pachycrocuta造句

• The ancestors of the genus " Crocuta " diverged from " Pachycrocuta brevirostris ", the giant short-faced hyena.
• Sometimes included in this genus ( as " Pachycrocuta bellax " ) is the extinct giant striped hyaena, " Hyaena bellax ".
• It has been proposed that " Pachycrocuta " was out-competed and driven to extinction by the spotted hyena, which was formerly present in Eurasia as well as Africa.
• This was supported by the presence of two extinct hyenid species found in the Member 3 Grey breccia material, " Pachycrocuta brevirostris " and " Hyaena makapani ", as well as the abundance of hyena coprolites within these layers ( which had been well-known at the time ).