Adcrocuta

Adcrocuta is an extinct genus of terrestrial carnivore in the family Hyaenidae that lived during the Miocene period.[1]

Adcrocuta
Temporal range: Miocene
Skeleton
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Suborder: Feliformia
Family: Hyaenidae
Subfamily: Hyaeninae
Genus: โ€ Adcrocuta
Kretzoi, 1938
A. eximia skull

References

  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.


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