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Is This A Cave Lion Jaw?


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Is this cave lion jaw? There is restoration to the tip of the canine, the rest of fossil is natural. Is this rare in this condition?

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Do you have a picture looking straight down on the tooth surface?  Multiple pictures from different perspectives always helps.

 

 

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As @caldigger says, a photo of the chewing surface is useful.

On the photos below i show you my tooth of cave lion to compare yours with it. The problem is that the molars of the cave hyena looks very much about it.

So, a close-up of the different teeth you have on that jaw would also be very useful.

 

Cheers, Sophie.

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And also a scale of both the jaw and each tooth in long, height and large.

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"On ne voit bien que par le coeur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"We only well see with the heart, the essential is invisible for the eyes."

 

In memory of Doren

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Sorry I'm jumping in the thread, but I have some useful references with pictures to compare your specimen. :)
Beside the occlusal view of the teeth, lingual and labial views of the mandible are necessary to a correct ID, as it was said before.

 

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excerpt from Baryshnikov, Gennady & Petrova, E.A.. 2008. Cave lion (Panthera spelaea) from the Pleistocene of Chuvashiya, European Russia. Russian Journal of Theriology. 7(1): 33-40

 

 

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excerpt from Sotnikova, Marina & Foronova, Irina. 2014. First Asian record of Panthera (Leo) fossilis (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae) in the Early Pleistocene of Western Siberia, Russia. Integrative Zoology. 9: 517-530

 

 

 

 

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