Ictitherium
Sign in to saveIctitherium (meaning "weasel beast") is an extinct genus belonging to the family Hyaenidae and the subfamily Ictitheriinae erected by Trouessart in 1897. Ictitherium lived throughout Eurasia during the Late Miocene.
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- Parent taxon
- Hyaenidae
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- Ictitherium viverrinum.JPG
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- taxon name
- Ictitherium
- taxon rank
- genus
- temporal range start
- Middle Miocene
- temporal range end
- Zanclean
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Ictitherium (meaning "weasel beast") is an extinct genus belonging to the family Hyaenidae and the subfamily Ictitheriinae erected by Trouessart in 1897. Ictitherium lived throughout Eurasia during the Late Miocene.
==Description== Ictitherium were mid-sized gracile hyenas around long. Their morphology is convergent with that of the maned wolf, with long, stilt-like gracile legs that likely helped it stride through the tall grass of the savannas and grasslands it inhabited.
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