Mammalia - Carnivora - Percrocutidae
Parent taxon: Percrocutidae according to L. Werdelin and S. Peigne 2010
See also Carroll 1988, Hendey 1974, Pickford et al. 2000 and Qiu and Cao 1988
Sister taxa: Dinocrocuta, Pseudailurus
Subtaxa: Percrocuta australis Percrocuta carnifex Percrocuta hebeiensis Percrocuta miocenica Percrocuta primordialis Percrocuta tobieni Percrocuta xixiaensis
Type: Hyaena carnifex
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore-omnivore
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Ethiopia (3 collections), South Africa (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of South Africa (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), China (4), Kenya (3), Libya (3), Moldova (1), the Russian Federation (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia (1), Türkiye (1)
Total: 22 collections including 23 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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