Biology:Adcrocuta

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Short description: Extinct genus of carnivores

Adcrocuta
Temporal range: Miocene
Adcrocuta eximia, Asenovgrad.JPG
Skeleton
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Hyaenidae
Subfamily: Hyaeninae
Genus: Adcrocuta
Kretzoi, 1938
Species

A. eximia

A. eximia skull

Adcrocuta is an extinct genus of terrestrial carnivore in the family Hyaenidae that lived in Africa & Eurasia during the Miocene period.[1]

References

  1. Werdelin, L.; Solounias, N. (1990). "Studies of fossil hyaenids: The genus Adcrocuta Kretzoi and the interrelationships of some hyaenid taxa". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 98 (4): 363. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1990.tb01206.x. 

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