Kingdom Animalia Order Carnivora Genus Panthera Rank Subspecies | Phylum Chordata Family Felidae Higher classification Tiger | |
Similar Tiger, Felidae, Ngandong tiger, Mammal, Panthera palaeosinensis | ||
The Trinil tiger (Panthera tigris trinilensis) is an extinct tiger subspecies dating from about 1.2 million years ago that was found at the locality of Trinil, Java, Indonesia. The fossil remains are now stored in the Dubois Collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Leiden, the Netherlands. Although these fossils have been found on Java, the Trinil tiger is probably not a direct ancestor of the Javan tiger. The Trinil tiger probably became extinct 50,000 years ago. The Bali tiger was also not closely related to the Trinil because of their time differences.
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