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The Crocuta Crocuta Spelaea (Goldfuss 1823) Population From The Early Late Pleistocene Hyena Open Air Prey Deposit Site Biedensteg (Bad Wildungen, Hess, Nw Germany), A Contribution To Their Phylogenetic Position, Coprolites And Prey, Cajus G. Diedrich Jan 2006

The Crocuta Crocuta Spelaea (Goldfuss 1823) Population From The Early Late Pleistocene Hyena Open Air Prey Deposit Site Biedensteg (Bad Wildungen, Hess, Nw Germany), A Contribution To Their Phylogenetic Position, Coprolites And Prey, Cajus G. Diedrich

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Four skulls, three lower jaws, a few incomplete postcranial bones and many coprolites of the early Late Pleistocene (Early Weichselian, 90,000 – 65,000 BP) ice age spotted hyena open air prey deposit site Biedensteg at Bad Wildungen (Hessia, NW-Germany) all show crack-, bite- and nibbling-marks as a result of cannibalism. Originally, the bones belong to three young adult to adult individuals. For the first time in Europe, a skull and postcranial bones belonging to a young animal of C. c. spelaea (Goldfuss 1823) of only a few days or weeks old are described and figured. The animal was possibly killed …