Biology:Pliocrocuta

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Short description: Extinct genus of carnivores

Pliocrocuta
Temporal range: Pliocene–Early Pleistocene
Pliocrocuta perrieri - skull.JPG
Skull
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Hyaenidae
Genus: Pliocrocuta
Kretzoi, 1938
Species
  • Pliocrocuta perrieri
Teeth

Pliocrocuta is an extinct genus of hyena.[1] It contains the species Pliocrocuta perrieri, known from the Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of Eurasia and possibly Africa. It is possibly ancestral to Pachycrocuta.[2]

See also

References

  1. Palombo, M. R.; Sardella, R.; Novelli, M. (2008). "Carnivora dispersal in Western Mediterranean during the last 2.6Ma". Quaternary International 179 (1): 176–189. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2007.08.029. Bibcode2008QuInt.179..176P. 
  2. Iannucci, Alessio; Mecozzi, Beniamino; Sardella, Raffaele; Iurino, Dawid Adam (November 2021). "The extinction of the giant hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris and a reappraisal of the Epivillafranchian and Galerian Hyaenidae in Europe: Faunal turnover during the Early–Middle Pleistocene Transition" (in en). Quaternary Science Reviews 272: 107240. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107240. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0277379121004479. 

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