The Cave Lion (Panthera spelaea and Panthera fossilis)

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(03-04-2019, 04:47 AM)epaiva Wrote:

(03-04-2019, 02:05 AM)GrizzlyClaws Wrote: Waveriders' study about the Cave lions; Panthera fossilis max skull up to 21 inches, and Panthera spelaea up to 20 inches.


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Huge incredible skulls, thanks for sharing 

IMO, it was probably a little bit inflated.

Since this fragmented humerus was probably the largest documented fossil for any Pleistocene lion, definitely outsized the 192 mm MT3 which was used to predict the largest specimen by Waveriders, and according to @tigerluver, this humerus could probably couple with a 500 mm skull max.

So the largest Pleistocene lion skull probably measured up to 500 mm.

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