Adcrocuta is an extinct genus of terrestrial carnivore in the family Hyaenidae that lived in Africa and Eurasia during the Miocene epoch.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Hyaenidae |
| Subfamily: | Hyaeninae |
| Genus: | †Adcrocuta Kretzoi, 1938 |
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A. eximia | |
Distribution
editFossils of A. eximia are known from Bulgaria,[2] Turkey,[3][4] and Kyrgyzstan.[5]
Palaeoecology
editLike the modern day spotted hyena, A. eximia was an obligate carnivore.[6]
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ Kovachev, Dimitar (December 2012). "A complete skeleton of Adcrocuta eximia (Roth and Wagner, 1854) from the Upper Maeotian (Turolian) of Hadzhidimovo, SW Bulgaria" (PDF). Geologica Balcanica. 41 (1–3): 77–95. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
- ^ De Bonis, Louis (31 December 2005). "Carnivora (Mammalia) from the late Miocene of Akkașdağı, Turkey". Geodiversitas. 27 (4): 567–590. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- ^ Sen, Sevket; Saraç, Gerçek (December 2018). "Hyaenidae (Carnivora, Mammalia) from late Miocene and Pliocene of Çalta (Ankara, Turkey)". Revue de Paléobiologie. Retrieved 15 November 2024.
- ^ Miller, Sophie; Barrett, Paul; McLaughlin, Win; Hopkins, Samantha (29 August 2020). "Endemism and migration in the Kochkor Basin? Identification and description of Adcrocuta eximia (Mammalia: Carnivora: Hyaenidae) and c.f. Paramachaerodus (Mammalia: Carnivora: Felidae) fossils at the Miocene locality of Ortok, Kyrgyzstan". Palaeontologia Electronica. doi:10.26879/1033. Retrieved 3 November 2024.
- ^ 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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