Trinil tiger
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| Pleistocene | ||||||||||||
| 1.2 million years | ||||||||||||
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| Panthera tigris trinilensis | ||||||||||||
| Dubois , 1908 |
The Trinil tiger Panthera tigris trinilensis is an extinct subspecies of the tiger ( Panthera tigris ). He lived on the Indonesian island of Java during the Pleistocene and belonged to the so-called Trinil fauna . The differences between the Panthera tigris acutidens, which was common on the Asian continent at the same time, and the subspecies of the tiger living today are large enough to classify it as an independent fossil subspecies. It is probably not a direct ancestor of the Java tiger , which presumably descends from animals that immigrated from China much later. Probably the Trinil Tiger was on average slightly less than the approximately in size to the South China Tiger appropriate Panthera tigris acutidens . However, some specimens from Ngandong and Watoealang were very large and reached the dimensions of the Indian tiger .
In contrast to the mainland, the finds of fossil tigers on Java are quite numerous and they are among the best known, along with those in eastern China. The Trinil tiger was described by Eugène Dubois in 1908 . The type specimen comes from the 1.2 million year old deposits from the Trinil area . Dubois had previously discovered the Java man at the same site . Today this specimen is in the Naturalis Museum of Natural History in Leiden . Leo Daniel Brongersma treated the fossil finds of the tiger on Java in detail in 1935 and he found it in 1937 among the fauna of the Djamboe and Sibrambang caves on Sumatra . In 1971 Helmut Hemmer devoted himself to the fossil finds of the tiger on Java.
literature
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- Vratislav Mazák : The tiger. Panthera tigris . 5th, unchanged edition. Westarp Sciences, Hohenwarsleben 2004, ISBN 3-89432-759-6 (reprint of the 3rd edition from 1983).
- LW van den Hoek: Javan Tiger. Ruthlessly hunted down . In: 300 Pearls. Museum highlights of natural diversity .
Further literature
- Eugène Dubois: The geological age of the Kendengoder Trinil fauna . In: Tijdschrift van het Koninklijke Nedeerlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap . 2 Series 24, 1908, pp. 1235-1271 .
- Leo Daniel Brongersma: Notes on some recent and fossil cats, chiefly from the Malay Archipelago . In: Zoologische Mededelingen . tape 18 , 1935, pp. 1-89 .
- Leo Daniel Brongersma: Notes on fossil and prehistoric remains of “Felidae” from Java and Sumatra . In: Comptes Rendus du XIIe Congrès Internacional de Zoologie (Lisboa, 1935) . 1937, p. 1855-1865 .
- Helmut Hemmer: Fossil mammals of Java. II. On the fossil history of the tiger ( Panthera tigris (L.)) in Java . In: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen . Ser. B. 74, no. 1 , 1971, p. 35-52 .