. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 102 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM direct relationship between Percrocuta and Crocuta. Another opinion on the origins of Crocuta was recently expressed by Ficcarelli & Torre (1970), who concluded that this genus had an independent history dating back to the Miocene. This view is apparently at least partly based on the belief that C. honanensis Zdansky, 1924 from China is early Pliocene in age. No explanation is given of the otherwise complete absence of Crocuta in the Miocene and Pliocene, ti
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. 102 ANNALS OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM direct relationship between Percrocuta and Crocuta. Another opinion on the origins of Crocuta was recently expressed by Ficcarelli & Torre (1970), who concluded that this genus had an independent history dating back to the Miocene. This view is apparently at least partly based on the belief that C. honanensis Zdansky, 1924 from China is early Pliocene in age. No explanation is given of the otherwise complete absence of Crocuta in the Miocene and Pliocene, times when the fossil record of hyaenids is by no means poor. Another African record of Percrocuta is P. algeriensis, which was described by Arambourg (1959) as a species of Hyaena. Ewer (1967) also regarded it as an Hyaena, and while Ficcarelli & Torre (1970) had doubts about its relationships, they refer to it as Hyaena algeriensis in their text. Thenius's (1966) grouping of this species with Percrocuta is accepted here (Fig. 18), since this is its most. Fig. 18. Tentative phylogeny of the genus Percrocuta. (Adapted from Thenius 1966.). Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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