Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 37(1) 1994

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VOL 37(1) 1994

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Systematics, Mammalia, Carnivora, Hyaenidae, Allohyaena, late Miocene, Ukraine

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Allohyaena sarmatica (Carnivora, Mammalia) a new hyaenid species from the late Miocene of the Ukraine

• Yuriy A. SEMENOV

Abstract:

A new species of hyaenids is described on the basis of the materials from cave deposits of middle Sarmatian (early Vallesian) age found at Gritsev, in the Ukraine. Allohyaena sarmatica sp. nov. is the least specialized member of the subgenus Allohyaena KRETZOI, 1938. Its premolars are narrower, the talonid of its M₁ longer and the metaconid of M₁ less reduced than in the type species A. (A.) kadici KRETZOI, 1938 from the late Vallesian of Hungary and A.(A.) minor (Ozansoi, 1965) from the late? Astaracian of Turkey.