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(12-27-2016, 08:55 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: This particular skull belongs to a Barbary lion, maybe it could have proportionally longer canine teeth than the normal African lions?
Since the Barbary lions were solitary hunters, and they could have evolved with longer canine teeth.
The average Christiansen and Harris (2005) data on crown height:CBL produce a skull of over 400 mm in just CBL. Even the highest canine height to CBL ratio they have produces a CBL of 370+ mm for the canine we have here. So perhaps there is something up here.