Smilodon populator

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(05-28-2022, 06:26 AM)LonePredator Wrote: Do you mean to say that the 15.4 inch was the CBL while the 16.04 inch was the GSL?

And can you please tell me the source of the CBL regression equation which you mentioned?

As @jrocks said, those are two different skulls.

The large "Smilodon bonaerensis 10-1" with a GSL of 408.4 GSL but no CBL, and the Uruguay big one MNHN-P 957 with a GSL of 392 mm in GLS and 379 in CBL.

Honestly, the two skulls are about the same size (just less than 1.7 cm of difference) that they are virtualy of the same size and could be of the same weight.

The formula was created by the Dr Blaire Van Valkenburgh and is in the document of 1990 "Skeletal and dental predictors of body mass in carnivores" (chapter 10), in the book "Body Size in Mammalian Paleobiology: Estimation and Biological Implications". Reply