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No Where Else on Earth-Almost Totally Original Beautiful American Lion Skeleton ( Skull -Alaska)
Species : Panthera ATROX Lion
Species Description : The American lion evolved from the earlier Panthera leo fossilis, which I have from Europe, and this skull is believed to be the best specimen ever found an American Lion.. It was believed to be 250,000 years ago when it first came to Alaska over Bering Strait with earlier lions as old as 500,000 years old even though only bits and pieces up to 350,000 years have been found. Also DNA shows this to be identical to Cave Lion so they are identical species in my opinion. This is the largest Lion that ever lived much larger than African Lions with skulls up to 16-18 inches over 15% larger. It is roamed in Alaska, California at La Brea and Florida with traces in S Carolina. It is the largest carnivore ever except Short-face Bear which I also have a skull. The cave lion is the exact species actually
Geographic Period : Late Pleistocene Epoch 60,000- 30,000
Geographic time: 60,000-30,000 years ago
Item Location : Gold Mine(Cave) Close to Fairbanks, Alaska, Florida –verts and ribs
Item rating and description : 1-10 *11 Words really don’t match how great, wonderful, awe inspiring, magnificent this American Lion Skeleton is . It’s 11 ft 9 inches long and if tale wasn’t up it would be over 12 ft long. Its amazing 56 ” high also with 28” at widest . It is 99% Original bone from no more than 4 American Lion individuals . Keep in mind no more than maybe 10 exist in the world and this is one of best except La Brea tarpits . I called them. They have 5 but not one is from one animal but many put together from bones . Mine all the verts and ribs are one animal. The 17” skull is from one, and the inner major bones are all from same lion also. Anyway the feet are from another one. So this is by far one of best American Lions in the world by far. The skull is 99 % original bone and according to many many top people in the field It’s maybe the best anywhere. The American Lion to be is the absolute height of the fossil world as I’d rather have that as it’s rarer than Smilodon material and I love saber-tooth cats. No one has this, not even the American natural History Museum as they have a skull only. I feel like the luckiest person in the world as I’ll enjoy for years. Skulls are unheard of and bones also. My best friend a cat expert who does books, has all the sabercats, but not one American Lion. The American lion skeleton is the most prized fossil in the world . Even the claws are huge modern lion as no American lion exists and this took a long time to get huge claws . The sheaths are all original sheaths from American lions some repaired with other lion sheaths to make them whole A few sheaths are have modern lion parts but mostly America Lion .It took me 10 years to gather 3-4 animals to do this . I say this is one of best anywhere ever done . I will be enjoying this for years. This one appears to be at least 60,000 years old . NO museum, no private collector known has a better complete skull as this is almost perfect . The teeth canines are all original teeth . A few were repaired. I searched the entire country for years to get the right skeleton with many wasted bones that didn’t work The measurements of all the bones matches a 17 “ female skull. The teeth were repaired and just 2 from other same size American Lion but all teeth are present. I don’t want to even find fault with this skull and skeleton because there is so little not original . It should be looked at whole as its so good. Any you find it would be lucky to find a 50% skeleton with rest fake bone. This is 98% at least . Basically only the shoulder blades has any amount of restore at all as it was done by the nation’s best prepper, my dear friend who is the smartest man in the world who knows everything on skulls of cats. Even a perfectionist can’t find fault with this . You would have to be an unhappy person to even try to find something wrong here. I only see beauty and you will too I’m sure. To be it’s the best ever found. Unfortunately, I don’t have it at my home for some time is the only negative but hope to few it in a few years . The originality is spectacular as you will never find more lion bone on any skeleton anywhere. I can’t believe it . Its too amazing I can’t describe the emotional feeling of ownership of this cat. It doesn’t get any better. IM so lucky. What preservation this cat shows. Darker color indicates age or location found so this is amazing as this is darker than normal It will be in my collection for a long time even though I have many people would pay a fortune for this. Money is not important on an animal like this to be viewed over and over. You can’t even put a price on this as it’s priceless, but everything is for sale sometime maybe if a huge amount is offered in later years Ill relent. But that is years away. I tried to put words on this but this is undescribeable so look at pics. Simply Awesome. The pics are amazing. Its mine forever to look at. NO trying to buy it please You cant assign a value . Nothing was spared including huge costs to me to make this all Lion . In fact it costs me 15,000 for claws and American Lion Sheaths alone -extremely rare due to huge size of claws just like an American lion-some partial American lion claws were inside sheaths so those were kept intact also . It’s being stored at a warehouse in Maryland There are again only a few in the World outside of LaBrea Tarpits and they are also from a variety of American Lions Displayed in jumping attacking position . Value minimum of $500,000 Not for sale . Plan on keeping many years as if your a fossil lover nothing beats this
If offered $500,000 Id probably sell no less
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