Dinocrocuta is a genus of carnivorous mammals from the extinct hyena-like family of percrocutids . They lived in Asia and in Africa, in the Miocene era. They had very strong jaws capable of grinding bones [1] [2] .
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 Dinocrocuta gigantea , reconstruction | ||||||||||||||
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| Dinocrocuta Schmidt-Kittler, 1975 |
Representatives of the genus weighed up to about 400 kg [3] .
Views
- Dinocrocuta gigantea
- Dinocrocuta macrodonta
Illustrations
Skull Dinocrocuta gigantea
Skull Dinocrocuta macrodonta
Notes
- ↑ TSENG ZHIJIE JACK. Cranial function in a late Miocene Dinocrocuta gigantea (Mammalia: Carnivora) revealed by comparative finite element analysis // Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. - 2008. - December 17 ( t. 96 , No. 1 ). - S. 51-67 . - ISSN 0024-4066 . - DOI : 10.1111 / j.1095-8312.2008.01095.x .
- ↑ TSENG, ZHIJIE JACK; BINDER, WENDY J. Mandibular biomechanics of Crocuta crocuta , Canis lupus , and the late Miocene Dinocrocuta gigantea (Carnivora, Mammalia) (Eng.) // Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society : journal. - Oxford University Press , 2010 .-- March ( vol. 158 , no. 3 ). - P. 683–696 . - DOI : 10.1111 / j.1096-3642.2009.00555.x .
- ↑ Deng, Tao; Tseng, Zhijie J. Osteological evidence for predatory behavior of the giant percrocutid (Dinocrocuta gigantea) as an active hunter (Eng.) // Chinese Science Bulletin: journal. - 2010 .-- Vol. 55 , no. 17 . - P. 1790-1794 . - DOI : 10.1007 / s11434-010-3031-9 .