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Hyaena prisca De Serres, 1828

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: early Late Pleistocene (Iannucci et al., 2021)

 

Distribution

Asia & Europe

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Bonifay, M. F. (1973). Principaux gisements paleontologiques Francais du Pleistocene Moyen: Essai de classification. Le Quaternaire 41-50

D. A. E. Garrod and D. M. A. Bate. 1937. The Stone Age of Mount Carmel, Vol. 1. Oxford University Press

Iannucci, Alessio et al. (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. Quaternary Science Reviews 272: 107240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107240 [Abstract]

Kurten B. (1968) Pleistocene Mammals of Europe, 1-317

http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=376860

 

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