Percrocuta

Percrocuta is an extinct genus of percrocutid hyena. It lived in Eurasia and Africa, during the Miocene epoch.

Percrocuta

Werdelin, Lars · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PercrocutidaePBDB
Diet
carnivore, omnivorePBDB, for Carnivora
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Carnivora
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria

Time the record covers

At least 9.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 12.75 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 18 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 23 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 23 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.8–9.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.3–8.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.8–8.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.3–7.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.8–7.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.4–6.9 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences6.9–6.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences6.4–5.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences5.9–5.4 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences5.4–5.0 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.0–4.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.5–4.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.0–3.5 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.5–3.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.0–2.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences12.75 Mya3.6 Mya16.5 Mya2.1 Mya

23 occurrences of Percrocuta on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

23 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

10 formations

Sahabi — 30.14°N, 20.75°EHadar — 11.14°N, 40.58°EUpper Koru Series — 0.23°S, 35.34°EVarswater — 32.96°S, 18.11°EUSNO — 5.35°N, 36.17°EHofuf — 25.68°N, 49.48°EXianshuihe — 43.65°N, 112.66°EHujialiang — 35.58°N, 103.42°ENakali — 1.18°N, 36.37°ENgorora — 0.84°N, 35.83°E

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The named rock units Percrocuta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Percrocuta and its relatives

Miocene

Where Percrocuta and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

520 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Percrocuta, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

19 references

Each of the 23 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 7 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Percrocuta

Credit
Werdelin, Lars
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Percrocuta was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPercrocutidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kretzoi 1938