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Dinocrocuta
| Dinocrocuta Temporal range:
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| D. gigantea skull, National Natural History Museum of China | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Carnivora |
| Suborder: | Feliformia |
| Family: | Hyaenidae |
| Subfamily: | †Percrocutinae |
| Genus: | †Dinocrocuta Schmidt-Kittler, 1976 |
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Dinocrocuta is an extinct genus of large percrocutid. It lived in Eurasia and Africa during the late Miocene epoch. It had very strong jaws that were able to crush bones.[1][2] It considerably exceeded the size of living hyenas.
- ^ Tseng, Z. J. (2008). "Cranial function in a late Miocene Dinocrocuta gigantea (Mammalia: Carnivora) revealed by comparative finite element analysis". Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 96: 51–67. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2008.01095.x.
- ^ Tseng, Zhijie Jack; Binder, Wendy J. (March 2010). "Mandibular biomechanics of Crocuta crocuta, Canis lupus, and the late Miocene Dinocrocuta gigantea (Carnivora, Mammalia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 158 (3): 683–696. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00555.x.
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