Panthera tigris acutidens

Panthera tigris acutidens is an extinct tiger subspecies, which was scientifically described in 1928 based on fossils excavated near Wanhsien in southern China's Sichuan Province. Otto Zdansky named it Felis acutidens.[1] After the fossils were re-examined in 1947, they were attributed to Panthera tigris acutidens by Dirk Albert Hooijer and Walter W. Granger.[2]

Panthera tigris acutidens
Temporal range: Late Pliocene - Middle Pleistocene, 2–0.5 Ma
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Felidae
Subfamily: Pantherinae
Genus: Panthera
Species:
P. tigris
Subspecies:
†P. t. acutidens
Trinomial name
Panthera tigris acutidens
(Zdansky, 1928)
Synonyms
  • Felis acutidens Zdansky, 1928

It is also called the 'Wanhsien tiger'.[3]

Description

The P. t. acutidens fossils from Wanhsien in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History consist of two skulls, a humerus, two metacarpals, a tibia, an astragalus, two calcanea, and five metatarsals, and several parts of jaws. The tibia is 29.7 cm (11.7 in) long and 8.1 cm (3.2 in) in diameter. The humerus is 30.6 cm (12.0 in) long and slightly smaller in width, length and diameter than humeri of Siberian tiger.[2]

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See also

References
  1. Zdansky, O. (1928). "Die Säugetiere der Quartärfauna von Chou-K'ou-Tien" [The mammals of the Quaternary Fauna of Chou-K'ou-Tien]. Palaeontologia Sinica, Series C. 5 (4): 1–146, Plates 1–16.
  2. Hooijer, D. A.; Granger, W. (1947). "Pleistocene remains of Panthera tigris (Linnaeus) subspecies from Wanhsien, Szechwan, China, compared with fossil and Recent tigers from other localities" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 1346: 1–18.
  3. Valvert, R. (2014). "The Wanhsien Tiger". Retrieved 20 June 2015.


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