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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
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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 …