Adcrocuta
Sign in to saveleft|thumb|A. eximia skull, National Natural History Museum of China Adcrocuta is an extinct genus of large hyena that lived in Africa and Eurasia during the Miocene epoch.
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- Distribution and chronology
- Description
- Palaeoecology
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left|thumb|A. eximia skull, National Natural History Museum of China Adcrocuta is an extinct genus of large hyena that lived in Africa and Eurasia during the Miocene epoch.
== Distribution and chronology == Fossils of A. eximia are known from across Eurasia during the Vallesian-Turolian age of the Late Miocene (around 9.6-4.9 million years ago), spanning from Europe, including Spain, North Macedonia, France, Romania, Greece, Hungary, Germany, Austria, Ukraine, and Bulgaria, and Asia including Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Iran, China, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
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