  panthera leo spelaea or p. spelaea, commonly known as the european or eurasian cave lion, is an extinct subspecies of lion. it is known from fossils and many examples of prehistoric art. ==classifications==  the cave lion is sometimes considered a species in its own right, under the name panthera spelaea,christiansen, per (december 2008): "phylogeny of the great cats (felidae: pantherinae), and the influence of fossil taxa and missing characters" cladistics 24.6:977-992(16) and at least one authority, basing his conclusion on a comparison of skull shapes, considers the cave lion to be more closely related to the tiger, which would result in the formal name panthera tigris spelaea.groiss, j. th. (1996): "der hÃ¶hlentiger  panthera tigris spelaea (goldfuss)". neues jahrbuch fÃ¼r geologie und palÃ¤ontologie 7 : 399â414. however, recent genetic research shows that among extant felids it was most closely related to the modern lion and that it formed a single population with the beringian cave lion, which has bee
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