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This was supposed to be part of a larger piece, which I lost due to my PC crashing when Photoshop was opening (See: here and here ), so I just took what separate components I still had (in this case - this cat) and made this quick piece using some of the many brushes I downloaded from DA, whose origins I have forgotten.
Anyway, this is a Cromerian lion, sometimes known as the Mosbach lion, or, if you wish to be posh, Early Middle Pleistocene European/Eurasian cave lion, known by the scientific name, Panthera spelaea fossilis. Most would refer to this guy as Panthera leo fossilis, but after recent genetic analysis placing later cave lions as a separate species Panthera spelaea, and setting back the date of divergence, I think it's more likely that this cat was a separate species from the modern lion.
This was the largest cat, and probably the largest carnivore, in Europe during the Cromerian interglacial, 866,000 - 478,000 years ago, and the ancestor of the later cave lion.

Description
This was supposed to be part of a larger piece, which I lost due to my PC crashing when Photoshop was opening (See: here and here ), so I just took what separate components I still had (in this case - this cat) and made this quick piece using some of the many brushes I downloaded from DA, whose origins I have forgotten.
Anyway, this is a Cromerian lion, sometimes known as the Mosbach lion, or, if you wish to be posh, Early Middle Pleistocene European/Eurasian cave lion, known by the scientific name, Panthera spelaea fossilis. Most would refer to this guy as Panthera leo fossilis, but after recent genetic analysis placing later cave lions as a separate species Panthera spelaea, and setting back the date of divergence, I think it's more likely that this cat was a separate species from the modern lion.
This was the largest cat, and probably the largest carnivore, in Europe during the Cromerian interglacial, 866,000 - 478,000 years ago, and the ancestor of the later cave lion.