latecomer. Reply