Percrocutidae

Percrocutidae is an extinct family of hyena-like feliform carnivorans endemic to Asia, Africa, and Southern Europe from the Middle Miocene through the Pliocene, existing for about .

The first percrocutids are known from the middle Miocene of Europe and western Asia and belonged to the genus Percrocuta. Percrocuta already had large premolars, but did not carry such a massive bite as the later form Dinocrocuta, from the later Miocene. Originally, these carnivores were placed with the hyenas in the family Hyaenidae. , most scientists considered the Percrocutidae to be a distinct family that evolved their morphology similar to hyenas due convergent evolution, - although they are usually placed sister-taxa/immediate outgroup to Hyaenidae. Sometimes it was placed with the family Stenoplesictidae into the superfamily Stenoplesictoidea. A 2022 study placed Dinocrocuta and Percrocuta as true hyaenids, which if correct would invalidate the family Percrocutidae.