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The Cave Lion (Panthera spelaea and Panthera fossilis)

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The Cave Lion (Panthera spelaea and Panthera fossilis)

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11-02-2018, 01:25 AM ( This post was last modified: 11-02-2018, 03:00 AM by GuateGojira )

(10-28-2018, 06:12 PM)Smilodon-Rex Wrote: Panthera atrox and Panthera fossils are the real and pure lion,  however, Panthera spelea may the hybrid lion species which continued other Panthera linage ? especially when spelaea developed into later Pleistocene,  the similarities between Cave lion(Panthera spelea) and tiger(Panthera tiger）may equivalent to jaguar(Panthera onca）and leopard(Panthera pardus）

Nop, Panthera atrox and Panthera fossilis are not lions at all. These are completelly diferent species of animals, closelly related with lions just like the Longdang "tiger" Panthera zdanskyi is related with the true modern tiger Panthera tigris, but are not the same species or even subspecies.

Panthera spelaea is not a hybrid, but a diferent crono-species related with Panthera fossilis, that evolved in Eurasia. 

The similarities between cave lion "spelaea" and the modern tiger are just primitivism inhered from Panthera fossilis. Even Panthera atrox still have some of thos characteristics, but that doesn't mean that these are "tigers" at all.
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