Up for sale is a late Miocene hyena Ictitherium lower jaw from Gansu, China!
Ictitherium is an
extinct Hyena which
endemic to
Eurasia and
Africa during the
Middle Miocene through the Early Pliocene and existed approximately 7.4 million years. The animal looked more like civets than modern hyenas, possessing a long body with short legs and a possibly short tail. It is speculated that Ictitherium ate plants as well as medium-small mammals and birds. Ictitherium was a very successful and abundant genus, with multiple fossils often being found at a single site. Possibly, this early hyena genus lived in packs and had a social order, much like its modern descendants.
The lower jaw is measured around 13.6x1.6x5 cm or 5.35x0.629x1.968 inches. The fossil is 100% authentic.
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