Panthera tigris soloensis
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Felidae |
| Subfamily: | Pantherinae |
| Genus: | Panthera |
| Species: | P. tigris |
| Subspecies: | †P. t. soloensis
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| †Panthera tigris soloensis Koenigswald, 1933
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Panthera tigris soloensis, known as the Ngandong tiger,[3] is an extinct subspecies of the modern tiger species. It inhabited the Sundaland region of Indonesia during the Pleistocene epoch.[4]
Discoveries
Ngandong, hence the common name. Only seven fossils are known, making study of the animal difficult.[3]
Description
Some remains of P. t. soloensis suggest that it would have been about the size of a modern Bengal tiger. However, given the size of other remains, it may have been larger than a modern tiger. A large male could have weighed around 400 kg (880 lb), in which case it would have been heavier than the largest extant tiger subspecies,[3] rendering it among the largest felids known to have ever lived.[5]
Paleoecology
In addition to the remains of the Ngandong tiger, many other fossils from the same era have been discovered in Ngandong, like the
Homo erectus soloensis fossils are also known from the area.[6]
See also
- Bornean tiger
- Prehistoric tigers: Panthera tigris trinilensis · Panthera tigris acutidens
- Panthera zdanskyi
References
- ^ Brongersma, L.D. (1935). "Notes on some recent and fossil cats, chiefly from the Malay Archipelago". Zoologische Mededelingen Leiden. XVIII (1): 1–89.
- ISBN 978-1-1395-6080-1.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-0809-4751-8.
- ^ Koenigswald, G. H. R. von (1933). "Beitrag zur Kenntnis der fossilen Wirbeltiere Javas". Wetenschappelijke Mededeelingen Dienst Mijnbouw Nederlansch Oost-Indie 23: 1–127.
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- ^ Djubiantono, T. (2001). "Paleogeography of the Solo area and the Search for Lower and Middle Pleistocene Prehistoric Sites". In Simanjuntak, T.; Prasetyo, B.; Handini, R. (eds.). Sangiran: Man, Culture, and Environment in Pleistocene Times. Jakarta: The National Research Centre of Archaeology. pp. 257–259.