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Zeichnung eines Höhlenlöwen aus dem Magdalénien vor etwa 18.000 bis 11.500 Jahren
an einer Felswand der Grotte von Les Combarelles bei Les Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil im
Departement Dordogne (Frankreich), Länge der Zeichnung etwa 70 Zentimeter,
Schulterhöhe ungefähr 68 Zentimeter.
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The Early Middle Pleistocene European Cave
Lion (Panthera leo fossilis)
Panthera leo fossilis, also known as the Early Middle Pleistocene European cave
lion, is an extinct feline of the Pleistocene epoch. It is generally considered to be
an early subspecies of the lion (Panthera leo) (Wikipedia).
With a maximum head and body length of 2.40 meters, which is about half a
meter longer than today's African lions, Panthera leo fossilis was almost as big as
the American lion from the Upper Pleistocene (Wikipedia).
Many bone-fragments of this cat are known from Mosbach in Germany, a small
village, which is now included in the town of Wiesbaden. A nearly complete
skull was found at Mauer, near Heidelberg (Germany). In the same sediment as
the lion-skull was a 550,000-year-old lower jaw from the early hominid Homo
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