Adcrocuta

Adcrocuta
Temporal range:
Skeleton
Scientific classification Edit this classification
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, National Natural History Museum of China

Adcrocuta is an extinct genus of terrestrial carnivore in the family Hyaenidae that lived in Africa and Eurasia during the Miocene epoch.[1] Like the modern day spotted hyena, Adcrocuta eximia was an obligate carnivore.[2]

  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.
  2. ^ Rivals, Florent; Belyaev, Ruslan I.; Basova, Vera B.; Prilepskaya, Natalya E. (15 May 2024). "A tale from the Neogene savanna: Paleoecology of the hipparion fauna in the northern Black Sea region during the late Miocene". Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 642: 112133. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112133. Retrieved 24 August 2024 – via Elsevier Science Direct.

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