Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

[Panthera]

Although Formosan clouded leopards have been recorded by Robert Swinhoe in 1862 (hand drawing) who described a "skin (fur)" of a clouded leopard from Formosa island (Taiwan), no physical photographs of living clouded leopard have been taken since they were published for 160 years.

Now, only evidence that clouded leopards probably exist is many aboriginal people have fur clothes been kept (found mainly among the Paiwan, Rukai and Puyuma tribes, aboriginal peoples of southern Taiwan.), so a hypothesis consider that there are no clouded leopards in Taiwan, and become increasingly popular in the last decade, this hypothesis also consider the clouded leopard furs clothes of the aboriginal villages came from early trade with (mainland) Southeast Asia.

That's why it's important to find a fossil or a material legacy(bone) of the clouded leopard in Taiwan. The best situation is finding clouded leopard fossil from outcrop in "nature" rather than human archaeological site. 

It is a Felidae canine (47 mm) which found at Guishan human archaeological site(1.6-1.3 ka) in southern of Taiwan island. It is probably a clouded leopard canine or not.
Any thought about this canine?

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