It inhabited the Sundaland region of Indonesia during the Pleistocene epoch.

[4] Fossils of P. t. soloensis were excavated primarily near the village of Ngandong, hence the common name.

[3] Some remains of P. t. soloensis suggest that it would have been about the size of a modern Bengal tiger.

A large male could have weighed around 400 kg (880 lb), in which case it would have been heavier than the largest extant tiger subspecies,[3] rendering it among the largest felids known to have ever lived.

[6] In addition to the remains of the Ngandong tiger, many other fossils from the same era have been discovered in Ngandong, like the proboscideans Stegodon trigonocephalus and Elephas hysudrindicus, the bovines Bubalus palaeokerabau and Bos palaesondaicus, the extant perissodactyls Tapirus indicus and Rhinoceros sondaicus, and a great variety of cervine species.