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cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea)
Subject: cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea)
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Buckland hyena.jpg
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cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea)


English: The geologist William Conybeare drew this cartoon of William Buckland sticking his head into a hyena den to honor Buckland's ground breaking analysis of fossils found at Kirkdale cave.
English: Paleontology
English: History of science
Date 1822
Source From an 1894 book by Elizabeth Gordon, The Life and Correspondence of William Buckland, at Google Books
Author William Conybeare
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buckland_hyena.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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