Beringian tigers and steppe lion stripes

Two steppe lion dentaries misidentified as "Beringian tigers", AMNH F:AM 69006 (a) and AMNH F:AM 69016 (b), from Herrington (1986). In her 1986 doctoral dissertation, Sandra Herrington proposed that a distinct subspecies of tiger (Panthera tigris) lived in Alaska during the late Pleistocene. Although she did not formally name this subspecies, she called it the …

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