cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea)

Query: Crocuta crocuta spelaea

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Subject:	cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea)
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Jaw of a hyena found with many other bones of hyenas and other exotic animals in 1822 in a cave in Yorkshire - artist Mary Buckland, née Morland (1797-1857), British palaeontologist
Date 1822
Source http://blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-science/2011/02/11/females-fossils-hyenas-2/
Author Mary Buckland, née Morland (1797-1857)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mary_Buckland01.jpg

The cave hyena or Ice Age spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) was a paleosubspecies of spotted hyena which ranged from the Iberian Peninsula to eastern Siberia. It is one of the best known mammals of the Ice Age and is well represented in many European bone caves.

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