Skulls, Skeletons, Canines & Claws

[johnny rex]

(10-01-2017, 10:52 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote:

(10-01-2017, 10:47 AM)johnny rex Wrote: If this particular male tiger is an Indian specimen, there is no doubt that a large male Siberian tiger will attained a much larger skull.

The huge skull from China seems to belong to the Amur lineage.

Thus, the skull got a rounder feature and broader snout/muzzle.

(10-01-2017, 11:29 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote:

(10-01-2017, 11:13 AM)johnny rex Wrote: What are your guesses regarding the measurements of the particular prehistoric Amur tiger skull, @GrizzlyClaws?

The robusticity is the remarkable feature that shares by both prehistoric skull and 2 inches wide canine tooth.

For that prehistoric skull, Guate previously made an estimation of 17.5 inches long and 11.5 inches wide, but it turns out that his estimation may still be too conservative and too low for the actual skull. Since the prehistoric skull made the 11.5 inches wide captive Bengal skull looks gracile in comparison, if you agree with my assertion. The robust features of the prehistoric skull looks unmatched in any comparison with other prehistoric felines, even @peter has been expressed his impression many times about the remarkable robusticity of that particular prehistoric skull.

The 2 inches wide canine tooth is without a doubt another mind-boggling piece of evidence. The magnitude of the canine width exceeds that of the Smilodon populator's upper canine teeth, and the canine thickness of the conical-toothed pantherine cats absolutely prevail over the thin/blade shaped sabertooth fangs. Only a super robust big cat can possess this kind of monstrous canine teeth.

I always got the impression that the old school Amur tigers perhaps possessed the unmatched robusticity that has become gradually lost among the modern Amur tigers.

If the largest skulls of Panthera atrox or Panthera fossilis could reach 12 inches in zygomatic width and possibly 19 inches in length then, I think, the largest skulls of prehistoric Panthera t. altaica could reach those sizes. Reply