Chasmaporthetes
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chasmaporthetes-165-4356828
title:
Chasmaporthetes
text:
Chasmaporthetes, also known as hunting or running hyena, is an extinct genus of hyenas distributed in Eurasia, North America, and Africa during the Pliocene-Pleistocene epochs, living from 4.9 million to 780,000 years ago, existing for about 4.12 million years. The genus probably arose from Eurasian Miocene hyenas such as Thalassictis or Lycyaena, with C. borissiaki being the oldest known representative. The species C. ossifragus was the only hyena to cross the Bering land bridge into the Americ
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Extinct genus of carnivores
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasmaporthetes
date created:
2006-01-11T12:28:51Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T08:00:52Z
main entity:
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image:
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fields total:
13
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16