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Percrocuta hebeiensis

Mammalia - Carnivora - Percrocutidae

Taxonomy
Percrocuta hebeiensis was named by Chen and Wu (1976). Its type specimen is IVPP V4830 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Jiulongkou, Ci Xian County, which is in a Miocene terrestrial claystone/sandstone in China.

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
P. senyureki

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1976Percrocuta hebeiensis Chen and Wu pp. 6-7 figs. I: 1a, b

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
—Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
—Tetrapoda
—Reptiliomorpha
—Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
—Cotylosauria()
—Amniota
subclassSynapsida
—Therapsida()
infraorderCynodontia()
—Mammaliamorpha
RankNameAuthor
—Mammaliaformes
classMammalia
—Theriamorpha(Rowe 1993)
—Theriiformes()
—Trechnotheria
—Cladotheria
—Zatheria
subclassTribosphenida()
subclassTheria
—Eutheria()
—Placentalia
—Boreoeutheria
—Laurasiatheria
—Scrotifera
—Ferae()
—CarnivoramorphaWyss and Flynn 1993
—CarnivoraformesFlynn et al.
orderCarnivora
familyPercrocutidaeWerdelin and Solounias 1991
genusPercrocutaKretzoi 1938
specieshebeiensis

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Percrocuta hebeiensis Chen and Wu 1976
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
G. Chen and W. Wu 1976A small Percrocuta; the mandibular symphysis is comparatively steep, the chin is prominent; there are two mandibular foramina below lower P2 and lower P3. Lower premolars are oval in shape, the crowns are high and broad, but more slender than those of P. tungurensis; protoconid (zhujian = main cusp) high, parastylid and metastylid are equally developed; lower P3 relatively slender and small.