A large Percrocutid Carnivore from the Late Miocene (ca. 10–9 Ma) of Nakali, Kenya |
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Authors: | Jorge Morales Martin Pickford |
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Institution: | aDepartamento de Paleobiología, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain;bChaire de Paléoanthropologie et de Préhistoire, Collège de France, 11, Place Marcelin-Berthelot, 75231 Paris, France;cDépartement Histoire de la Terre, UMR 5143 du CNRS, Case postale 38, 57, rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France |
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Abstract: | The presence of a large hyaenoid (Hiperhyaena sic leakeyi) from the Late Miocene (Vallesian equivalent) deposits at Nakali, Kenya, was first recorded in 1974, but the fossil on which the announcement was based was not described or figured, nor was a type specimen or type species nominated. The generic and specific names are thus nomina nuda. Howell and Petter (1985) described Hyperhyaena leakeyi, and credited the generic and specific names alternatively to Aguirre and Leakey (1974) and Aguirre and Crusafont in 1974 (the latter paper was never published). Howell and Petter are in fact the authors of both the generic and the specific names. Later in the same paper, Howell and Petter (1985) rejected the name Hyperhyaena and classified the species leakeyi in Allohyaena (Dinocrocuta). The purpose of this paper is to provide more information about the fossil and to discuss its relationships to other percrocutids. It is concluded that it belongs to the genus Percrocuta Kretzoi, 1938, being morphologically similar to the type species Percrocuta carnifex (Pilgrim, 1913) from the Siwaliks of Pakistan. |
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Keywords: | Late Miocene Carnivora Percrocutidae Kenya NakaliMots clé s: Miocè ne supé rieur Carnivora Percrocutidae Kenya Nakali |
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