Smilodon populator

[jrocks]

(05-16-2022, 11:56 PM)GuateGojira Wrote:

(05-13-2022, 09:01 AM)jrocks Wrote: for the one that i said peter lund estimated a specimen and got a figure of around 500 kg, i unfortunately dont have any images of that estimation, i only know because a guy named mojave on carnivora mentioned it, it was a fossil from Lagoa Santa, MG, Brazil. If you look up the fire that happened to that museum it does mention that a smilodon populator fossil got destroyed, however i just cant find any images of that fossil. I was just curious as to how these 3 specimens of populator compared in size to the 405 mm humerus and the 408.4 mm skull, or those 2 as the lund one may be pretty hard to find

I can't see the images of Carnivora for this poster Mojave. May you please put them here? Also, as I said before, we need evidence of that claim about the destroyed specimens, because this is the first time that I hear this and sound like an internet myth, but I will like to give the benefit of the doubt if evidence is presented.

As far I remember the longest humerus from S. populator is of 395 mm, one of 405 mm will be impressive.

heres a link with an image of the specimen in the rio de janero museum before the museum got destroyed in a big fire in 2018, there is a mixture of the original bones and replica ones and it doesnt really say which ones are the original and what their measurements are, i asked mojave on the carnivora page what the measurements were of the remains of this specimen but he hasnt given a reply yet, so i guess for now i wont count that one. also, this was the only specimen that was destroyed, i dont think the other 2 that i mentioned are destroyed, if i did say they were my bad on that

https://news.mongabay.com/2018/09/a-braz...seum-fire/

as for the 405 mm humerus i mentioned earlier, tigerluver said earlier in this thread that there was a 405 humerus from kerten and werdelin in 1990, so thats where i found out the 405 mm humerus from. also, do you know if there are any images of the 408.4 mm skull Reply